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antibiosis

[an″te-, an″ti-bi-o´sis]

1. an association between two populations of organisms that is detrimental to one of them.

2. a relationship between an organism and an antibiotic produced by another.

an·ti·bi·o·sis

(an'tē-bī-ō'sis),

1. An association of two organisms that is detrimental to one of them, in contrast to probiosis.

2. Production of an antibiotic by bacteria or other organisms inhibitory to other living things, especially among soil microbes.

[anti- + G. biōsis, life]

antibiosis

/an·ti·bi·o·sis/ (-bi-o´sis) an association between two organisms that is detrimental to one of them, or between one organism and an antibiotic produced by another.

antibiosis

(ăn′tē-bī-ō′sĭs, ăn′tī-)

1. An association between two or more organisms that is detrimental to at least one of them.

2. The antagonistic association between an organism and the metabolic substances produced by another.

an·ti·bi·o·sis

(an'tē-bī-ō'sis)

1. An association of two organisms that is detrimental to one of them, in contrast to probiosis.

2. Production of an antibiotic by bacteria or other organisms inhibitory to other living things, especially among soil microbes.

[anti- + G. biōsis, life]

antibiosis

an association between two populations of organisms that is detrimental to one of them, or between one organism and an antibiotic produced by another.

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The effect of abiotic growing conditions on antibiosis by extracts of thymus vulgaris

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Registration of two sugarcane germplasm clones with low levels of antibiosis to the sugarcane borer (Lepidoptera: Crambidae).

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Isolation and identification of Ice-nucleating--active bacteria and their antagonistic bacteria from pistachio trees in Rafsanjan Region

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Screening date palm cultivars for resistance to red palm weevil, Rhynchophorus Ferrugineus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)

perhaps via antibiosis or infection with a pathogenic organism).

Compost tea reduces egg hatch and early-stage nymphal development of Halyomorpha halys (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae)

Therefore, antibiosis may play a role in the resistance mechanism of the cultivars in addition possibly to the non-preference mechanism for the adults as described before.

Field evaluation of several cultivated soybean varieties against Empoasca terminalis (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae)

1989) reported that rice leaves (including susceptible and resistant varieties) had antibiosis effects on the larvae of C.

Effects of dietary additives in artificial diets on survival and larval development of Cnaphalocrocis medinalis (Lepidoptera: Crambidae)

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Demographic parameters of Tetranychus urticae (Acari: Tetranychidae) on four Rosa sp. cultivars

Are tolerance, avoidance, and antibiosis evolutionarily and ecologically equivalent responses of plants to herbivores?

Damage by Neochetina weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) induces resistance in Eichhornia crassipes (Commelinales: Pontederiaceae)

There are 2 types of resistance, antibiosis and non-preference, and these differ from tolerance (Beck 1965).

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