Criteria for Evaluating Insecticidal Phytotoxicity-Aerial Growth1

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Abstract
-A standardized laboratory method for evaluating the mode of action of insecticides on plant aerial growth (isolated bean stem sections) allows a rapid screening technique that can be used to test for both inhibitory or stimulatory effect of the insecticide. The inhibitory action to stem section elongation of certain organic acids related to 4, 4-dichlorodiphenylacetic acid appears to be enhanced with the "bis" structure and varies with ring substituents, a situation similar to that which governs the toxicity of DDT analogs to insects. A relationship of the effect of DDT to the auxin supply available to the plant is shown.

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