摘要 |
<p>A novel composition for maintaining the freshness of cut flowers, which can stably maintain various cut flowers in their fresh states over a prolonged period allowing the stems, leaves, buds, and flowers to grow satisfactorily and come into flowering, and a process for maintaining the freshness of cut flowers are provided. A composition for maintaining the freshness of cut flowers of the present invention is characterized by containing an azole-substituted cyclopentanol derivative represented by the following formula (I) and 2-bromo-2-nitro-1,3-propanediol as effective components. <CHEM> wherein A represents a nitrogen atom or CH group, R<1> and R<2> independently represent hydrogen or a C1 - C3 alkyl group, and X represents a hydrogen atom or a halogen atom.</p> |