Planteome: Term Details for "heterocyst development" (GO:0043158)

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Term Information

Accession: GO:0043158
Name: heterocyst development
Ontology: biological_process
Synonyms: heterocyst formation, heterocyst cell differentiation, heterocyst differentiation
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: The cellular developmental process by which a cell becomes a heterocyst, a cell that carries out nitrogen fixation. This process involves changes to the cell wall, expression of nitrogenase and other proteins involved in nitrogen fixation, and degradation of photosystem II, which produces oxygen. This process is known to occur in some cyanobacteria. Source: PMID:11121783, PMID:35744626
Comment: None
History: See term history for GO:0043158 at QuickGO
Subset: None
Related: Link to all annotated objects annotated to heterocyst development.; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to heterocyst development.; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for heterocyst development.
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GO:0008150 biological_process
GO:0009987 cellular process
GO:0032502 developmental process
GO:0048869 cellular developmental process
GO:0043158 heterocyst development

Parents of heterocyst development (GO:0043158)

subject	relation	object
heterocyst development	is_a	cellular developmental process (GO:0048869)

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Parents of heterocyst development (GO:0043158)

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