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methoxychalcone

methoxychalcone noun: any methoxy derivative of a chalcone.

Noun

methoxychalcone (plural methoxychalcones)

  1. Any methoxy derivative of a chalcone.
    • The available data suggest that nodD1 and nodD2 activation of nod gene expression in the infection zone occurs mainly through the action of methoxychalcone, but expression of these genes in ZIII may be mediated by another flavonoid, such as isoliquiritigenin, whilst NodD3 operates independently of...2015 July 28, Da-Song Chen et al., “Identification of a core set of rhizobial infection genes using data from single cell-types”, in Frontiers in Plant Science, volume 6, →DOI

Forms of methoxychalcone

pluralmethoxychalcones

Origin of methoxychalcone

From methoxy + chalcone.

Questions about methoxychalcone

What does methoxychalcone mean?
Methoxychalcone means any methoxy derivative of a chalcone.
What part of speech is methoxychalcone?
Methoxychalcone is a noun.
What is the plural of methoxychalcone?
The plural of methoxychalcone is methoxychalcones.

Words near methoxychalcone in the dictionary

  1. methoxybutanes
  2. methoxycarbonyl
  3. methoxycarbonylation
  4. methoxycarbonylations
  5. methoxycarbonyls
  6. methoxychalcone
  7. methoxychalcones
  8. methoxychlor
  9. methoxycinnamate
  10. methoxycinnamates
  11. methoxycyclohexene

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