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microsclerotial

microsclerotial adjective: relating to microsclerotia.

Adjective

microsclerotial (not comparable)

  1. Relating to microsclerotia
    • The defect in VdCYC8 clearly compromised wild type levels of microsclerotial formation, and we speculate that defect directly or indirectly affects virulence in V.2015 December 4, “VdCYC8, Encoding CYC8 Glucose Repression Mediator Protein, Is Required for Microsclerotia Formation and Full Virulence in Verticillium dahliae”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin of microsclerotial

From micro- + sclerotial.

Questions about microsclerotial

What does microsclerotial mean?
Microsclerotial means relating to microsclerotia.
What part of speech is microsclerotial?
Microsclerotial is an adjective.

Words near microsclerotial in the dictionary

  1. microsclere
  2. microscleres
  3. microsclerodermin
  4. microsclerodermins
  5. microsclerotia
  6. microsclerotial
  7. microsclerotium
  8. microscopal
  9. microscope
  10. microscope slide
  11. microscope slides

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