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NAL Agricultural Thesaurus
U.S. Department of Agriculture

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Research, Technology, Methods > biological properties and phenomena > biological resistance > resistance mechanisms > antibiosis
Preferred Term:

antibiosis

Definition:
A natural association between organisms that is detrimental to at least one of them. This often refers to the production of chemicals by one microorganism that is harmful to another.
Concept Schemes:
NALT Full
NALT Core
Broader Concept:
resistance mechanisms
Related Concepts:
Entry Terms:
  • bacterial antagonism
  • microbial antagonism
  • fungal antagonism
URI:
https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/10179
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RDF/XMLCreated 2006-01-19, last modified 2019-08-06
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