suicide seed

English

Noun

suicide seed (plural suicide seeds)

  1. (genetic engineering) A proposed kind of modified seed whose use would be restricted by having important genes activated only in response to some stimulus (such as a special chemical), and which would otherwise produce infertile second-generation seeds.
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