Goldstein et al. (1980) defined lectin as a "protein or glycoprotein of non-immune origin (thus excluding immunoglobulins) which bind in a stable manner (thus excluding enzymes and carbohydrate sensor/ transport proteins) to carbohydrates." Plant lectins exert a vast panel of bioactivities (Ribeiro et al., 2018. Lupinus albus is a legume whose seeds contain reserve proteins exhibiting an array of bioactivities as wide as insecticide, fungicide (
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