Plant-Growth Substances as Selective Weed-Killers: Inhibition of Plant Growth by 2:4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic Acid and other Plant-Growth Substances
Nutman, P. S., Thornton, H. G. and Quastel, Juda
(1945)
Plant-Growth Substances as Selective Weed-Killers: Inhibition of Plant Growth by 2:4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic Acid and other Plant-Growth Substances.
Nature, 155 (3939).
pp. 498-500.
10.1038/155498a0
The work on this subject began at Rothamsted in November 1941 as a result of the previous study of the deformation of legume root hairs made by H. K. Chen, which indicated that the curling of root hairs by Rhizobium was due to the secretion by the latter of β-indolylacetic acid. Our first experiments were intended to discover whether a similar deformation of root hairs could be induced by β-indolylacetic acid itself and by related plant stimulants.
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| Additional information | Important paper - first introduction of homone weedkiller during the war Also see Troyer paper on hormone herbicides https://www.jstor.org/stable/4046518 and Kirby 1930 The hormone weedkillers BCPC symposium https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juda_Hirsch_Quastel |
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