Glyphosine is a plant growth regulator used on sugar beet and sugarcane. It inhibits fiber production, causing the plant to divert more dry matter to sucrose storage. of glyphosine were used in the US in 1974. It was first registered in 1972, though now is considered largely obsolete.Lewis, K.A., Tzilivakis, J., Warner, D. and Green, A. (2016) An international database for pesticide risk assessments and management. Human and Ecological Risk Assessment: An International Journal, 22(4), 1050-1064. DOI: 10.1080/10807039.2015.1133242 In other plants, e.g. maize, it causes chlorosis by inhibiting plasmid RNA synthesis. It can be synthesized from chloroacetic acid and N,N-bis(phosphonomethyl)amine. Metals form complexes with glyphosine.
Chemically, glyphosine is a tertiary amine, a glycine derivative and a phosphonic acid.
It has been manufactured by CCA Biochemical and Monsanto, and sold under the "Polaris" trademark.
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