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IN the course of systematic investigations of the dithiocarbamates, the compound S-(carboxymethyl)-dimethyldithiocarbamate, obtained by the reaction of sodium dimethyldithio-carbamate with monochloroacetic acid, was found to exhibit distinct plant growth-regulating activity. Tomato plants, about 20 cm. high, from which the tip was replaced by a glass tube containing a 1,000 p.p.m. solution of this compound showed very clear epinastic curvature and leaf deformations (Fig. 1) which were of the same type as those caused by 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid.
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VAN DER KERK, G., VAN RAALTE, M., SIJPESTEIJN, A. et al. A New Type of Plant Growth-regulating Substances. Nature 176, 308–310 (1955). https://doi.org/10.1038/176308a0
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