elicitin

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English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

elicit +‎ -in

Noun[edit]

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.