English Explanatory Dictionary

elicitin

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any of a family of small, highly conserved toxic proteins secreted by certain phytopathogenic microorganisms and inducing a necrotic and systemic hypersensitive response in certain plants.

Word forms

elicitin elicitins

Etymology

From elicit + -in.

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