Brush - B - Gon is the commonly used brusque name for Brush - B - Gon Poison Ivy and Brush Killer manufactured by the Solaris Group , of San Ramon , California . Brush - B - Gon and Roundup , made by the Monsanto Corporation , of St. Louis , Missouri , are both post - emerging , systemic weedkiller . Post - emergent agency they are give to weeds that are above the soil and ontogeny . Systemic means they are absorbed by plants and move inside the vascular organization . They are well compared because Brush B Gon is a selective herbicide ; Roundup is a nonselective weed killer .

Systemic Attributes

Both Brush - B - Gon and Roundup are systemic weedkiller . Systemic weed killer circulate through the interior of a works . It takes them longer to kill encounter , weeds and woody bush than it does liaison weedkiller that kill the parts of plant life that they physically bear upon .

Selective vs. Nonselective

Brush B Gon , a selective herbicide , kill brush , woody shrubs , trees and weeds with broad leaves , not smoke or plant with narrow-minded parting and parallel veins . Roundup , a nonselective weed killer , kills all plant , grasses , brush and tree diagram .

Brush-B-Gon Active Ingredients

Ortho Brush - Be - Gon contains a mixture of 24.5 pct of the active ingredient 2,4 - D ( 2,4 - dichlorophenoxy Lucy in the sky with diamonds ) and 11.7 percentage of the active ingredient 2,4 - 5 ( 2,4,5 - trichlorophenoxyacetic acid ) . Both 2,4 - D and 2,4,5 - metric ton chemically resemble plant growth hormones called auxins . Once 2,4 - D and 2,4,5 - T are absorbed by plants , they inhibit the development of the roots and shoot of plants with liberal leaves ; 2,4 - D also kills aquatic weeds .

The herbicide 2,4 - ergocalciferol was introduce in 1942 . The patent of invention has long since guide out and herbicides using it as the alive component are sold under many brand names by many troupe around the humankind .

Roundup Active Ingredients

Roundup contains the dynamic constituent glyphosate , which mimics and block part of a chemic chemical compound that is central to plant and animate being metabolism . Glyphosate moves within a plant , belt down all of it by preventing its cells from dividing . Roundup kill all yearly and perennial plants including weeds , grass and coppice .

The Monsanto patent of invention on glyphosate herbicides expired in 2000 . Other company now commercialize glyphosate herbicides under different name , but Roundup remains the most well known . The European Union censor the purpose of Roundup and other herbicides contain glyphosate on the grounds that they are an environmental luck .

Warning

forethought should be taken in handling or spraying Brush - B - Gon or Roundup . They are toxic if they are ingested or inhale in orotund amount . Agent Orange , which was used to defoliate tropic undergrowth in Vietnam , was a variety of 50 pct 2,4 - D and 50 per centum 2,4,5 - T.

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