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- Fungicide - Student Encyclopedia (Ages 11 and up)
(also called antimycotic), any toxic substance used to kill or inhibit the growth of fungi that either cause economic damage to crop or ornamental plants or endanger the health of domestic animals or humans; most are applied as sprays or dusts, though seed fungicides are applied as a protective covering before germination and systemic fungicides, or chemotherapeutants, are applied to plants, where they become distributed throughout the tissue and act to eradicate existing disease or to protect against possible disease; many antifungal substances occur naturally in bark, berries, leaves, and other plant tissues