root giant cell
Term Information
- Accession
- PO:0005026
- Aspect
- plant anatomy
- Synonyms
- exact: célula gigante de la raíz (Spanish)
- exact: 根巨大細胞 (Japanese)
- Definition
- Multinucleate cell developed by a series of events involving kayokinesis but not cytokinesis of the initial feeding cell. The events are induced by root knot nematodes (e.g., Meloidogyne sp. ) entering the feeding cells (any cells) of the root vascular system. [source: GR:Pankaj_Jaiswal, PMID:15053756]
- Comment
- None
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