Control of shoot/foliar feeding pests with pesticide seed treatments
AssigneeMonsanto Technology LLC
InventorFrank C. Kohn
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Abstract
A method of preventing damage to the shoots and foliage of a plant by a pest includes treating the seed from which the plant grows with a composition that includes at one pyrethrin or synthetic pyrethroid. In another embodiment, the pesticide is not limited to pyrethrins or synthetic pyrethroids when the seed is a transgenic seed having at least one heterologous gene encoding for the expression of a protein having pesticidal activity against a first pest and the pesticide has activity against at least one second pest. Treated seeds are also provided.
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A method of protecting a transgenic plant against damage by multiple pests, the method comprising treating a seed from which the transgenic plant grows, which seed has at least one heterologous gene encoding for the expression of a protein that is active against a first pest, with a composition comprising at least one pyrethrin or pyrethroid that is selected on the basis of its pesticidal activity against a pest that is different from the first pest and which has a vapor pressure of less than 6 mPa at 20° C. in an amount of at least 88 grams per 100 kilograms of the seed, and wherein the seed is selected from the group consisting of corn, soybean, cotton, rice, sorghum, wheat, barley, rye, sunflower, tomato, sugarcane, tobacco, rape and oats.
A method of protecting a transgenic plant against damage by multiple pests, the method comprising treating a seed from which the transgenic plant grows, which seed has at least one heterologous gene encoding for the expression of a protein that is active against a first pest, with a composition comprising at least one pyrethrin or pyrethroid which is selected on the basis of its activity in preventing damage to the shoots and foliage of the plant by an insect that is different from the first pest and which has a vapor pressure of less than 6 mPa at 20° C. in an amount of at least 88 grams per 100 kilograms of the seed, and wherein the seed is selected from the group consisting of corn, soybean, cotton, rice, sorghum, wheat, barley, rye, sunflower, tomato, sugarcane, tobacco, rape and oats.
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