bioprotectant

English

Etymology

From bio- +‎ protectant.

Noun

bioprotectant (plural bioprotectants)

1. A biological or biochemical protectant
   • 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^[1], →DOI:

     There are therefore evidences that trehalose produced by plants does not primarily act as a bioprotectant.