Potato quality
AssigneeSyngenta Crop Protection AG
InventorsElmar Kerber, Duncan McKenzie
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
Potato quality is improved by applying to the plant or to the locus of the plant a composition comprising (a) a compound capable of forming a chelate with iron or (b) a chelate of iron with a chelate-forming compound. Specific quality improvements include increasing the dry matter content, increasing the starch content and reducing the reducing sugar content. A preferred iron chelate is that of EDDHA, available commercially as SEQUESTRENE 138 Fe 100.
Claims6
A method of increasing the dry matter content of potatoes and/or increasing the starch content of potatoes and/or reducing the reducing sugar content of potatoes which comprises applying to the potato plant or to the locus of the potato plant a composition comprising ethylene diamine dihydroxyphenyl acetate or an iron chelate of ethylene diamine dihydroxyphenyl acetate.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.