sporamin

sporamin (countable and uncountable, plural sporamins)

1. (biochemistry) A storage protein found in the tubers of sweet potato
   • 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:10.1371/journal.pone.0137981:

     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.

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