alloplasm

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English

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Etymology

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From allo- +‎ plasm.

Noun

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alloplasm (countable and uncountable, plural alloplasms)

  1. (biology) Cytoplasm that has been modified to form cilia or flagella.
    • 1990 February, 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:
      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) []

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