Contents 2017

 

January/February March/April May/June
July/August
September/October
November/December

 

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: 46th 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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