Contents 2009

January 2009

• New SURfaPLUS website - new services
• Company profile: Clariant covers whole range of formulation inerts
• Patents in brief
  • Crystallization inhibitors
  • ABA and fertilizer performance
  • Enzymes
• Patent Alert Service - Information and access
• Adjuvant reports
• 2009 version Adjuvant regulation and use in nine EU countries
• Changes in subcribers administration
• Agenda online
• Patents online
• Companies online

February 2009

• Solventless formulation of triclopyr butoxyethyl ester herbicide
  • new triclopyr formulation: 5000th patent inSURfaPLUS Patent Database
  • surfactants kill household pests
  • novel crystal forms of tembotrione
  • use of organomodified sil(ox)anes in sulfonylurea oil suspensions
• Selectivity through any barrier; news story BayerCropScience
  • examples tebucanozole, tembotrione plus isoxadifen-ethyl, spirotetramat
• Newsin brief
  • Improved seed coating soybeans
  • Improved permeation of imazalil
  • Plasticizers in drug delivery
• Symposia abstracts
• Literature
• SURfaPLUS Patent Alert Service online
• Agenda of meetings online
• Advertising companies online

March 2009

• Adjuvant certification by CPDA
  • Program
  • List with certified adjuvants
• News in brief
  • Adjuvant effect on foliar uptake of dimethopmorph by cucumber leaves
  • Photodegradation of herbicides and effect of formulation/adjuvants
• Patents in brief
  • Low-dose surfactant for 2,4-D
  • Tablet formulation
  • Water-dispersible particles
• Literature
• SURfaPLUS Patent Alert Service online
• Agenda of meetingsonline
• Advertising companies online

April 2009

• Updated EPA lists of inert ingredients
• Patents in brief
  • Ammonium-sulphate rich glyphosate composition
  • Nose and kin friendly solvents
• Hasten NNP: more than uptake enhancement
• News in brief
  • Review uptake hydrophilic solutes
  • Controlled release 2,4-D
• Literature
• Patent Alert Service
• Agenda
• Companies online

May 2009

• Preview ACE 2009(AgrochemEx)inChina
• Pesticide residues on vegetables in China
• BCPC back in town (Glasgow)!
• Patentsin brief
  • Stable oil-in-water emulsion
  • Herbicide dose to match morning dew
  • Emulsion stabiliser
• Newsin brief
  • Metrubuzin controlled release formulations
  • Droplet impact and spreading
  • Environmentally friendly vegetable oil microemulsions
• Other media:formulation and adjuvant items
• SURfaPLUS Patent Alert Service online
• Agenda of meetingsonline
• Advertising companies online
• Literature with links to the sources

June 2009

• Formulation and Adjuvant Projects in USDA-ARS programs
• Rhamnolipids bio-surfactants superior wetting and for microemulsions
• Patents in brief
  • High load SC seed treatment
  • Novel nanoemulsions
• Newsin brief
  • Wax particles stabilize water-in-oil emulsions
  • Film-coated seed protectant
• Abstracts 61st International Symposium on Crop Protection, Gent, Belgium
• Abstract 237th ACS National Meeting & Exposition, Salt Lake City, USA
• SURfaPLUS Patent Alert Service online
• Agenda of meetings online
• Advertising companies online
• Literature with links to the sources

July 2009

• Trends in patents for tebuconazole formulations
• Patents on the production process of tebucanozole
• A list of the most recent patents including links to the original patent database
• A figure outlining the number of different patents per year in the period 1998-2009.
• SURfaPLUS Patent Alert Service online
• Agenda of meetingsonline
• Advertising companies online

August 2009

• Formulation and application technology plus regalatory items at ASTM 2009
• High-performance alternatives to tallow-amine ethoxylate based adjuvants
• ISAA 2010 online: 9th International Symposium on Adjuvants for Agrochemicals, Germany
• News in brief
  • Surfactants effect leaching of bentazone in sand
  • Formulation of bioherbicidal fungus
  • Biosurfactant and wetting
• Other media: formulation and adjuvant items
• Literature with hyperlinks to the original sources
• SURfaPLUS Patent Alert Service online
• Agenda of meetingsonline
• Advertising companies online

September 2009

• Development of safer pesticide formulations in China by Alan Knowles
• Patentsin brief
  • Novel adjuvants for high load glyphosate formulations
  • Eye- and skin-friendly adjuvants
• News in brief
  • Improved imazapyr slow release formulations
  • Adjuvants with saflufenacil; benefits and risks
• Bioencapsulation Conference abstract list
• Literature with hyperlinks to the original sources
• SURfaPLUS Patent Alert Service online
• Agenda of meetingsonline
• Advertising companies online

October 2009

• Focus on innovations at ASTM 2009
  • Biopesticides developments and formulations
  • Oil dispersions
  • Improving SC and WDG formulations
  • Drift control additives, effect onspray parameters
  • Glyphosate and pH
• Patents in brief
  • Surfactants as pesticides
  • Novel surfactant compositions
  • Adjuvants for growth substrates
• News in brief
  • Mesotrione photolysis
  • Spreading of glucosamide-based trisiloxane
  • Selection of co-solvents
  • Adjuvants and bentazone
• Other media: Formulation and adjuvant items
• Literature with hyperlinks to the original sources
• SURfaPLUS Patent Alert Service online
• Agenda of meetingsonline
• Advertising companies online

November 2009

• New electrolyte-tolerant polymeric dispersant available
  • Functionality
  • Registration
  • Example glyphosate-atrazine shear viscosity and particle size
• News in brief
  • Control of glyphosate tolerant species
  • Pelargonic adic addition can reduce glyphosate performance
  • Formulation improves performance natural insecticide
  • Canola insecticide seed treatment
• Patents: Clean carriers and solvents
  • Revival environmentally-friendly Fischer-Tropsch oils
• Literature with hyperlinks to the original sources
• SURfaPLUS Patent Alert Service online
• Agenda of meetingsonline
• Advertising companies online

December 2009

• High throughput formulation and screening robot (PLATO)
• Editorial
• Patents in brief
  • Eye-friendly glyphosate
  • Rapid knockdown
• News in brief
  • Aerial application online
  • Seed treatment online
• Literature with hyperlinks to the original sources
• SURfaPLUS Patent Alert Service online
• Agenda of meetingsonline
• Advertising companies online

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