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cytokinin

cytokinin noun: any of a class of plant hormones involved in cell growth and division.

Noun

cytokinin (plural cytokinins)

  1. Any of a class of plant hormones involved in cell growth and division.
    • The rate-limiting step for cytokinin biosynthesis involves a group of isopentenyltransferase (IPT) enzymes.2015 April 23, Simon Moore et al., “Spatiotemporal modelling of hormonal crosstalk explains the level and patterning of hormones and gene expression in Arabidopsis thaliana wild-type and mutant...
    • SE onset depends on a complex network of interactions among plant growth regulators, mainly auxins and 'cytokinins, during the proembryogenic early stages, and ethylene and gibberellic and abscisic acids later in the development of somatic embryos.2015 August 18, Clelia De-la-Peña et al., “The role of chromatin modifications in somatic embryogenesis in plants”, in Frontiers in Plant Science, volume 6, →DOI

Forms of cytokinin

pluralcytokinins

Origin of cytokinin

From cytokine + -in.

Questions about cytokinin

What does cytokinin mean?
Cytokinin means any of a class of plant hormones involved in cell growth and division.
What part of speech is cytokinin?
Cytokinin is a noun.
What is the plural of cytokinin?
The plural of cytokinin is cytokinins.

Words near cytokinin in the dictionary

  1. cytokineses
  2. cytokinesis
  3. cytokinetic
  4. cytokinetics
  5. cytokinic
  6. cytokinin
  7. cytokinins
  8. cytokinome
  9. cytokinomes
  10. cytol
  11. cytolemma

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