Method of improving yield and vigor of plants
US7687434B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Dec 19, 2001 |
| Grant date | Mar 30, 2010 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Dec 19, 2021 |
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- Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
- CPC primaryA01N55/00
- WIPO fieldBasic materials chemistry
- WIPO sectorChemistry
Abstract
A method of improving the yield and vigor of agronomic plants, in particular leguminous plants such as soybeans, involves treating such plants and/or the propagation material of plants with a composition that includes an active agent, such as a fungicide, that has no significant activity against fungal plant pathogens of the treated plant. When the plant is not wheat, a preferred agent of this type is 4,5-dimethyl-N-(2-propenyl)-2-(trimethylsilyl)-3-thiophenecarboxamide (silthiofam). Plants and plant propagation material, such as seeds, that have been treated by the novel method are also described.
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