dehybridize

English

Etymology

From de- +‎ hybridize.

Verb

dehybridize (third-person singular simple present dehybridizes, present participle dehybridizing, simple past and past participle dehybridized)

1. (botany) To produce genetically stable offspring from an F1 hybrid
2. To remove hybridization
   • 2015 October 30, “Counterintuitive DNA Sequence Dependence in Supercoiling-Induced DNA Melting”, in PLOS ONE‎^[1], →DOI:

     In contrast with predictions based on the melting temperatures of DNA [12 –14 ], our results show that an increasing percentage of GC base pairs in a long DNA molecule lowers the stretching force necessary to locally dehybridize the DNA backbones in the presence of negative supercoiling densities.