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Definition of Phytotoxin

1. Noun. Any substance produced by plants that is similar in its properties to extracellular bacterial toxin.

Definition of Phytotoxin

1. Noun. (biochemistry) Any toxic substance produced by a plant ¹

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Medical Definition of Phytotoxin

1. A substance similar in its properties to an extracellular bacterial toxin. Synonym: plant toxin. Origin: phyto-+ G. Toxikon, poison (05 Mar 2000)

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Literary usage of Phytotoxin

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Pathogenic microorganisms by William Hallock Park (1920)
"Plants as well as animals secrete substances which have many or all of the characteristics of microbal exotoxins. They may be characterized as phytotoxin ..."

2. Principles of Immunology by Howard Thomas Karsner, Enrique Eduardo Ecker (1921)
"The poison of rhus toxicodendron (poison ivy) and of rhus diversiloba (poison oak) might be considered a phytotoxin, but is chemically a glu- coside and ..."

3. Chemical Pathology: Being a Discussion of General Pathology from the by Harry Gideon Wells (1914)
"... unites with the hemolysin in simple multiple proportions.10 Jacoby believed that he had obtained the phytotoxin ricin free ..."

4. Gene Expression in Horticultural Crops: Bibliography January 1991-October 1992 by Robert D. Warmbrodt (1995)
"M65 Characterization of a DNA region required for production of the phytotoxin coronatine by Pseu- ..."

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