Herbicide safener
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Herbicide safeners can be used to pretreat crop seeds prior to planting, or they can be sprayed on plants as a mixture with the herbicide.
Inventory
After the discovery of the safener properties of naphthalic anhydride, additional safeners were reported. They are associated with particular crops, such as benoxacor for maize and flurazole for sorghum.
Approximately 20 safeners were in use in 2023. The inventory:
- benoxacor
- BPCMS
- cloquintocet
- cyometrinil
- cyprosulfamide
- dichlormid
- dicyclonon
- dietholate
- fenchlorazole
- fenclorim
- flurazole
- fluxofenim
- furilazole
- isoxadifen
- jiecaowan
- jiecaoxi
- mefenpyr
- mephenate
- metcamifen
- naphthalic anhydride
- oxabetrinil
These safeners have been classified according to structural motifs.
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