Contents 2015

January/February 2015

• Weaken your resistant weeds and then kill them
• Disease and pest resistance
• Like cures like
• Magnetic field reduces cation antagonism to weak acid pesticides
• Hydrogel baits offer novel way to manage invasive ants
• News in brief
• Adjuvants reduce costs of growth regulation in pelargonium
• Biopesticides: state of the art
• Penetration of nanocarriers into red pepper leaf
• pH dependent release from alginate sodium-caseinate capsules
• Researchers suspect soil conditioning by alginate-based by delivery systems
• Complexed sprout inhibitor
• A goniometric mask to measure contact angles from digital images of liquid drops
• Fungal formulation removes chlorpyrifos residue from vegetables
• Biopesticide with corrosion inhibitor
• Does shaking increase the pressure inside a bottle of champagne?
• Speciality database of agrochemicals
• APP: Tank Mix & Rainfast Guide app
• Patents in brief
• Mesotrione suspoemulsions stabilized with cyclodextrin
• New glufosinate formulations
• New water conditioners
• Solvents for stable metconazole plus metalaxyl dispersible concentrate seed treatment formulations
• Humidity activated ethylene inhibitor
• Liquid fertiliser-compatible bifenthrin formulations
• High-load herbicide EC’s
• Coatable magnesium fertiliser
• Solvent-free emulsifier
• New acetal ester solvents
• Storage-stable and transparent pyrethroid formulations
• Self-microemulsifying delivery system
• Storage-stable composition containing boscalid and kresoxim-methyl
• Alcohol ether sulphate preparation
• Emamectin benzoate formulation
• Symposia abstracts: North Central Weed Science Society Annual Meeting, Northeastern Weed Science Society Annual Meeting, Weed Science Society of America Annual Meeting and CPNB 2014: The Dundee Conference
• Literature with hyperlinks to the original sources
• Agenda of meetings online
• Advertising companies online
• Item of the month: Leaves of phosphorus deficient wheat are more wettable, but poorly permeable

March/April 2015

• Formulating fertilisers for effective foliar absorption
• Uptake and translocation
• Keeping foliar fertiliser ‘wet’
• Two uptake routes for foliar fertilisers
• Importance of phloem mobility
• Oil-based adjuvants enhance uptake of foliar applied nutrients
• Urea improves iron uptake
• Calcium with adjuvant
• Lignosulfonates differ in performance
• Adjuvant improves calcium performance
• To add a surfactant, or not to ad?
• Foliar zinc fertilisers differ in phloem mobility
• News in brief
• Common inerts harmful to bees
• Wetting agents differ widely in efficacy
• Patents in brief
• New carrier for urease inhibitor
• Stabilizing with chitosan derivates
• Novel boron fertiliser compositions
• Multifunctional adjuvant composition
• Humectant from microfibrillated cellulose
• Foamable formulations for seed furrow application
• New liquid fertiliser-compatible bifenthrin formulations
• Anilide herbicide with carbamate crystallization suppressant
• Photoluminescent adjuvant
• Storage-stable aqueous suspension of flonicamid and buprofezin
• Book reviews and announcements
• Introduction to polymer-clay nanocomposites
• Micro and nanostructured polymer systems
• Smart wormlike micelles
• Pesticide application methods
• Symposia abstracts: Southern Weed Science Society and the Western Society of Weed Science
• Media: A selection of agrochemistry related news in other media
• Literature with hyperlinks to the original sources
• Agenda of meetings online
• Advertising companies online
• Item of the month: IPM drives resistance of apple scab to fungicides

May/June 2015

• Seed coating additives improve germination in dry soil
• Patent publications covering seed coating additives to improve germination in dry soil
• Further reading about soil water repellency and seed coating additives to improve germination in dry soil
• News in brief
• Biosurfactants induce resistance against potato late blight
• Researchers ask attention for bioemulsifiers
• Leaching behavior of two pendimethalin formulations in pine bark based medium
• Copper nanoparticles more beneficial than copper sulphate
• Controlled-release fertiliser prepared using a biodegradable aliphatic copolyester
• Recycled bioplastic pellets as a carrier for an Aspergillus flavus biocontrol strain
• Volatility of three formulations of 2,4-D
• APP: WeedSmart app
• Patents in brief
• OD formulation comprising nicosulfuron and sulcotrione polymorph
• Alternative to polysorbates
• Safer use of non-selective herbicides in sensitive crops
• CO₂ foliar fertiliser formulations
• Concentrated polysaccharide ether adjuvant compositions
• Adjuvant system for low-volume oil spray mixtures
• Oil reduces drift sensitivity of EC’s
• Molecular complexes of hexaconazole and imidacloprid
• Liposome as carrier for attractant and pesticide
• Picolinafen SC formulations with crystal growth inhibitor
• Metsulfuron-methyl stabilized by thifensulfuron-methyl
• Additive to structure adjuvant based systems
• Literature with hyperlinks to the original sources
• Agenda of meetings online
• Advertising companies online
• Item of the month: Microbe triggered controlled release of kasugamycin from a pectin conjugate

July/August 2015

• Wrap and plant: Tackling nematodes with abamectin-impregnated banana paper
• Abamectin performs well with plant virus as carrier
• Symposium: The Future of Adjuvants
• News in brief
• Crop oil improves performance of saflufenacil against horseweed
• Polymer micelles are promising delivery systems
• Application of biosurfactants in drug delivery
• Measuring the polarity of plant cuticles
• Semi-high throughput screening for biopesticide amendments and stabilizers
• Patents in brief
• Solvents for urease and nitrification inhibitors
• New solvents from vegetable origin
• Adjuvant composition to improve long term storage-stability above room temperature
• Low VOC gibberellic acid formulations
• Pymetrozine SC formulations
• Slow-release mosquito-killing Bt formulation
• Drift control agent
• Ethoxylated lecithin based adjuvant
• Triggered-release of nutrients and active ingredients
• Impact resistant sulphur for coating fertilisers
• New glufosinate formulations
• Avermectin formulations
• Adjuvant for glyphosate
• Combination of sulphonylurea and triazolopyrimidine herbicides
• 2,4-D microemulsion concentrate
• Symposia abstracts: International Symposium on Crop Protection, 2015 APS Annual Meeting and ACS Fall National Meeting & Exhibition
• Media: A selection of agrochemistry related news in other media
• Literature with hyperlinks to the original sources
• Agenda of meetings online
• Advertising companies online
• Item of the month: Mass spectrometry imaging analysis of location of procymidone in cucumber samples

September/October 2015

• Molecular imaging reveals field performance of agrochemicals
• Futher reading about mass spectroscopy imaging of agrochemicals
• Symposium: The Future of Adjuvants
• News in brief
• Oil-based pesticides most effective at killing contents of brown widow spider egg sacs
• Uptake pathways for root-aplied hydrophilic and hydrophobic compounds
• Photoprotection with starch/montmorillonite composites
• APPs: Modes of Action app and IRAC Mode of Action Classification app
• Patents in brief
• Growth substrate as carrier for biopesticides
• Water dispersible granule containing microencapsulated agrochemcial
• High-load pyrethroid encapsulated seed treatment formulations
• Carbonates of alcohol alkoxylates as adjuvants
• Novel copper algicide
• Odour control for organothiophosphate formulations
• Emamectin benzoate
• Imazamox plus chlorimuron-ethyl OD formulation
• Aldehydes formulated with nanoparticles and/or nanoemulsions
• Symposia abstracts: Entomology 2015
• Book reviews and announcements
• Interfacial phenomena and colloid stability
• Nanodispersions
• Retention, uptake and translocation of agrochemicals in plants
• Biopesticides
• Overview of recently published books related to all kinds of formulation aspects
• Literature with hyperlinks to the original sources
• Agenda of meetings online
• Advertising companies online
• Item of the month: Alginate microspheres for oral delivery of proteinaceous bioinsecticides

November/December 2015

• Adjuvants affect efficacy of biopesticides
• Future of Adjuvants symposium highlights the latest in adjuvant and formulation trends
• News in brief
• Surfactant may help redistribute fungicide from grass leaf blade to lower plant canopy
• Pores are key factor in water dispersible granule disintegration
• Crop-safe atrazine carrying nanocapsule formulation
• Bioherbicide produces its own sticker
• APP: BeeConnected app
• Patents in brief
• Additives for suspending solids in oil based formulations
• Seed treatment formulation
• Drift control with paraffinic oil
• Improved rainfastness with styrene-maleimide co-polymer
• Pickering emulsion formulations
• Hydroxyalkyl polyoxylene glycol ether adjuvants
• Liquid fertiliser compositions comprising an auxin
• Fertiliser adjuvant with colour indicators for proper dosing
• Symposia abstracts: Pacifichem 2015 and ASA, CSSA & SSSA 2015 Annual meeting
• Literature with hyperlinks to the original sources
• Agenda of meetings online
• Advertising companies online
• Item of the month: Cyanobacteria as carrier in controlled-release tebuconazole formulations

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