deletant

English

Etymology

From delete +‎ -ant.

Noun

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, 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.

Anagrams

• talented