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IN the course of a screening programme investigating the herbicidal activity of various benzonitriles and related compounds it was found that many of these substances inhibited the growth of young oat plants and the germination of seeds of many weed species.
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KOOPMAN, H., DAAMS, J. 2,6-Dichlorobenzonitrile: a New Herbicide. Nature 186, 89–90 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/186089a0
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