Anti-plant agents

The anti-plant agents favoured in Vietnam were 2,4-dichlorophenoxy-acetic acid (2,4-D), 2,4,5-trichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4,5-T), dimethyl-arsenic acid (cacodylic add) and 4-amnito-3,5,6-trichloropicolinic acid (picloram). The formulation in which they were used is set out in Table 5.1. 

Table 5.1 US anti-plant agents used in Vietnam...

Table 5.2 Official US figures for consumption of anti-plant agents in Vietnam...

Herbicides are not covered by the CWC. This follows from Article II, para 2, CWC, which does not include anti-plant agents and from the preamble, which only recognizes the prohibition, embodied in the pertinent agreements and relevant principles of international law, of the use of herbicides as a method of... 

See AnTI-ASPHMATIC AGENTS InDUSTRIAD HYGIENE AND PLANT SAFETY TOXICOLOGY. 

Recent advances in the discovery and development of plant-derived natural products and their analogs, in particular polycyclic 0-heterocycles, as anti-HIV agents 99PACI045. 

Boron is an essential trace element for plants, and may well turn out to be essential for mammals as well. The boron-containing polyether-macrolide antibiotic, boromycin, was isolated as a potent anti-HIV agent. 

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