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plate count

Term · Agriculture and food · MLC-T-AGR-005012

The number of bacterial or fungal colonies that develop in culture media in a petri dish with a known amount of inoculum.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-AGR-005012
FieldAgriculture and food
SubjectResearch, Technology, Methods
Synonymsbacterial count; bacterial enumeration; fungal count; microbial colony count; microbial enumeration; total viable count
ReferencesNAL Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary
See alsolaboratory techniques; bacteriology; microbial colonization; microbial activity; mycology; most probable number technique; microbial culture; microbiology
TranslationsSpanish: conteo sobre placa
Record as JSON
{
  "id": "MLC-T-AGR-005012",
  "term": "plate count",
  "field": "Agriculture and food",
  "definition": "The number of bacterial or fungal colonies that develop in culture media in a petri dish with a known amount of inoculum.",
  "synonyms": [
    "bacterial count",
    "bacterial enumeration",
    "fungal count",
    "microbial colony count",
    "microbial enumeration",
    "total viable count"
  ],
  "subject": "Research, Technology, Methods",
  "see_also": [
    "laboratory techniques",
    "bacteriology",
    "microbial colonization",
    "microbial activity",
    "mycology",
    "most probable number technique",
    "microbial culture",
    "microbiology"
  ],
  "references": [
    "NAL Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary"
  ],
  "translations": {
    "es": "conteo sobre placa"
  },
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/agriculture/plate-count/"
}

Record 5,012 of 6,908 in Agriculture and food terminology (MLC-0114). Request the full dataset.