Process for regulating or influencing the growth and metabolism of plants

US3960541A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Chemie Linz GmbH · AT

Inventors

• Hubert Mayr · Leonding, AT
• Elfriede Presoly · Linz, AT
• Ferdinand Weinrotter · Budapest, HU
• Walter Muller · Neuwied, DE
• Gerhard Stern · Linz, AT
• Walter Mizzi Frohner, deceased · Traun, AT

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 3, 1975
• Grant date: Jun 1, 1976
• Expiry date: Jan 3, 1995

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A01N43/20
• WIPO field: Basic materials chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

The resistance of plants to environmental factors such drought is increased by treating the plants themselves, their seeds before sowing or the surrounding soil, before or after emergence of the plants, with compositions containing aliphatic epoxymonocarboxylic acids containing one to three epoxy groups and 6 to 22 carbon atoms or the salts, lower alkyl esters, lower polyhydroxyalkyl esters, amides, monoalkylamides and dialkylamides thereof as active ingredient.