paper factor

paper factor
noun
: a substance originally isolated from pulpwood of the balsam fir that is a selectively effective insecticide with activity like that of juvenile hormone — called also juvabione

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paper factor,
a terpene of the balsam fir which is a naturally occurring insect juvenile hormone: »

Paper factor is highly effective in killing the cotton stainer bug, which destroys up to half the cotton crop in Asia, Africa and South America each year (New York Times).

[so called because this substance was first isolated from paper used as newsprint]

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