Meanings
adjectivedesmodioid (not comparable)
- not comparableCharacterised by determinate growth·
The phaseoloid clade is characterised by some members of all groups having stipels, and desmodioid root nodules which export ureides […]
2000, Patrick S. Herendeen, Anne Bruneau, P. S. Pollard, Advances in Legume Systematics (part 9, page 13)1 more example
The major difference between desmodioid and aeschynomenoid nodules is that the former contains a mixture of infected and uninfected cells whereas in the latter only infected cells are present.
2019, S. M. Paul Khurana, Rajarshi Kumar Gaur, Plant Biotechnology: Progress in Genomic Era, page 411
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