elicitin

English

Etymology

From elicit +‎ -in.

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.
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