bioprotectant
nounEtymology From bio- + protectant.
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A biological or biochemical protectant
- There are therefore evidences that trehalose produced by plants does not primarily act as a bioprotectant.2015 July 11, “Against All Odds: Trehalose-6-Phosphate Synthase and Trehalase Genes in the Bdelloid Rotifer Adineta vaga Were Acquired by Horizontal Gene Transfer and Are Upregulated during Desiccation”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI: