US 11,700,853 B2
Plant health compositions comprising a water-soluble pesticide and a water-insoluble agrochemical
William Abraham, Wildwood, MO (US); Andrew Dyszlewski, St. Louis, MO (US); John W. Hemminghaus, Crestwood, MO (US); Frank C. Kohn, St. Louis, MO (US); Daniel R. Wright, St. Louis, MO (US); and Junhua Zhang, Chesterfield, MO (US)
Assigned to Monsanto Technology LLC, St. Louis, MO (US)
Filed by Monsanto Technology LLC, St. Louis, MO (US)
Filed on Jun. 9, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/896,827.
Application 16/896,827 is a division of application No. 13/634,076, granted, now 10,709,134, previously published as PCT/US2011/028375, filed on Mar. 14, 2011.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/313,436, filed on Mar. 12, 2010.
Prior Publication US 2020/0296968 A1, Sep. 24, 2020
Int. Cl. A01N 57/20 (2006.01); A01N 25/04 (2006.01); A01N 43/60 (2006.01); A01N 43/653 (2006.01)
CPC A01N 57/20 (2013.01) [A01N 25/04 (2013.01); A01N 43/60 (2013.01); A01N 43/653 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
 
1. A microemulsion concentrate composition comprising (i) an aqueous carrier phase comprising at least one water-soluble pesticide in solution in the carrier phase, wherein the water-soluble pesticide is in the form of a salt, (ii) a surfactant phase comprising (a) a surfactant component comprising at least one surfactant and (b) at least one water-insoluble agrochemical, and (iii) an organic solvent,
wherein the at least one water-insoluble agrochemical is selected from the group consisting of azoxystrobin, beflubutamide, benalaxyl, benalaxyl-M, bromuconazole, clodinafop-propargyl, coumaphos, dinitriamine, dodemorph acetate, fentrazamide, flamprop-M-isopropyl, flamprop-M-methyl, flurochloridone, flutolanil, indanofan, ipconazole, kresoxim-methyl, metconazole, picoxystrobin, pyraclostrobin, tebuconazole, thenylchlor, thiazopyr, quizalofop-p-ethyl, and combinations thereof,
at least 50% by weight of the water-insoluble agrochemical is present as a solute in the surfactant component,
the water-soluble pesticide concentration is at least 400 grams active equivalent per liter of the concentrate composition, and
the weight ratio of the organic solvent to the water-insoluble agrochemical on an active equivalent basis is less than 3:1.