Fertilizer composition and process to prevent the nitrificacao of ammoniacal nitrogen in growth media

摘要

The present invention relates to crop culture and is particularly concerned with practices for conserving soil nitrogen and for supplying the soil nitrogen requirements for plant nutrition. These practices involve the employment, as active agent, of a novel butane compound having the formula IMAGE wherein X is H or IMAGE R is H or C1-C8 alkyl; R' is C1-C4 alkyl, C1-C4 alkoxy or halo and n is an integer from 0 to 2.