butralin
Sign in to saveButralin is a preëmergent herbicide used to control suckers on tobacco in the United States, Australia, Mozambique and, for food crops also, China. It is a dinitroaniline, first registered in the US in 1976. It was used in the EU until a ban in 2009 due to its ecotoxicity.
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Butralin is a preëmergent herbicide used to control suckers on tobacco in the United States, Australia, Mozambique and, for food crops also, China. It is a dinitroaniline, first registered in the US in 1976. It was used in the EU until a ban in 2009 due to its ecotoxicity.
== Mode of action and effects == Butralin works by the HRAC mode of action Group D / K1 / 3, (Australian, Global, Numeric respectively), which involves inhibition of microtubule formation, by binding to tubulin, halting growth, and causing depolymerization.
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