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Adjective
(biology) Able to be cultured (grown in a suitable environment)
Examples
Contract Awarded for Delivery of training in the identification, preparation and collection of plant diseases caused by culturable Ascomycete fungi, through a workshop.
This is due to the detection of sublethally damaged cells, which are still viable but not culturable.
He and coworkers developed a method, using a chamber with microbial air samplers, to collect and quantify culturable cough-generated aerosols of M. tuberculosis.
Most evaluations on the reduction of airborne culturable bacteria by upper-room UVGI have been carried out in chambers and a lack of field measurement studies exists.
In Indian east Punjab, the culturable waste is mere 67,000 acres.
It should also be noted that the results obtained using an HPC test are not an accurate assessment of total heterotrophic concentrations but, instead, are indications of culturable organisms present.