Phytoncide

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Phytoncides are antimicrobial and insecticidal volatile organic compounds derived from plants. The word, which means "exterminated by the plant" (from the Greek φυτόν "plant" and the Latin caedere"to kill"), was coined in 1928 by Boris P. Tokin, a Soviet biochemist then studying at Moscow State University.

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