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Use of neonicotinoids in pest control

US8399378B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Syngenta Crop Protection AG · CH

Inventors

Bruce Lee · Bad Krozingen, DE
Marius Sutter · Basel, CH
Hubert Buholzer · Binningen, CH

Key dates

Filing date	Aug 14, 2008
Grant date	Mar 19, 2013
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jan 31, 2029

Classification

Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
CPC primaryA01N51/00
WIPO fieldBasic materials chemistry
WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

There is now described a method of controlling pests with nitroimino- or nitroguanidino-compounds; more specificallya method of controlling pests in and on transgenic crops of useful plants, such as, for example, in crops of maize, cereals, soya beans, tomatoes, cotton, potatoes, rice and mustard, with a nitroimino- or nitroguanidino-compound, especially with thiamethoxam, characterized in that a pesticidal composition comprising a nitroimino- or nitroguanidino-compound in free form or in agrochemically useful salt form and at least one auxiliary is applied to the pests or their environment, in particular to the crop plant itself.

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