alloplasm

English

Etymology

allo- +‎ plasm

Noun

alloplasm (countable and uncountable, plural alloplasms)

1. (biology) Cytoplasm that has been modified to form cilia or flagella.
   • 1990 February, S. Prakash, “Male sterility caused by cytoplasm of Brassica oxyrrhina in B. campestris and B. juncea”, in Theoretical and Applied Genetics, volume 79, number 2, page 285:

     In Brassica, cytoplasmic male sterility has been reported in three alloplasms: (1) Raphanus cytoplasm combined with nuclear genomes of B. oleracea, B. napus (Bannerot et al. 1974; Roussetle and Renard 1978), and B. campestris (Williams and Heyn 1981) […]

Derived terms

• alloplasmic / alloplasmatic