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Adjuvants & Formulations

Bimonthly newsletter for agchem specialists (former Adjuvant Newsletter)

 

May / June 2016

Stimulating and eye-catching presentations at ISAA 2016
Monterey in California, USA hosted the 11th International Symposium on Adjuvants for Agrochemicals in June 2016. Almost all aspects of adjuvant applications and adjuvant developments were covered and presented to a record number of 521 attendants. Far out most attendants came from the USA, followed by South America and Western Europe. At the ISAA 2016 Trade Exhibition several companies presented their products and services. Adjuvants & Formulations highlights some of the presentations at ISAA2016. Picture: Solito Sumulong, ISAA 2016.

The ISAA 2016 Proceedings provide the full papers and the posters presented. A hard copy and/or a digital version can be ordered via the ISAA Society website.



Wolf spider catches fewer preys upon contact with surfactants
Czech researchers have found in an laboratory experiment that surfactants can reduce prey capture in wolf spider. The study is one of the first showing that adjuvants can have sublethal effects that can weaken the predatory activity of biological control agents. Picture: Vladimír Hula, Mendel University in Brno.


Little leaching of trisiloxane adjuvants
Trisiloxane adjuvants are little leaching-susceptible. Their transformation products, however, are more polar and may be more mobile in soil and could leach into groundwater. More about this research in the May/June 2016 issue of Adjuvants & Formulations.


Patents in brief
Adjuvants & Formulations has found interesting new agrochemical adjuvants during its bimonthly examination of the thousands of freshly published patent applications: novel organosilicon adjuvants, water conditioners that do not enhance herbicide volatility and additives that reduce eye irritancy of active ingredients and emulsifiers. News items about these adjuvants are interspersed with news about patent pending pesticide formulations.


Apps: Side Effects
An adjuvant selector or an application tool – app stores have dozens of useful and interesting applications for mobile devices. In this issue the Side Effects app, an application that can be used to check the compatibility of pesticides on beneficial organisms that are used in agriculture and horticulture, for biological crop protection and natural pollination.


Ball-and-stick model
of 2,4-D


And further in this issue
The history and future of 2,4-D.
Different effects of divalent cations on 2,4-D efficacy.
Uptake and translocation of seed-applied insecticides in soybeans.
Emulsifying process and the stability of pesticide nanoemulsions.
Formation of O/W nanoemulsion by W/O microemulsion dilution.
Wetting mixtures of surfactants from renewable resources.
Nonylphenol affects growth of lettuce seedlings.
Dynamical behaviours of structural, constrained and free water in calcium- and magnesium-silicate-hydrate gels.
An overview of the recent adjuvant and formulation literature, including hyperlinks to original sources.
Adjuvant and formulation news from the annual meeting of the 18th International Cyclodextrin Symposium.



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