Re: RE: Fertilizer - growth inhibitors

I couldn't quite figure out this idea of 'growth inhibitors'.  One souce I
found from a Department of Plant Pathology at Louisiana State University says
"High levels of trypsin inhibitors (TIs) found in the seeds of many plant
species serve as defensive agents against the attacks of animal predators and
insect or fungal pathogens... A 14 kDa CORN TI has been shown to be active in
inhibiting growth of A. flavus. "

And I found sites talking about what preemergence herbicides do to harm corn,
sugarbeets and other field crops.   But I couldn't find anything which would
indicate that corn by-products would inhibit growth of other plants, or be
harmful in fertilizers... only that it inhibits growth of fungi (molds) or
insects, which sounds good to me.   Seems like this concept would be a long
range goal in improving iris... to be able to fend off the iris borer.
Kitty Loberg

----- Original Message -----
From: "John I Jones" <jijones@usjoneses.com>
> > Before those of you who may have used Rabbit Chow for fertilizer rush
> > out
> > and erect scarecrows in anticipation of a corn crop, I think you should
> > consider that this may just be a (sub)urban legend.
>
> Well, not quite. The issue is not kernels of corn in the rabbit
> pellets, but corn by-products. Corn by-products have growth inhibitors
> in them (that come naturally in the corn).

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