Method for inducing resistance in plants using environmentally safe antioxidants
CA 1339461 C · Owner: Norris, Dale M. · Inventors: Norris, Dale M.
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The present invention describes a method for increasing the resistance of plants to pests or pathogens by administering to the surface of the plant environmentally safe antioxidants such as ascorbates, tocopherols reduced, glutathione and its derivatives and cysteines (half, cystines). The administration to a portion of the surface of the plant of an effective amount of such environmentally safe antioxidants induces in the plant a protective response which is systemic in nature. Application may be made by a variety of ways including drenching the root system of the plant, spraying the plant with a solution containing an effective amount of antioxidant or direct, application to the stem of …
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- Granted September 16, 1997. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended September 16, 2014.
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