What is Daminozide?

Daminozide — aswell accepted as Alar, Kylar, B-NINE, DMASA, SADH, or B 995 — is a bulb advance regulator, a actinic sprayed on bake-apple to adapt their growth, accomplish their autumn easier, and accumulate apples from falling off the copse afore they are ripe. This makes abiding they are red and close for storage. Alar was aboriginal accustomed for use in the U.S. in 1963, it was primarily acclimated on apples until 1989 if it was voluntarily aloof by the architect afterwards the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency proposed banning it based on apropos about blight risks to consumers.

It has been produced in the U.S. by the Uniroyal Actinic Company, Inc, (now chip into the Chemtura Corporation) which registered daminozide for use on fruits advised for animal burning in 1963. In accession to apples and ornamentals, it was aswell registered for use on cherries, peaches, pears, Concord grapes, amazon transplants and peanut vines. On bake-apple trees, daminozide affects flow-bud initiation, fruit-set maturity, bake-apple compactness and coloring, preharvest bead and bazaar superior of bake-apple at autumn and during storage. In 1989, it became actionable to use daminozide on aliment crops in the US, but it is still accustomed for use on non-food crops like ornamentals.