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tropisms

Term · Agriculture and food · MLC-T-AGR-006539

Movement that is inducible and takes place in a direction related to that of the stimulus, such as the movement of leaves toward light in positive phototropism or away from light in negative phototropism.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-AGR-006539
FieldAgriculture and food
SubjectFields of Study
ReferencesNAL Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary
See alsophysiology; auxins; taxis (physiology); hyponasty; nastic movement; plagiotropism; halotropism; chemotropism; gravitropism; hydrotropism; phototropism; thigmotropism
TranslationsSpanish: tropismos
Record as JSON
{
  "id": "MLC-T-AGR-006539",
  "term": "tropisms",
  "field": "Agriculture and food",
  "definition": "Movement that is inducible and takes place in a direction related to that of the stimulus, such as the movement of leaves toward light in positive phototropism or away from light in negative phototropism.",
  "subject": "Fields of Study",
  "see_also": [
    "physiology",
    "auxins",
    "taxis (physiology)",
    "hyponasty",
    "nastic movement",
    "plagiotropism",
    "halotropism",
    "chemotropism",
    "gravitropism",
    "hydrotropism",
    "phototropism",
    "thigmotropism"
  ],
  "references": [
    "NAL Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary"
  ],
  "translations": {
    "es": "tropismos"
  },
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/agriculture/tropisms/"
}

Record 6,539 of 6,908 in Agriculture and food terminology (MLC-0114). Request the full dataset.