Contents 2004

 

The publication of the Adjuvant Newsletter started in May 2004 

 

May

June 

July 

August 

September 

October 

November 

December 

 

 

 

 

 

May 2004

  • Surfactants exerting fungicide activity
  • Adjuvants improve fungicide efficacy
  • Fluorescence imaging as a tool for investigating formulations
  • Adjuvants at IWSS in Durban (SA)
  • Application technology for viscous liquids
  • Peat wetting improved by surfactants
  • Literature
  • Book offers
  • News in brief

 

June 2004

  • 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

 

July 2004

  • 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

 

August 2004

  • 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

 

September 2004

  • 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

 

October 2004

  • 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 Göttingen (Germany)
  • Formulation items on the German PLant Protection Conference (continued)
  • Literature

 

November 2004

  • 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

 

December 2004

  • 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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