Contents 2017

January/February 2017

• Introduction of new active ingredients declines steadily
• Pest ant control improved with water-resistant bait
• Organosilicon adjuvant leaves bees susceptible to deadly virus
• News in brief
• Wetting agent improves spring green-up of ultradwarf bermudagrass putting green
• Insecticidal oil induces resistance to Potato Virus Y
• Patents in brief
• Glyphosate-fullerene adducts
• Fatty nitrile solvents
• Anionic surfactant blend as compatibility agent
• Clethodim EC formulations stabilized with surfactant mixtures
• Aerial application of agrochemicals with low adjuvant concentration
• Surfactant combination for foliar fertilisers
• Gibberellin formulations
• Acaricidal solutions of surfactants plus tetraethyl orthosilicate
• Drift control formulation
• Fungicidal bark spray
• Drif reduction with table salt
• Solvent for concentrated gibberellin solutions
• Liquid phosphite fertiliser
• Herbicidal suspension concentrates
• Wax-encapsulated baculoviruses
• Adjuvant composition for low concentrated pesticides
• Deterring coloured clay formulations
• Stable granular formulation of propanil and MCPA
• New crystal polymorphs of active ingredients
• Symposia abstracts: APS Annual Meeting, ASA, CSSA & SSSA 2016 Annual Meeting and North Central Weed Science Society Annual Meeting
• Literature with hyperlinks to the original sources
• Agenda of meetings online
• Advertising companies online
• Item of the month: Dust-off reduction with bioplastic seed coating

March/April 2017

• Pesticide formulations according to the ionic liquid approach
• Not necessarily environmentally friendly
• Ionic liquids to overcome polymorphism
• Ionic liquid based formulations of phenoxy acid herbicides
• Viscosity modelled
• Four dozens of patent applications
• News in brief
• Direct delivery of RNAi as crop treatment
• Wetting of hydrophobic substrates by pure surfactants at continuously increasing humidity
• Effects of carrier water quality continues to attract attention
• Effect of hard water cations on the efficacy of 2,4-D choline and premixed 2,4-D choline plus glyphosate
• Effective liquid bait formulation of insecticides
• Insoluble copper formulations are more effective than soluble copper formulations for citrus canker control
• Patents in brief
• Water conditioner
• Suspension comprising water soluble solvent, inorganic thickener and alkoxylate
• Non-hygroscopic granular glyphosate and glufosinate
• Oxadiazon capsule suspension with low phytotoxicity in rice
• Photolysis-stable sulfentrazone
• Water-insoluble active ingredients transformed into water-soluble compounds
• Symposia abstracts: Weed Science Society of America Annual Meeting, ACS Spring 2017 National Meeting & Exhibition
• Literature with hyperlinks to the original sources
• Agenda of meetings online
• Advertising companies online
• Item of the month: Neonicotinoids in sugar beet cultivation in Central and Northern Europe: Efficacy and environmental impact of neonicotinoid seed treatments and alternative measures

May/June 2017

• The potential of biosurfactants
• Biosurfactants: definition
• Classes of biosurfactants
• Mode of action biosurfactants
• Effect of biosurfactants on bioefficacy of (bio)pesticides
• Listing of adjuvants for organic, ecological, integrated or biological growing of crops
• Safety of biosurfactants
• Perspectives for bio¬surfactants as adjuvants in crop protection/nutrition
• Further reading
• News in brief
• Another view on herbicide resistance management
• Controllable leaf adhesion of PLA-loaded abamectin
• Cyclodextrins for controlled release of drugs
• Micro-distance imaging method to measure droplet size
• Urea as host for insecticides
• Patents in brief
• Oil-based suspension concentrates with low gravitational separation and low viscosity
• Bicarbonate plus surfactant system
• Dimethomorph with fosetyl-aluminium as photoprotectant
• Gum blends as adjuvants
• Paintballs filled with insect pheromones
• Abamectin and bifenthrin in one capsule
• Water surface-floating granular pesticide
• Adjuvant with pH buffer capabilities
• Hasten improves efficacy of mycoherbicide
• High-load granular formulations for liquid active ingredients
• Porous silica nanoparticle as carrier
• New crystal polymorphs of active ingredients
• Environment-friendly solvent
• Defoaming agent
• Symposia abstracts: Southern Weed Science Society Annual Meeting and joint Western Society of Weed Science / Western Aquatic Plant Management Society Annual Meeting
• Literature with hyperlinks to the original sources
• Agenda of meetings online
• Advertising companies online
• Item of the month: Multi-scale roughness and the Lotus effect: Discontinuous liquid-air interfaces

July/August 2017

• The footprint of formulations
• Ecological footprint
• AkzoNobel: Making products more sustainable than most common counterpart
• BASF: In-company development of tools to quantify sustainability
• Bayer: Assessment of environmental profile of 100 formulants
• Croda: 100% renewable and 100% bio-based
• Farmer’s practice
• EAA-Innovations 2018
• News in brief
• Natural poly- and oligosaccharides as novel delivery systems
• Comparison between seed and foliar treatment
• Production and formulation of Ampelomyces quisqualis conidia
• Efficacy of herbicidal ionic liquids and choline salt based on 2,4-D
• Surfactants kill red imported fire ant workers
• Patents in brief
• Pyribencarb formulation
• Gibberellin formulations
• Solvent significantly reduces prothioconazole-desthio formation in prothioconazole-containing EC formulations
• Latex binder adjuvant for improved rainfastness
• Defoamers for high electrolyte compositions
• Stabilised terpene emulsifiable concentrates
• High load glyphosates with relatively low viscosity
• Aqueous dispersions of aclonifen and flufenacet
• Non-staining ZC formulations of pendimethalin and incompatible co-herbicide
• EC formulations of prosulfocarb and tri-allate
• Efficacy-enhancing agent composition
• Fatty alcohols
• Literature with hyperlinks to the original sources
• Agenda of meetings online
• Advertising companies online
• Item of the month: A dog as a generalist plant detection tool

September/October 2017

• Chinese tank-mix adjuvants rarely reach the western world
• Many formulants, but few tank-mix additives
• News in brief
• Spray droplet impaction outcomes for different plant species and spray formulations
• Leaf surface polarity characterized in isolation from roughness
• Polymeric nanoparticles as a metolachlor carrier
• Solubilisation of oils in aqueous solutions of a random cationic copolymer
• A fatty acid solvent of switchable miscibility
• ß-glucan as emulsifier in biopesticide encapsulation
• Complexation with metals improves tebuconazole performance
• Interaction of engineered nanofertilisers with the agri-environment
• Glucamide-based adjuvant for high-electrolyte agrochemical formulations
• Patents in brief
• Vascular fungi trigger release of injected fungicide
• Thickeners to reduce spillage
• New granular carrier for soil-applied pyrethroids
• Granular esfenvalerate formulation for soil application
• Drift control agents for glyphosate plus 2,4-D or dicamba
• Water-surface-floating herbicide
• Insect repellent
• Drift reduction adjuvant for traditional and air induction nozzles
• Dispersant
• Liposomal formulations
• Other interesting applications
• Symposia abstracts: 46^th IUPAC World Chemistry Congress (IUPAC-2017), APS Annual Meeting, ACS Fall 2017 National Meeting & Exposition, ASA, CSSA & SSSA 2017 Annual Meeting and Entomology 2017
• Literature with hyperlinks to the original sources
• Agenda of meetings online
• Advertising companies online
• Item of the month: Different techniques to assess the risk of dust drift from pesticide-coated seeds

November/December 2017

• The relevance of humectants in drying drop deposits
• Compounds with (presumed) humectancy
• Definitions used in relation to hygroscopic chemicals
• Literature
• Must-attend meeting highlights the latest in adjuvant and formulation trends
• News in brief
• Novel emulsifier: frost grape polysaccharide
• Biobased, biodegradable and environmentally-friendly – what is in a name?
• Water permeability of olive fruit and leaf cuticles
• Diblock dispersant for powder stabilization
• Launch of low foam adjuvant
• Patents in brief
• EC formulation for pyridachlometyl
• Pyraclostrobin formulations with water-insoluble UV absorber
• Polar solvent package for EC formulations of polar active ingredients
• Plastisol coating for granular fertilisers
• Nano formulations that are claimed to open closed stomata
• Ester-modified organosilicon surfactants enhance glyphosate uptake
• High-load propiconazole formulation
• Stable copper plus chitosan formulation
• Natamycin formulations
• Timed-release-type granular formulations of phytotoxic agrochemicals
• New crystalline forms of cyflufenamid and sulfentrazone
• Highly concentrated glyphosate formulations
• Stable aqueous compositions of glyphosate and dichlobenil
• Adjuvant that reduces volatility and drift of auxins
• Emulsion polymers that improve rainfastness
• Granular dichlobentiazox formulation
• Adjuvants for metrafenone, pyriofenone
• Formulation for fenquinotrione
• Storage-stable formulations containing filamentous mycopesticide and acetic acid
• 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: Surface tension measurement with a smartphone

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