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hypaphorine

hypaphorine noun: an indole alkaloid, present in the fungus Pisolithus tinctorius in family Sclerodermataceae, that controls the elongation rate of root hairs.

Noun

hypaphorine (uncountable)

  1. An indole alkaloid, present in the fungus Pisolithus tinctorius in family Sclerodermataceae, that controls the elongation rate of root hairs.
    • Perhaps during Śodhana process, a major part of hypaphorine might have undergone transformation into abrine by reduction of its tertiary amino group into the primary amino group.2015, Santosh Kumar Maurya et al., “Śodhana: An Ayurvedic process for detoxification and modification of therapeutic activities of poisonous medicinal plants”, in Ancient Science of Life, volume 34...

Questions about hypaphorine

What does hypaphorine mean?
Hypaphorine means an indole alkaloid, present in the fungus Pisolithus tinctorius in family Sclerodermataceae, that controls the elongation rate of root hairs.
What part of speech is hypaphorine?
Hypaphorine is a noun.

Words near hypaphorine in the dictionary

  1. hypanthia
  2. hypanthial
  3. hypanthium
  4. hypantrum
  5. Hypapante
  6. hypaphorine
  7. hypapophyseal
  8. hypapophyses
  9. hypapophysial
  10. hypapophysis
  11. hyparchetype

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