Glyphosate

Glyphosate

 

CAS No: 38641-94-0

 

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Mode of action: broad-spectrum systemic herbicide and crop desiccant. It is an organophosphorus compound, specifically a phosphonate. It is used to kill weeds, especially annual broadleaf weeds and grasses that compete with crops.

 

Glyphosate has been used as a pesticide since the 1970s. Glyphosate acid and several related glyphosate salt compounds are also registered pesticides.

It is used in products such as to control weeds in many places, including: a wide variety of fruit, vegetable, and other food crops,

ornamental plantings, lawns and turf, greenhouses, aquatic areas, forest plantings, and roadside rights-of-way for total vegetation control, and

glyphosate-resistant (transgenic) crop varieties such as canola, corn, cotton, soybeans, sugar beets, and wheat.

Products are sold in liquid, solid, and ready-to-use formulations, and applied using ground and aerial equipment and small hand-held sprayers.

 

Formulation: 95%TC,88.8% WSG, 80% SP, 68% WSG, 48% SL, 41% SL, 360 g/L SL

 

Application: Non-selective systemic herbicide absorbed by the foliage, with rapid translocation throughout the plant and inactivated on contact with soil. Control of annual and perennial grasses and broad-leaved weeds, pre-harvest, in cereals, peas, beans, oilseed rape, flax, mustard, stubble and post-planting/pre-emergence of many crops; as a directed spray in vines, olives, orchards, pasture, forestry and industrial weed control.