ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Hypaphorine

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Hypaphorine is a noun meaning (organic chemistry) An indole alkaloid, present in the fungus Pisolithus tinctorius in family Sclerodermataceae, that controls the elongation rate of root hairs.

Meaning

(organic chemistry) An indole alkaloid, present in the fungus Pisolithus tinctorius in family Sclerodermataceae, that controls the elongation rate of root hairs.

Example Sentences

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.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include plakohypaphorine, azaphilone, thaliporphine, aporphinoid, hyperphyllin, actinodaphine.

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