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English
Etymology
From allo- + plasm.
Noun
alloplasm (countable and uncountable, plural alloplasms)
- (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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