prototrophic

1. (biology) Of or pertaining to a prototroph or to prototrophy.Examples: "The first two, fast-growing species, were found to be more prototrophic than the last two, slowly growing species."; "Intrastrain fusions resulted in fully prototrophic progeny that were very similar in appearance and growth rate to the original prototrophic parental strain (Stasz et al., 1988a, 1989)."; "2021, Amaia Zúñiga-Ripa, et al., The fast-growing Brucella suis Biovar 5..., Axel Cloeckaert, Michel Stanislas Zygmunt, Nieves Vizcaino, Adrian Whatmore, Holger C. Scholz (editors), Pathogenomics of the Genus Brucella and Beyond, Frontiers Media (Frontiers Open Access E-books), page 177, These differences suggested that B. suis 513 is more prototrophic than B. abortus 2308W (see section “Discussion”), and thus we examined the vitamin requirements of B. suis 513."