carpellody

English

Noun

carpellody (uncountable)

1. A plant disorder, resulting in misshapen fruits, caused by abnormal development of the ovule-bearing part of the flower in angiosperms.
   • 2015 September 26, “Organelle Simple Sequence Repeat Markers Help to Distinguish Carpelloid Stamen and Normal Cytoplasmic Male Sterile Sources in Broccoli”, in PLOS ONE‎^[1], →DOI:

     Furthermore, the phenotypic features of the carpelloid stamen materials were similar to the carpellody of stamens in B.

Related terms

• carpellodic