Subject: Anyone familiar with the herbicide 2.4-D?

From: Seon Hooi Chua <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 1996 07:01:54 +1000

COuld anyone provide me with any info on this hebicide also known as an
2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid.
thanks
regards,
sean

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From: [email-masked] (Mark Thorson)
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 00:30:35 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,
>2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid.

If I remember correctly, it's a synthetic auxin.  Because auxin serves
as the leaf abscission hormone in dicots, that makes it an excellent
defoliant and one of the components in "Agent Orange" used in Viet Nam.
It also happens to be the cell-elongation hormone in monocots, so it
actually encourages luxuriant growth of monocots despite killing
dicots, which makes it an excellent herbicide for use in the farming
of monocot crops.