psychrotrophic
English
Etymology
psychro- (“cold”) + -trophic (“growth”)
Adjective
psychrotrophic (comparative more psychrotrophic, superlative most psychrotrophic)
- (biology) Describing microorganisms that thrive in a cold environment.
- (Can we date this quote?), Kaarin Goodburn, “How chilled is your fridge?”, in Food Standards Agency:
- One of the main reasons fridge temperatures are recommend to be set at 5ºC is because of listeria. Listeria is a food poisoning bacterium that is psychrotrophic – in other words it likes cold temperatures. From the growth models, we know that listeria grows nearly twice as fast at 8°C as it does at 5°C, hence the recommended 5ºC, which helps keep us safe from listeria.
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Related terms
- psychrotroph
Translations
biology: describing microorganisms that thrive in a cold environment
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