1. Chemical and Physical Properties:
Chemical name: Kinetin (6-Furfurylaminopurine, N6-Furfuryladenine)
Molecular Formula: C10H9N5O
Molecular Weight: 215.21
CAS NO.: 525-79-1
Solubility:Soluble in strong acids, alkalis, and glacial acetic acid, slightly soluble in ethanol, butanol, acetone, and ether, insoluble in water.
2. Specifications: 99% purity.
3. Using Targets: Plant Growth and Human cosmetics.
4. Applications:
(1). Kinetin is a cytokinin-like synthetic plant hormone that promotes cell division in plants. It is often used in plant tissue culture to induce callus formation and regenerate shoot tissues from callus. Kinetin was originally isolated by Carlos O. Miller and Skoog et al. as a compound from autoclaved herring sperm DNA that had cell division-promoting activity.
Kinetin is used in plant culture medium (such as Murashige&Skoog culture medium), in combination with plant auxin (such as indole-3-acetic acid (IAA), indole-3-butyric acid (IBA), 1-naphthylacetic acid (NAA) or other substances, to induce callus formation and regenerate plant tissue from callus.
Kinetin can be Spraying cauliflower, celery, spinach, lettuce, mustard, radish, and other plants with a concentration of 10-20 mg/L or soaking them after harvest can delay the degradation of protein and chlorophyll in green tissue, prevent deterioration and aging of vegetable products, delay transportation and storage time, and have a preservation effect.
(2). Kinetin is also found in the DNA of cells of almost all organisms tested so far, including humans and various plants. It is thought to be produced via the production of furfural, an oxidative damage product of deoxyribose sugar in DNA, and its quenching by the adenine base’s converting it into N6-furfuryladenine, kinetin.
