Treated horticultural substrates

US6464995B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignees

• Engelhard Corporation · US
• The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture · US

Inventors

• Dennis G. Sekutowski · Stockton, US
• Gary J. Puterka · Harpers Ferry, US
• David Michael Glenn · Harpers Ferry, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 20, 2000
• Grant date: Oct 15, 2002
• Expiry date: Apr 20, 2020

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T428/662
• WIPO field: Basic materials chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

Disclosed are horticultural substrates coated with a particulate membrane and a method for controlling pests and providing enhanced horticultural effect by applying a particulate membrane to the surface of the horticultural substrate.