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US 4,067,718 AGranted
Method for controlling the relative stem growth of plants
AssigneeAmerican Cyanamid Company
InventorSaleh Abdul-Kadir Ashkar
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Abstract
The invention relates to a method for controlling the relative stem growth of plants by applying to the foliage of the plants, or to soil containing seeds of the plants, a plant-growth-regulating amount of an imidazoisoindoledione or dihydroimidazoisoindoledione or an optical or stereo isomer thereof.
Claims18
A method for controlling the relative stem growth of plants comprising treating the plants with a compound of the formula:
- ##STR59## wherein X represents H, CH.sub.3, Cl, OCH.sub.3, SCH.sub.3 or NO.sub.2 ;
- R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 each represent alkyl C.sub.1 -C.sub.4, provided that the sum of the carbon atoms in the groups represented by said R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 is 4 to 7, and when R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are taken together with the carbon to which they are attached, they may represent cycloalkyl C.sub.5 -C.sub.6 optionally substituted with CH.sub.3 ;
- in an amount sufficient to increase or reduce the relative stem length of the treated plant.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.