Chemical name (IUPAC):

N-(phosphonomethyl) glycine

NON-SELECTIVE, NON-RESIDUAL POST-EMERGENCE HERBICIDE. Very effective on deep-rooted perennial species. Non-selective systemic herbicide, for control of a great variety of annual, biennial, and perennial grasses, sedges, broad-leaved weeds, and woody shrubs. Used in fruit orchards, vineyards, conifer plantations, and many plantation crops (eg coffee, tea, bananas, rubber, coconut, palms, cocoa, mangoes).