Function: Plant Growth Regulator
CAS No.: 16672-87-0
Specification: 85%Tech, 400 g/l SL, 300 g/l SL
Ethephon is a kind of organic phosphine plant growth regulator, it widely used in agriculture, forestry, horticulture industry. Its effectiveness as a plant hormone is dependent on its rate of production versus its rate of escaping into the atmosphere. Ethylene is produced at a faster rate in rapidly growing and dividing cells, especially in darkness. With more ethylene in new growth and newly germinated seedlings produce, it can escape the plant, which leads to elevated amounts of ethylene, inhibiting leaf expansion.
Product Name | Plant Growth Regulator |
CAS No. | 16672-87-0 |
Specification | 85%Tech, 400 g/l SL, 300 g/l SL |
Empirical Formula | C2H6ClO3P |
Chemical Name | (2-chloroethyl)phosphonic acid |
Toxicology | Oral Acute oral LD50 for rats 3030 mg/kg (tech.). Skin and eye Acute percutaneous LD50 for rabbits 1560 mg/kg (tech.). Irritating to skin and eyes. Inhalation LC50 (4 h) for rats 4.52 mg/l (tech.). NOEL (2 y) for rats 3000 ppm diet. ADI (JMPR) 0.05 mg/kg b.w. [1997]. Toxicity class WHO (a.i.) U |
Ethephon Uses | To promote pre-harvest ripening in apples, currants, blackberries, blueberries, cranberries, morello cherries, citrus fruit,
figs, tomatoes, sugar beet and fodder beet seed crops, coffee, capsicums, etc.; to accelerate post-harvest ripening in bananas, to shorten the stem length in forced daffodils; to induce flowering and regulate ripening in pineapples; to accelerate boll opening in cotton; to modify sex expression in cucumbers and squash; to increase fruit setting and yield in cucumbers; to improve the sturdiness of onion seed crops; to hasten the yellowing of mature tobacco leaves; to stimulate latex flow in rubber trees, and resin flow in pine trees; to stimulate early uniform hull split in walnuts; etc. |
Package | 200KG/Drum, 200L/Drum, 10L/Carton etc |