prototrophic

prototroph +‎ -ic

prototrophic (comparative more prototrophic, superlative most prototrophic)

1. (biology) Of or pertaining to a prototroph or to prototrophy.
   • 1969, Nuclear Science Abstracts, Volume 23, Issues 13-15, United States Atomic Energy Commission, page 2526,

     The first two, fast-growing species, were found to be more prototrophic than the last two, slowly growing species.

   • 1998, G. E. Harman, C. K. Hayes, K. L. Ondik, 11: Asexual genetics in Trichoderma and Gliocladium: Mechanisms and implications, Gary E. Harman, C. P. Kubicek (editors), Trichoderma And Gliocladium: Volume 1, Taylor & Francis, page 255,

     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.

• auxotrophic

• trophotropic