elicitins

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A form of elicitin — 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.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of elicitin
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