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US 5,176,735 AGranted
Method of desiccating plants employing 3-carbonylphenyl uracil derivatives
AssigneeUniroyal Chemical Company, Inc.
InventorAllyn R. Bell
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Abstract
A method of desiccating plants, which method involves the application of a desiccatingly effective amount of certain 3-carbonylphenyl uracil compounds to the locus of the plants to be treated. Such application will act as a harvest aid for field crops.
Claims3
A method of desiccating field crop plants, which method comprises applying to such plants a desiccatingly effective amount of a compound having the structural formula:
- ##STR26## wherein:
- R.sup.1 is hydrogen, C.sub.1 -C.sub.3 alkyl, C.sub.1 -C.sub.3 alkenyl or C.sub.1 -C.sub.3 alkynyl;
- R.sup.2 is C.sub.2 -C.sub.6 -alkyl or C.sub.2 -C.sub.6 alkoxyalkyl;
- R.sup.3 is chlorine or fluorine;
- R.sup.4 is chlorine, hydrogen or fluorine;
- R.sup.5 is hydrogen, methyl, ethyl, monochloromethyl or monobromomethyl;
- R.sup.6 is hydrogen, trifluoromethyl, methyl or ethyl;
- and
- X is oxygen.
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