A cell phenotype in which a cell is longer, and has a greater length:diameter ratio, than normal in the vegetative growth phase of the life cycle. [ https://www.pombase.org/gene/mah ]
Synonyms: long vegetative cell
Term information
Note that this term is classified as a type of abnormal cell shape, because wild-type cells are never seen with the proportions (length:diameter ratio) observed in elongated cells. Small cells, in contrast, have the same proportions as a subset of wild-type cells, and simply do not grow to the full length seen in wild type.