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sporamin

sporamin noun: a storage protein found in the tubers of sweet potato.

Noun

sporamin (countable and uncountable, plural sporamins)

  1. A storage protein found in the tubers of sweet potato
    • Much less is known too in terms of the interactions of nematode feeding and the KPIs. In transgenic studies, over-expression of the sporamin gene from sweet potato in sugar beet did reduce the growth and development of the sugar beet cyst nematode, H.2015 September 23, “Transcription of Biotic Stress Associated Genes in White Clover ( Trifolium repens L .) Differs in Response to Cyst and Root-Knot Nematode Infection”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Forms of sporamin

pluralsporamins

Questions about sporamin

What does sporamin mean?
Sporamin means a storage protein found in the tubers of sweet potato.
What part of speech is sporamin?
Sporamin is a noun.
What is the plural of sporamin?
The plural of sporamin is sporamins.

Words near sporamin in the dictionary

  1. sporadicity
  2. sporadick
  3. sporadicness
  4. sporadism
  5. sporal
  6. sporamin
  7. sporamins
  8. sporange
  9. sporanges
  10. sporangia
  11. sporangial

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