adjective

Of the nature of or resembling a bacterium.

At that time, nodule plant fraction and bacteroid soluble protein contents did not show any significant effect by ABA, whilst the latter only declined by day 9.

noun

A bacteroid organism or structure, especially a modified cell formed by a symbiotic bacterium in a root nodule of a leguminous plant.

Ammonia is exported from the bacteroids into the plant cell cytosol where it is assimilated, and directed to the synthesis of amino acids and/or ureides for subsequent export from the nodule.