Contents 2004

The publication of the Adjuvant Newsletter started in May 2004

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Nanotechnology as a tool for agrochemical formulations investigated by Rhodia scientists.
Announcement SCI meeting on more effective and more easy to use pesticides.
Adjuvants promote bio-herbicide activity against opium poppy.
Summarised state-of-the-art German leaf cuticle school.
Apple fruit needs surfactant in fungicide and calcium chloride blends.
Explanation of Point of Deliquescence in relation to foliar uptake of salts.
Manganese formulations effect potato yield
Surfactant improved water and nitrogen efficiency
Literature

Innovation by formulating 2,4-D acid results in more effective product
Adjuvants improve diquat performance
Mike North and Cape Town (SA) welcome ISAA 2004 attendants
Jerry Green reports about the IWSC meeting in Durban SA
Alan Knowles about the Nantong Pesticide Formulation Development Centre in China
SILCA IV; Adjuvant Symposium for South America in Buenos Aires
Literature

Effective adjuvant for growth retardant daminozide
EPA approval of biosurfactant as active ingredient
SILCA IV, Latin America Adjuvant Meeting, on track
Announcement ASTM 25th Symposium on Pesticide Formulations and Delivery Systems in Washington DC
Influence of formulation on the performance of entomopathogenic nematodes against moth larvae
Fungicide formulations for trunk injection needed; research on carbohydrate based carriers
Literature

Jörg Schönherr gives his view on the rules to select adjuvants for rapid foliar penetration of chemicals
Preview International Conference on Pesticide Application for Drift Management on October 27-29
Bead production for bioencapsulation (biopesticide delivery)
Alan Knowles presents a preview of the SCI meeting in London on October 26; safe and effective pesticide use
Adjuvant and Formulation items on the German Plant Protection Conference
Editorial announcing new services in the Newsletter
Literature

ASTM 2004 report covering the following items:
- Registration and Formulation/Adjuvants (EPA and APE)
- Interactions application technology and formulations
- Developments on granules
- pH and surfactant influence on weak acid herbicide performance
- Fatty amine alkoxylates surfactants and strobilurin fungicides
Jan van de Zande (Wageningen, NL) about influence of application technology and formulation on drift
Organo silicone based adjuvant enhances bark penetration of fungicides
Report Foliar Fertilization Meeting in GÃ¶ttingen (Germany)
Formulation items on the German PLant Protection Conference (continued)
Literature

George Beestman (USA) about patent trends in pesticide formulations adjuvants
- Categories of adjuvant patents and applications 2003-2003
- Adjuvant patents and applications through September 2004
- Trends
Report ISAA 2004 in Cape Town (SA)
- Adjuvant use and marketing in SA
- Hybrid adjuvants for glyphosate and other herbicides
- Adjuvants for rest-breaking agents in apples
- Organosilicone surfactant improves drying sultana grapes
- Ethyl hydroxyethyl cellulose (EHEC) as drift retardant
- Links to advanced technology for monitoring adjuvants performance
Initiative to set up a society for the ISAA symposia
Meetings
Literature

Guest's view: Robin Dexter about 'The relation between formulations and spray drift'
- DST and viscosity
- Surfactants and oils
Editorial: Best wishes for 2005!
- Link to Future Forests
New formulation targets pesticide-resistant insects
- New formulation deactivates resistance mechanism before exposure of insects to insecticides like pyrethroids
Adjuvants alter fungicide action
- How adjuvants can change the activity patterns of fungicides
Ammonium sulphate enhances growth regulator's performance
- Ammonium sulphate strenghtens apple shoot growth suppression by prohexadione-calcium

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