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elicitins

elicitins is the plural of elicitin.

Meaning of elicitin

Noun

elicitin (plural elicitins)

  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.

Questions about elicitins

What is elicitins the plural of?
Elicitins is the plural of elicitin.

Words near elicitins in the dictionary

  1. elicited
  2. eliciteth
  3. elicitin
  4. eliciting
  5. elicitings
  6. elicitins
  7. elicitive
  8. elicitor
  9. elicitors
  10. elicitory
  11. elicits

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