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Adjuvants & Formulations
Bimonthly magazine for agchem specialists (former Adjuvant Newsletter) | |
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Microplastics-free is a major challenge for the agrochemical industry
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European Union bans micro-plastics that are intentionally added to
products. All agrochemicals marketed in the EU should be free of
microplastics within five to eight years. This regulation affects mainly
microcapsule formulations, seed treatments and coatings for granular
fertilisers. Adjuvants & Formulations aims to provide clarity when a synthetic polymer is a microplastic and when it is not. | |
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Striga control in maize using a microbial bioherbicide seed coating
Witchweed
(striga) is a parasitic weed that causes high yield losses in Subsahara
maize crops. Researchers have developed a bioherbicde formulation for
use as a seed coating agent, using an improved Fusarium oxysporum
strain that has been made resistant to the frequently used fungicide
captan. The researchers mention quite good test data. Adjuvants & Formulations summarizes briefly the results of this study.
Picture: Flowering witchweed (Striga hermontica); USDA ARS
Various
new and conventional methods are useful to identify the optimum
formulation in a surfactant–oil–water system. An international team of
scientists published a must-read in-depth review. See brief summary in
Adjuvants & Formulations.
More news in this issue:
- Diblock copolymer as vehicle for the delivery of dsRNA
- Can nanotechnology improve application of bioherbicides?
- Application technology for bioherbicides: dry inoculum and liquid spray formulations
- Drone technology for herbicide spraying and weed identification; review
- Double-spraying with different routes improved the performance of wheat herbicides applied by UAV’s
- Surfactant choice and application time affect control of smooth scouringrush (Equisetum laevigatum) with glyphosate
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Patents in brief
Swiss
researchers have developed a water-soluble copper fungicide and
bactericide formulation that turns into (almost) insoluble on target
crops. This composition has been tested in grapevine.
Another
patent application discloses a method to prepare stable suspension
concentrates of carboxylic acid herbicides in their acid form. The most
preferred carboxylic acid herbicides for this approach are 2,4-D,
dicamba, dichlorprop, MCPA, mecoprop, clopyralid, fluroxypyr, glyphosate
and glufosinate, according to the inventors.
Adjuvants & Formulations also reports about activities of other companies as well as universities, such as:
- Carrier material for micro-organisms that has improved water capacity to favour survival and sporulation
- A compound to improve the compatibility of a liquid tetraconazole plus solid metrafenone composition during storage
- Approach using the molecular machinery of plants to target nanomaterials to the phloem
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