‘Emergency’ ban on 2,4,5-T herbicide in US
✍ Scribed by Cookson, Clive
- Book ID
- 109713312
- Publisher
- Nature Publishing Group
- Year
- 1979
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 252 KB
- Volume
- 278
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0028-0836
- DOI
- 10.1038/278108a0
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The aim of this investigation was to determine the contribution made by the different components of herbicide formulations to the overall toxicity of the formulations. Three related herbicide formulations were chosen. The first, Agent Orange, consisted only of the butyl esters of 2,4,5-T and 2,4-D.
## Abstract The herbicide 2,4,5 trichlorophenoxy acetic acid (245T) at concentrations from 0.5 to 0.9 mM, was found to inhibit respiration and then growth in exponentially growing cultures of __Tetrahymena pyriformis__. Cell division was stopped for periods up to 60 minutes after which the cells re