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nounalloplasm (countable and uncountable, plural alloplasms)
plural alloplasms
- countableuncountablebiologyCytoplasm that has been modified to form cilia or flagella.
In Brassica, cytoplasmic male sterility has been reported in three alloplasms: (1) Raphanus cytoplasm combined with nuclear genomes of B. oleracea, B. napus (Bannerot et al. 1974; Roussetle and Renard 1978), and B. campestris (Williams and Heyn 1981) […]
1990 February 28, S. Prakash, “Male sterility caused by cytoplasm of Brassica oxyrrhina in B. campestris and B. juncea”, in Theoretical and Applied Genetics, volume 79, number 2, page 285
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