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deletants

deletants is the plural of deletant.

Meaning of deletant

Noun

deletant (plural deletants)

  1. A mutant caused by the deletion of a gene.
    • The resulting vector containing the SnTox1-Bar knockout construct was PCR-amplified with 5_Tox1Fbar and 3_Tox1Fbar for transformation in toxa3 -10 to result in SnToxA, SnTox1, and SnTox3 deletant mutants.2015 July 8, Kar-Chun Tan et al., “Functional redundancy of necrotrophic effectors – consequences for exploitation for breeding”, in Frontiers in Plant Science, volume 6, →DOI

Questions about deletants

What is deletants the plural of?
Deletants is the plural of deletant.

Words near deletants in the dictionary

  1. delessitic
  2. deletability
  3. deletable
  4. deletables
  5. deletant
  6. deletants
  7. delete
  8. delete character
  9. delete characters
  10. deleteable
  11. deleted

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