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US 2018/0007894 A1Published application
Aqueous compositions for treating seeds, seeds treated therewith, and methods for treating seeds
AssigneesCovestro LLC, Bayer CropScience AG
InventorsAbdullah Ekin, James A. Thompson-Colon, Timothy Pike, Scott Grace, Jinqi Li, Ronald Reichert, William S. Hanson
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Abstract
Disclosed are seed treatment compositions that include: (A) an aqueous polyurethane dispersion; and (B) an insecticide, a fungicide, a nematicide, and/or other pesticides. Also disclosed are seeds treated with such a treatment compositions and methods for treating a seed using such treatment composition.
Claims22
An aqueous seed treatment composition comprising:
- (A) an aqueous polyurethane dispersion;
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- (B) one or more insecticides, fungicides, nematicides, and/or other pesticides,
- wherein the aqueous polyurethane dispersion forms a film exhibiting:
- (a) a Tg of −48° C. to −4° C.,
- (b) a percent elongation of 44 to 300,
- (c) a tensile strength of 2500 lb/in2 (17.2 MPa) to 4100 lb/in2 (28.3 MPa), and
- (d) optionally a microhardness of up to 45.4 N/mm2,
- wherein the seed is selected from the group consisting of corn seed, sorghum seed, oat seed, rye seed, barley seed, soybean seed, vegetable seed, wheat seed, sugarbeat seed, rice, sunflower seed, lettuce seed, and spinach seed
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