"undermodify" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1996, Institute of Brewing (Great Britain)., Journal of the Institute of Brewing - Volume 102, page 46:",
          "text": "Such unevenness of protein modification is not detected using conventional analyses but could be \"malted out\", or treated with commercial enzymes during mashing, or eliminated by genetic transformation of hordein matrix proteins which do not compact during grain development and which do not undermodify or overmodify during the breakdown of cell wall beta glucan and small starch granules during malting.",
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        "To modify insufficiently."
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