nodulin

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noun

Any of a class of plant proteins formed or enhanced during symbiotic nitrogen fixation in root nodules

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Meanings

nounnodulin (plural nodulins)

plural nodulins

  1. biochemistryAny of a class of plant proteins formed or enhanced during symbiotic nitrogen fixation in root nodules

    In rice lines containing the dominant (susceptibility) allele of the gene, the expression of the nodulin homolog is up regulated upon infection with Xoo .

    2015 May 31, Sharat Kumar Pradhan et al., “Pyramiding of three bacterial blight resistance genes for broad-spectrum resistance in deepwater rice variety, Jalmagna”, in Rice, volume 8, →DOI

Origin

From nodule + -in.

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