brachypodium

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See also: Brachypodium

English

Etymology

From the genus name.

Noun

brachypodium (plural brachypodiums)

  1. Any grass of the genus Brachypodium.
    • 1957, The Bulletin of the Hardy Plant Society, volumes 1-5, page 26:
      Then there are the brachypodiums found abundantly in semi-shaded positions, whose awned spikelets are suspended from the gracefully sagging, thin branchings of the panicles, and the elegant glycerias found in damp places.
    • 2016 March 8, “CG Methylation Covaries with Differential Gene Expression between Leaf and Floral Bud Tissues of Brachypodium distachyon”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
      These results suggest that CG methylation acts in some unknown way to limit methylation in the other contexts, at least in brachypodium.