Planteome: Term Details for "biphenyl metabolic process" (GO:0018879)

Accession: GO:0018879
Name: biphenyl metabolic process
Ontology: biological_process
Synonyms: biphenyl metabolism, xenene metabolic process, xenene metabolism
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: The chemical reactions and pathways involving biphenyl, a toxic aromatic hydrocarbon used as a heat transfer agent, as a fungistat in packaging citrus fruits and in plant disease control. Biphenyl can be chlorinated with 1-10 chlorine molecules to form polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). Source: GOC:jl
Comment: None
History: See term history for GO:0018879 at QuickGO
Subset: None
Related: Link to all annotated objects annotated to biphenyl metabolic process.; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to biphenyl metabolic process.; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for biphenyl metabolic process.
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subject	relation	object
biphenyl metabolic process	is_a	benzene-containing compound metabolic process (GO:0042537)

subject	relation	object
biphenyl catabolic process (GO:0070980)	is_a	biphenyl metabolic process