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desiccome en · NOUN

Etymology

From desiccation + -ome.

Meanings

1. The set of genes, proteins and metabolites involved in an organism's ability to tolerate desiccation.
   • One of the critical components of the desiccome are non-reducing disaccharides found to accumulate during desiccation, such as trehalose (in bacteria, fungi, some resurrection plants and metazoans) and sucrose (in most plants, pollen and seeds) [14 –16 ]. 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:

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