See Also: Plastoquinone-9(medicine)
plastoquinone(medicine)
plastoquinone(dictionary)
NAD(P)H plastoquinone oxidoreductase(medicine)

mar (oh) and plastoquinone (iou)


mar (oh)



[T]
[Language: Old English; Origin: mierran]
to make something less attractive or enjoyable
-synonym spoil spoil
::Their wedding was marred by the death of Jenny's mother a week earlier.
::A frown marred his handsome features.

plastoquinone (iou)



plastoquinone noun. M20.
[from CHLORO)PLAST + -O- + QUINONE.]
Biochemistry. Any of a homologous series of compounds which have a quinone nucleus with a terpenoid side-chain, esp. one of these involved in electron transfer during photosynthesis in the chloroplasts of plants.