“…The application of retardants, ethylene releasing compounds and their mixtures in many cases leads to a significant increase in productivity and determines their introduction into complexes of measures for the cultivation of various crops ˗ cereals [57,146,171], legumes [83,84,226], vegetables [90,104,152], technical [60,183,199,202,204,213], widespread use in meadow growing [58,193] and floriculture [46,187]. The high efficiency of retardant treatment on fruit and berry crops has been proven [1,73,176,186].…”