phytosteroid catabolic process

id: GO:0016130
name: phytosteroid catabolic process
namespace: biological_process
type: go
obsolete: False

Description: The chemical reactions and pathways resulting in the breakdown of phytosteroids, steroids that differ from animal steroids in having substitutions at C24 and/or a double bond at C22. Phytosteroids are so named because they occur in higher plants; some, notably ergosterol, are also found in fungi.

Child Functions

idname
GO:0016133brassinosteroid catabolic process
GO:0016136saponin catabolic process

Parent Functions

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GO:0006706steroid catabolic process
GO:0016128phytosteroid metabolic process