1. to accelerate ripening of fruit, tomatoes, sugar beet, coffee, etc.
2. to increase the tillering of wheat and rice
3. to prevent lodging in rice, maize and flax
4. to accelerate boll opening and defoliation in cotton
5. to hasten the yellowing of mature tobacco leaves
6. to stimulate latex flow in rubber trees, and resin flow in pine trees
7. to stimulate early uniform hull split in walnuts, etc.
