Method for combating harmful fungi

US8748347B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• BASF SE

Inventors

• Richard Riggs · Mannheim, DE
• Dieter Strobel · Herxheim am Berg, DE
• Jochen Prochnow · Neustadt, DE
• Helmut Herrmann · Hersbruck, DE
• Michael Ishaque · Mannheim, DE
• Christian Bittner · Bensheim, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 25, 2010
• Grant date: Jun 10, 2014
• Expiry date: Mar 25, 2030

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02A50/30
• WIPO field: Basic materials chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

The present invention relates to methods, use and compositions for combating harmful fungi and bacteria in plants. More specifically, it relates to methods and compositions for controlling, preventing, or treating plant pathogens using UV filters for combating phytotoxin-producing fungi and/or bacteria, in particular, for combating harmful fungi and/or bacteria producing photodynamically active phytotoxins.