Novel plant essential oil and wax formulations for use as pesticides and plant biostimulants

Abstract

The present invention relates to the infusion of polycosanols, including triacontanol (C30-OH), into essential-oil-based pesticides for the purpose of mitigating phytotoxicity inherent in essential-oil-based pesticides and for introducing the plant biostimulant triacontanol (C30-OH). Such formulations are typically combined with one or more emulsifier and water and applied to plants as a spray or fog to foliage, or pruning cuts, or as a root zone drench, or to seeds, for purposes of insect and disease suppression, and for increasing plant growth and/or yields and/or quality of yields and/or stimulating an immune response for controlling diseases. All claims for such benefits of essential oils as pesticides and of triacontanol as a plant biostimulant are supported by numerous studies in peer review journals. The invention improves upon existing essential-oil-based pesticides by reducing phytotoxicity from the addition of waxes, and by introducing the potent plant biostimulant wax, triacontanol.

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