Method of combatting pruning wound diseases
AssigneeSandoz Ltd.
InventorsMarc Barnavon, Philippe Dutruel, Rene Ravaux
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Abstract
The invention relates to a method of combatting pruning wound diseases in plants employing a compound of the formula ##STR1## wherein X is H or Cl and R is butyl, 1-cyclopropyl-ethyl or 1-cyclopropyl-1-methylethyl, or associations of a compound of the formula with appropriate fungicides. The invention comprises also hydrophobic compositions for combatting pruning wound diseases, comprising an effective amount of an appropriate fungicide and/or bactericide in an oily, thixotropic, hydrophobic non-phytotoxic medium.
Claims16
The method of combatting pruning wound diseases caused by microorganism selected from the group consisting of Cylindrocarpon mali, Cytospora cincta, Erwinia amylovora, Pseudomonas spp., Agrobacterium tumefaciens, Erwinia vitivora, Stereum hirsutum and Eutypa lata in pruning wounds on trees and perennial vines subject to infection by such microorganism, comprising applying to the pruning wound on a tree or perrenial vine subject to infection by such a micoorganism a composition comprising a pruning wound disease combatting effective amount of a compound of the formula ##STR3## wherein X is H or Cl, and
- R is butyl, 1-cyclopropyl-ethyl or 1-cyclopropyl-1-methyl-ethyl,
- said compound being in free base form or in agriculturally acceptable acid addition salt form.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.