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What does fasciation mean?

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Noun
  1. The binding-up of a limb, etc., with bandages.
  2. (obsolete) A bandage.
  3. The process or state of being fasciated.
    1. (botany) Abnormal growth in vascular plants in which the apical meristem (growing tip) becomes elongated perpendicularly to the direction of growth, thus producing flattened, ribbon-like, crested, or elaborately contorted tissue.
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There seems little doubt that nutritional changes due to disturbances in the growth-hormone relationships in a plant play an important role in fasciation.
In all, with the exception of the first-named, the fasciation occurred in the inflorescence.
In some species of Artabotrys, indeed, fasciation and curvation of the inflorescence are common.
Fasciation is a term that has been used to describe a series of abnormal growth phenomena resulting from many different causes, all of which result in flattening of the main axis of the plant.
The list which is appended is intended to show those plants in which fasciation has been most frequently observed.
With classical methods, it took Devine 8 years to map a gene that makes soybean stems grow in a flattened, almost inside-out manner called fasciation.

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