Method for protecting crops from suffering damages
OwnerMitsuyoshi Okii, Tatsuya Onitake +3inventors
InventorsMitsuyoshi Okii, Tatsuya Onitake, Masanobu Kawai, Tetsuo Takematsu, Makato Konnai
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Abstract
Crops are protected from suffering various damages by applying polyamine compounds such as long-chain alkylenediamines. By the use of said polyamine compounds, various effects can be obtained, for example, reduction of cold-weather damage or frost damage to crops, retardation of fading of green color of green crops, reduction of damage from photochemical oxidants to crops, retardation of wilting of leaves of crop plants, etc.
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A method for protecting a crop selected from the group consisting of a gramineous crop, radish, mulberry and tobacco from suffering damage selected from the group consisting of cold-weather damage, frost damage, fading of green color, damage from photochemical oxidants and wilting of leaves which comprises applying to a locus to be protected, in an amount sufficient to protect said crop, an alkylene diamine represented by the general formula:
- H.sub.2 N--(CH.sub.2).sub.n --NH.sub.2
- wherein n is an integer of 4-12.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.