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glucuronan

glucuronan noun: a polymer or oligomer of glucuronate, often extracted from various algae.

Noun

glucuronan (countable and uncountable, plural glucuronans)

  1. A polymer or oligomer of glucuronate, often extracted from various algae.
    • In experiment with Cd salt containing media presence of glucuronan decreased Cd concentration both in shoots and roots comparing to control and to Str5 effect.2006, Jean-Louis Morel, Phytoremediation of Metal-Contaminated Soils
    • Although the oligoglucuronans expressed an elicitor capacity in PAL activity twice higher than that of the glucuronan polymer, its induction was less important than the oligoulvans.2013, Hydroxybenzoic Acids—Advances in Research and Application, published 2013

Forms of glucuronan

pluralglucuronans

Words formed from glucuronan

  • fucoglucuronan
  • oligoglucuronan

Questions about glucuronan

What does glucuronan mean?
Glucuronan means a polymer or oligomer of glucuronate, often extracted from various algae.
What part of speech is glucuronan?
Glucuronan is a noun.
What is the plural of glucuronan?
The plural of glucuronan is glucuronans.

Words near glucuronan in the dictionary

  1. glucoverodoxin
  2. glucoxidase
  3. glucoxidases
  4. glucurolactone
  5. glucuronamide
  6. glucuronan
  7. glucuronans
  8. glucuronate
  9. glucuronates
  10. glucuronic
  11. glucuronic acid

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