English Explanatory Dictionary

Woronin body

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An organelle found near the septae that divide hyphal compartments in filamentous Ascomycota, formed by budding from conventional peroxisomes.

Word forms

Woronin body Woronin bodies

Etymology

Named after the Russian botanist Mikhail Stepanovich Woronin.

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