Composition and method for improving plant growth
AssigneeSyngenta Crop Protection AG
InventorClifford Watrin
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Abstract
The present invention relates to plant-protecting active ingredient mixtures having synergistically enhanced action and to a method of improving the growth of plants, comprising applying to the plants or the locus thereof at least three active ingredient components together. Specifically, a mixture of fludioxonil (I), metalaxyl (II) and a strobilurin fungicide (III) achieves markedly enhanced action against plant pathogens and is suitable for improving the growth of plants when applied to plants, parts of plants, seeds, or at their locus of growth.
Claims30
A synergistically enhanced crop protection composition comprising fungicidally effective amounts of a mixture of metalaxyl (I), fludioxonil (II), a strobilurin fungicide (III) and an agronomically acceptable carrier.
A composition according to claim 3, wherein the metalaxyl has an R-enantiomer content of more than 70% by weight.
A method of improving the growth of plants and controlling or preventing fungal infestation in plants, parts of plants, seeds, or at their locus of growth, which comprises applying in any desired sequence, simultaneously or in succession, synergistic fungicidally effective amounts of a mixture of metalaxyl, fludioxonil and a strobilurin fungicide.
A pre-mix formulation comprising fungicidally effective amounts of a mixture of metalaxyl (I), fludioxonil (II), a strobilurin fungicide (III) and an agronomically acceptable carrier.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.