deletant

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

delete +‎ -ant

Noun[edit]

deletant (plural deletants)

  1. (genetics) A mutant caused by the deletion of a gene
    • 2015 July 8, Kar-Chun Tan et al., “Functional redundancy of necrotrophic effectors – consequences for exploitation for breeding”, in Frontiers in Plant Science[1], volume 6, →DOI:
      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.

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