Contents 2013

 

January/February March/April May/June

July/August

September/October

November/December

 

 January/February 2013

    • ISAA 2013 International Adjuvant Symposium Brazil 
      • Table with topics and presenters
    • Patents in brief
      • Encapsulated alpha-cypermethrin
      • Aromatic esters as adjuvants
      • Tertiary amide as adjuvant
      • Less volatile auxins
      • New antifoam adjuvant composition
      • Smectite clay improves storage stability
      • Novel cyhalofop-butyl formulations for weed control in rice
      • Novel coating for crystalline particles
      • Aqueous alkali metal glyphosate compositions 
    • News in brief
      • Formulation and spray drift 
      • Green nanoemulsion-laden glyphosate isopropylamine formulation
      • Choline alkylsulfates as green surfactants 
      • Drying patterns of porous media containing wettability contrasts
    • Media
    • Symposia abstracts: North Central Weed Science Society and WSSA plus Northeastern Weed Science Society
    • Agenda of meetings online
    • Advertising companies online
    • Literature with hyperlinks to the original sources
    • Item of the month: Genetic basis for reduced cuticular insecticide penetration

     

     March/April 2013

    • Highlights at the ISAA2013 Adjuvant Symposium
      • Brazil the breadbasket of the world
      • Users want “Adjuvantages”
      • Adjuvants reducing drift
      • Adjuvant benefits
      • Alternative strategies to reduce photodegradation
      • Amine oxide adjuvants
      • Adjuvant on a concentration base not always adequate
      • Adjuvants for foliar nutrition
      • Proceeding available
    • Patents in brief 
      • Water-miscible emulsion of water-insoluble film former
      • Selective 2,4-D and dicamba EC formulations
      • Low-cost glyphosate SP formulation
      • Novel penetrants
      • Loaded nanoparticles
      • Pyraclostrobin microcapsule formulation
      • Reduced anatagonism with pinoxaden
      • Poorly water-soluble surfactants for drift control
      • Adjuvant compositions
      • Moderate release formulation for aquatic weed control
    • News in brief
      • New safe and effective formulation for paraquat
      • Adjuvants for herbicides in onions
      • Fungicide formulations against pathogens associated with grapevine trunk diseases
      • Surfactant effect on foliar penetration of epoxiconazole
      • Application of chitosan and lignosulphonate in microcapsules
      • Effects of seed treatments, surfactants and foliar fungicides on the control of dry bean anthracnose
    • Media
    • Agenda of meetings online
    • Advertising companies online
    • Literature with hyperlinks to the original sources
    • Item of the month: Banana peel as an adsorbent for removing atrazine and ametryne from waters

     

    May/June 2013

    • Paraquat discussion continues
      • Formulation developments
    • Adjuvants effective against powdery mildew in zucchini (courgette)
    • Book review: Agricultural Adjuvants for Crop Protection
    • New members for ISAA Society Board
    • Patents in brief 
      • Storage-stable OP insecticides with chloropicrin
      • Antifoam improves pyridine sulfonamide SC’s
      • Novel solvent system based on acyl morpholine
      • Novel adjuvant based on fatty acid ester and silicone surfactant
      • New adjuvant-herbicide compositions for Clearfield Crops
      • Surfactant system for diquat and paraquat
      • Palm oil based solvent
      • Thickening composition
      • Aromatic phosphate ester adjuvants
      • Fast dispersing solid formulations
    • News in brief
      • An oil-based formulation of Isaria fumosorosea blastospores for management of greenhouse whitefly
      • Improvement phloem mobility fipronil
      • Effective gelatin capsule formulation of 1,3-dichloropropene and chloropicrin
      • Improvement of Ca2+-tolerance by the introduction of EO groups for the anionic surfactants
      • Ibuprofen loaded nanoparticles
    • Symposia links to abstracts
    • Media
    • Agenda of meetings 
    • Advertising companies online
    • Literature with hyperlinks to the original sources
    • Item of the month: Micro-nanospores for controlling pesticide loss

       

      July/August 2013

      • Clay-surfactant systems reduce release rate of herbicides
      • News in brief
        • Amphibian decline cannot be linked to glyphosate use
      • Patents in brief 
        • Ammonium sulphate with high guar gum derivative content
        • Haziness tells action of spray drift control agents
        • Microcapsule for seed treatment by stirring type machinery
        • Insecticides encapsulated with cyclodextrins
        • Microencapsulated insecticides and repellents
        • Improved granular cyhalofop-butyl herbicide for rice
        • Acid stable silane surfactant
        • Adjuvants to reduce pesticide dose
        • Adjuvant for larvicides
        • Bait spheres
      • Media
      • Symposia abstracts ACS Fall 2013 National Meeting & Exhibition and 2013 APS Annual Meeting
      • Literature with hyperlinks to the original sources
      • Agenda of meetings online
      • Advertising companies online
      • Item of the month: Co-application of insecticide and fungicide can be risky

         

        September/October 2013

        • Adjuvants associated with bee decline
          • Adjuvants impair learning
        • Patents in brief 
          • Chelates protect glyphosate against adsorption
          • Tank mixing order tool with adjuvant option
          • Slow release repellent for psyllid control
          • New emulsifiable granule
          • Adjuvants for herbicides with an h-acidic group
          • Lecithin-based alternatives to phosphate ester surfactants
          • Zc formulation of lambda-cyhalothrin and imidacloprid
          • New pyripyropene sc formulations
        • News in brief
          • Nanospheres loaded with metalaxyl
        • New book: Foliar fertilisation
        • Symposia links to abstracts 2013 International ASA-CSSA-SSSA Annual Meeting
        • Agenda of meetings online
        • Advertising companies online
        • Literature with hyperlinks to the original sources
        • Item of the month: Increased leaching of metrubizin by surfactant-rich irrigation water

           

          November/December 2013

          • Innovative uses for good-old alginate
          • News in brief
            • USA pesticide statistics and politics from 1964 to 2010
            • Increasing use of herbicides in developing countries
            • Adjuvants affect degradation of atrazine in the soil
            • Formulation influences emission of dicamba
            • Interaction of organic solvents with epicuticular wax layer
            • Biopesticide formulations against sugar beet damping-off disease
          • Patents in brief 
            • Agrochemical chlorometallate ionic liquids
            • Tank-mix adjuvants for use with hard water
            • Aromatic ester drift control agents for auxinic herbicides
            • Novel granule
            • New avermectin formulations for trunk injection
            • Cleaver control in brassica with quinclorac plus glyphosate
            • Colour-stable aba composi¬tions, mixable with ethephon
          • Symposia abstracts 10th International Congress of Plant Pathology, 24th Asian-Pacific Weed Science Society Conference, and Entomology 2013
          • Literature with hyperlinks to the original sources
          • Agenda of meetings online
          • Advertising companies online
          • Item of the month: Histidine promotes root uptake of zinc

             

             

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