Phytoncide

Antimicrobial chemical compounds derived from plants

Phytoncides are antimicrobial allelochemic volatile organic compounds derived from plants. The word, which means "exterminated by the plant", was coined in 1928 by Boris P. Tokin, a Soviet biochemist then studying at Moscow State University. He found that some plants give off very active substances that help to prevent them from rotting or from being eaten by some insects and animals.

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