nonchloroplast
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From non- + chloroplast.
Adjective
[edit]nonchloroplast (not comparable)
- (biology) Not found in or part of a chloroplast
- 2000 January 21, Yuuki Murakami et al., “Trienoic Fatty Acids and Plant Tolerance of High Temperature”, in Science[1], volume 287, number 5452, , pages 476–479:
- The fatty acid composition of nonchloroplast lipids, such as phosphatidylcholine and phosphatidylethanolamine, was less affected by the absence of the chloroplast trienoic fatty acid synthetase gene (Table 1 ).
- 2001 August 10, Daniel S. Heckman et al., “Molecular Evidence for the Early Colonization of Land by Fungi and Plants”, in Science[2], volume 293, number 5532, , pages 1129–1133:
- These taxa were selected because of availability of nonchloroplast nuclear protein sequences, permitting animal-based calibration.