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Definition of inoculant in English English dictionary
- The active material used in an inoculation; an inoculum
- An alloyant used to refine grains in a cast macrostructure
- A special culture of nitrogen-fixing bacteria used to treat legume seeds and thus ensure their nitrogen-fixing ability
- Legumes fix nitrogen, making it available for itself and other plants On its roots are pinkish nodules wherein the legume participates in a mutually beneficial relationship with soilborne bacteria The bacteria make nitrogen fixation possible The soil where a legume is planted does not necessarily harbor the bacteria necessary for fixation and so must be inoculated with it The inoculant contains the bacteria It can be purchased in powdered or granular form and applied directly to the soil (and sometimes to the legume seed itself) Each legume has its own, specialized bacteria If you suspect that the soil lacks the necessary bacteria, pull up a legume plant and look for the nodules; if you have trouble seeing any, the soil may need inoculation
- A commercial preparation, often but not always based on peat, that is used to introduce rhizobia into soils Inoculants may be seed applied or introduced directly to the soil
- {i} inoculum, substance used in the creation of an inoculation
- Materials, which when added to molten metal, modify the structure and thereby change the physical and mechanical properties
- a substance (a virus or toxin or immune serum) that is introduced into the body to produce or increase immunity to a particular disease