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US 4,056,385 AGranted
Alanine derivatives as sugar cane ripeners
AssigneeShell Oil Company
InventorRonald W. A. Leach
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Abstract
Sugar cane is ripened by treatment of the growing plants with certain alanine derivatives.
Claims1
A method for effecting ripening of sugar cane which comprises applying to the growing plant an effective amount of a compound of the formula:
- ##STR3## wherein X is chlorine or fluorine and R is hydrogen, an alkyl group containing 1 to 6 carbon atoms, or an alkali metal, alkaline earth metal, ammoniuum or alkyl-substituted ammonium ion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.