abscisin
/əbˈsɪsɪn/ /abˈsɪsɪn/Biochemistry
noun
Either of two substances that promote leaf abscission, (a) (more fully abscisin I) one isolated from cotton bolls (now historical ); (b) (more fully abscisin II) = abscisic acid.
Origin
1960s. From abscis- + -in.
- cytopharynx
- cytophil
- cytophile
- cytophilic
- cytophilically
- cytophotometer
- cytophotometric
- cytophotometrically
- cytophotometry
- cytoplasm
- cytoplasmatic
- cytoplasmic
- cytoplasmically
- cytoplasmic inheritance
- cytoplasmic male sterility
- take up (or throw down) the gauntlet
- take up the cudgels
- take up the running
- take up with
- take wing
- take-with
- takhaar
- takht
- Takilma
- takin