EP0020337A1 - New plant technique - Google Patents

New plant technique

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EP0020337A1
EP0020337A1 EP79900286A EP79900286A EP0020337A1 EP 0020337 A1 EP0020337 A1 EP 0020337A1 EP 79900286 A EP79900286 A EP 79900286A EP 79900286 A EP79900286 A EP 79900286A EP 0020337 A1 EP0020337 A1 EP 0020337A1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65G—TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A01—AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; HUNTING; TRAPPING; FISHING
    • A01N—PRESERVATION OF BODIES OF HUMANS OR ANIMALS OR PLANTS OR PARTS THEREOF; BIOCIDES, e.g. AS DISINFECTANTS, AS PESTICIDES OR AS HERBICIDES; PEST REPELLANTS OR ATTRACTANTS; PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS
    • A01N25/00—Biocides, pest repellants or attractants, or plant growth regulators, characterised by their forms, or by their non-active ingredients or by their methods of application, e.g. seed treatment or sequential application; Substances for reducing the noxious effect of the active ingredients to organisms other than pests
    • A01N25/32—Ingredients for reducing the noxious effect of the active substances to organisms other than pests, e.g. toxicity reducing compositions, self-destructing compositions
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A01—AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; HUNTING; TRAPPING; FISHING
    • A01N—PRESERVATION OF BODIES OF HUMANS OR ANIMALS OR PLANTS OR PARTS THEREOF; BIOCIDES, e.g. AS DISINFECTANTS, AS PESTICIDES OR AS HERBICIDES; PEST REPELLANTS OR ATTRACTANTS; PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS
    • A01N61/00—Biocides, pest repellants or attractants, or plant growth regulators containing substances of unknown or undetermined composition, e.g. substances characterised only by the mode of action

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  • This invention relates to agricultural chemicals, which term is used herein to mean fungicides, herbicides, insecticides, nematocides and plant-growth regulators, and to methods of using them and compositions containing them.
  • the present invention is concerned with altering the performance of such chemicals.
  • the conventional approach to this involves altering the chemical structure to a greater or lesser degree without altering the class or basic chemical type to which the compound belongs, and/or altering the physico-chemical properties of a formulation containing the chemical, e.g. by the addition of chemicals to facilitate coating of the target organism with the agricultural chemical or to improve the adhesion and rainfastness of the agricultural chemical.
  • the literature (including patents) is full of examples of how the conventional approach may be carried out. In particular, it is known that addition of wetting agents can enhance the effect of many agricultural chemicals.
  • the invention is based on the discovery that the efficiency of agricultural chemicals can be markedly improved and that such chemicals can in some cases be used in new and different ways by modifying the organism to which the agricultural chemical is applied, such modification being effected by means of a second chemical herein called an additive.
  • the additive acts in either or both of the following ways, viz., it modifies the way in which the organism takes up and/or moves or internally distributes the chemical, and/or it modifies the metabolism of the organism without affecting take-up or distribution of the chemical, thereby achieving the desired action or improvement in action of the agricultural chemical.
  • the invention provides an agricultural formulation comprising an agricultural chemical as hereinbefore defined together with an additive as hereinafter defined. Such formulations may be in concentrate form, needing addition of, for example, water to make them ready for use.
  • the invention also provides a method of applying an agricultural chemical to a target organism, in which an additive as hereinafter defined is also applied either simultaneously with the agricultural chemical or not more than 15 days (preferably 10 days) before or after.
  • an additive as hereinafter defined is also applied either simultaneously with the agricultural chemical or not more than 15 days (preferably 10 days) before or after.
  • the agricultural chemical and additive may be supplied in a single formulation or may be mixed in situ in a spray or other chemical-applying apparatus.
  • additives used in the formulations and methods of the present invention are defined as belonging to one of the following classes (a) to (h), although two or more such additives in the same or different classes may be used, as may two or more agricultural chemicals :
  • a carbohydrate source e.g. glucose, hydrolysed starch, sucrose, fructose, glycerol, glyceraldehyde, erythrose, ribulose, xylulose and arabinose and their esters and glycosides and metabolic equivalents of carbohydrates
  • a carbohydrate source e.g. glucose, hydrolysed starch, sucrose, fructose, glycerol, glyceraldehyde, erythrose, ribulose, xylulose and arabinose and their esters and glycosides and metabolic equivalents of carbohydrates
  • NADH reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide
  • NADPH reduced nicotamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate
  • an organic acid particularly one o the Krebs Tricarboxylic Acid Cycle and. their metabolic precursors, (including citric, succinic, malic, pyruvic, acetic and fumaric acids), which will normally be applied at similar rates to and used for similar functions as the carbohydrate source;
  • a vitamin or coenzyme e.g. thiamine, riboflavin, pyridoxine, pyridoxamine, pyridoxal, nicotinamide, folic acid, or a precursor, thereof including nicotinic acid, which will normally be applied at 0.01 to 500 g/ha to stimulate metabolic processes dependent on enzymatic action;
  • a purine or pyrimidine nucleoside, nucleotide or a metabolic precursor thereof e.g. adenine, adenosine, thymine, thymidine, cytosine, guanine, guanosine, hypoxanthine, uracil, uridine or inosine, which will normally be applied at 1 to 500 g/ha to act as structural precursors for nucleic acid synthesis;
  • a fatty acid of a type found in natural saturated and unsaturated fats e.g. butyric, lauric, palmitic, stearic, oleic and iinoleic acid, which will normally be applied at 10 to 10,000 g/ha to act as precursors of molecules required in growth process and through their degradation to provide a source of ATP and NADPH as with a carbohydrate source;
  • a naturally occurring fat or oil including olive, soya, coconut and corn oils, which can be degraded by living organisms to fatty acids and which will normally be applied at 10 to 10,000 g/ha;
  • an amino acid of a type that occurs naturally in plant proteins e.g. glycine, alanine, valine, leucine, isoleucine, serine, threonine, cysteine, methionine, aspartic acid, glutamic acid, glutamine, asparagine, lysine, hydroxylysine, arginine, histidine, phenylalanine, tyrosine, tryptophan, proline or hydroxy- proline, which will normally be applied at 1 to 500 g/ha to act as structural units for newly formed proteins or by their degradation to function in a similar manner to fatty acids and carbohydrates; (h) a naturally occurring plant-growth regulator
  • an applied pesticide e.g. indole-3-acetic acid and gibberellic acid, which are normally used in amount such that the final concentration in a spray applied to the crop is 0.5 to 1000 parts per million by weight.
  • the additives in groups (a) to (g) above are especially effective in enhancing the plant-growth-regulating effect of quaternary ammonium compounds of the formula R-N(CH 3 ) 3 -Y in which Y is a non-phytotoxic anion and R is a lower aliphatic radical
  • a non-ionizing nucleophilic group or atom e.g. haloalkyl, alkylene, haloalkylene, cyanoalkyl, mercaptoalkyl, alkoxyalkyl, alkylthioalkyl or epithio- alkyl.
  • haloalkyl alkylene, haloalkylene, cyanoalkyl, mercaptoalkyl, alkoxyalkyl, alkylthioalkyl or epithio- alkyl.
  • chloro-choline chloride which has the systematic chemical name ⁇ -chloro-ethyl trimethylammonium chloride. It is also known as chlormequat or CCC.
  • the known action of such compounds when applied as a foli spray includes the ability to shorten and strengthen the stems of wheat, oats and rye, though not of barley or rice. Such a shorten and strengthening is sometimes, though not consistently, accompanie by the formation of a better developed root system and the survival of a higher proportion of the tillers or side shoots. While such effects on roots and tillers where they occur may be beneficial in themselves, the principle use of a chlormequat or similar treatment has been to prevent the 'lodging' or collapsing of the cereal plant as the result of strong winds. Such lodging being known to result in loss of yield and difficulty in harvesting.
  • compositions in accordance with the present invention can enhance the effectiveness of chlormequat, especially under poor growing conditions, for example, where the temperature for some days after application of the growth regulator does not exceed 10oC.
  • This condition is commonly encountered during the time at which a cereal plant is reaching the end of the growth stage in which tillers are produced (Growth Stage 4-5). It is frequently desirable to apply the growth regulator at this stage, because certain fungicides and herbicides are also desirably applied before Growth Stage 6, and because crop damage is more likely to occur when the plant has been treated during Growth Stage 6 (at which stage the first 'node' or joint has formed on the tiller) and then encounters a check to growth, as for instance the result of drought.
  • the normal range of application times is from Growth Stage 4 - Growth Stage 6, all of which occur early in the year when the temperatures may be low.
  • compositions of the present invention may also be used to obtain an action on other cereal plants where chlormequat on its own has failed to give a useful result, as for instance with barley and rice, and to reduce the application rate of chlormequat.
  • Such additives may also be beneficially used with other cereal-growth regulators to obtain effects similar to those obtained by their use in conjunction with chlormequat.
  • Such cereal-growth regulators include, but are not limited to, the following growth regulators used singly or in combination, including combinations with the quaternary ammonium growth regulators described above :- 1.
  • Haloalkyl phosphoric acids particularly ⁇ -haloalkyl-phosphoric acids and especially acids in which the halogen is chlorine
  • each of R, R 1 and R 2 which are identical or different, is a hydrogen atom or a C 1-3 alkyl radical.
  • non- phytotoxic anions are chloride, bromide, methosulphate, sulphate and phosphate.
  • a particularly useful example is 2-chloroethyl phosphoric acid. (CEPA).
  • CEPA 2-chloroethyl phosphoric acid.
  • Chlorphonium chloride i.e. tributyl -2,4 - dichloro- benzyl - phosphonium chloride.
  • X is an anion with a charge of 1 to 3;
  • Y, Y', Z and Z' are hydrogen, halogen, methyl or methoxy;
  • m is an integer from 1 tc 3; provided that only one phenyl ring can be substituted on the carbon para to the pyrazolium ring with a substituent other than hydrogen.
  • HERBICIDES Substances for killing and/or controlling unwanted plan
  • a number of herbicides check the growth of weeds so rapidly that the target plant has its metabolism so reduced that the herbicide does not completely kill it. Thus, after an interval during which the herbicide is degraded or suffers a change of form or is removed from those sites where its lethal action is exerted, the weed may then re-commence growth.
  • a particular problem in agriculture is the control of wild oats, where a number of commonly used herbicides show such an effect, especially where the wild cat has become a well established plant. By stimulating growth and uptake of applied chemicals it is possible to enhance the activity of a number of herbicides, especially against older more established weeds.
  • Herbicides that may benefit from applications in conjunction with those substances comprising the subject of this patent include, but are not limited to, those herbicides listed below.
  • the names used are those trivial names used in the "Pesticide Index":
  • Hormone type weedkillers including MCPA, 2,4-D, MCPB, 2,4-DB, Mecoprop, Dichlorprop, Ioxynil, Bromoxynil, Benazolin, Bentazone, Cyanazine, Dicamba, Dinoseb-amine, Dinoseb-acetate 15. Dalapon
  • a further aspect of this invention is the use of the substances forming this invention to enable a herbicide to be sprayed later than would otherwise have been possible. This is important since :-
  • a period of weather unfavourable to spraying may allow weeds to grow beyond the stage or size at which they may be satisfactorily controlled.
  • a particular example of the use of such substances to enable spraying to be delayed is their use in conjunction with chlortoluron,
  • a specific aspect of this invention involves the enhancement of the herbicidal activity of bipyridylium herbicides.
  • the metabolism of a target weed organism may be modified in a specific manner by modifying a distinctive biochemical pathway or reaction in order to enhance the activity of an agricultural chemical.
  • the lethal action of the bipyridyl herbicides paraquat (1, 1 1 -dimethyl-4, 4 1 dipyridylium salt) and diquat (1, 1 1 -ethylene- 2,2 dipyridylium) is the result of the formation of hydrogen peroxide when the paraquat or diquat ion, having been reduced to the free radical by the photosynthetic electron flow, is re-oxidized by molecular oxygen, thus re-forming the paraquat or diquat ion andH 2 0 2 .
  • this can happen very rapidly (especially in bright sunshine) it is possible for the herbicide to destroy superficial leaf cells where droplets of herbicide solution have fallen and thus prevent its own continued uptake into the bulk of the plant cells.
  • the speed of the lethal action may be slowed down by providing an alternative oxidation/reduction system.
  • oxidized glutathione GSSG
  • a bipyridyl herbicide can be used to re-oxidize the reduced free radical while forming reduced glutathione (GSH). If this sytem is coupled with another system or systems to re-oxidize the reduced glutathione then the glutathione will act in more than a simple stoichiometric relationship with the herbicide.
  • NADP nicotine adenine dinucleotide phosphate
  • a further system is that of ascorbic acid/dehydroascorbic acid catalysed by the enzyme ascorbic acid oxidase, which may be stimulated by the use of ascorbic acid.
  • Ascorbic acid is initially added and converted in the plant to dehydroascorbie acid-(5) below. The reactions that take place with paraquat and GSSG are thus :
  • FUNGICIDES AND INSECTICIDES i.e. substances for killing and/or controlling fungi and insects.
  • beneficial activity of these materials can be enhanced in accordance with the invention.
  • stimulating the metabolism the fungus is less able to resist the toxic effects of the chemical by having its growth temporarily restricted while a systemic fungicide or insecticide which must penetrate through the plant for maximum effect may more readily do so.
  • insecticides and fungicides where effects be beneficially modified in accordance with the invention include, but are not limited to, the following :-
  • the activity of an agricultural chemical not containing an additive as hereinbefore described as a metabolic stimulant will have its own activity stimulated or otherwise beneficially modified as the result of being applied in conjunction with an agricxiltural chemical formulated with such a substance.
  • compositions in accordance with the present invention may be reduced by including in the mixture a compound that acts as a purgative or emetic or that acts to delay uptake of the material in the alimentary canal.
  • Suitable purgatives include phenolphthalein, senna extract and castor oil.
  • Apomorphine is a useful emetic, whose effect is enhanced by the presence of ethyl alcohol.
  • the amount of emetic that is added is such that if sufficient agricultural chemical is ingested to cause a toxic response, sufficient emetic is ingested to cause emesis.
  • compositions in accordance with the invention 225 litres of spray solution is normally used per hectare.
  • the application rate is equivalent to 7-16 g. of
  • Rate of application is equivalent to 7.1 g. of Chlormequat per litre sprayed to run-off onto plants 20 cm in height.
  • Rate of application is equivalent to 1.2 kg of chlormequat per hectare (Standard (a)) and to 1.6 kg per hectare (Standard (b)) applied in 225 litres per hectare at Growth Stage 6 (1st "Node" Stage).
  • Example XI 80 Wild Oats sprayed at 7-leaf unfolded stage
  • Example VII 48 Standard formulation with additives as shown in Example XI 71
  • EXPERIMENTS 6(a) AND 6(b) Effect of Paraquat A standard commercially available formulation of paraquat, viz. Gramoxone, is compared with the same formulation to which additives as in Example VI have been added with respect to (a) to their abilities to destroy an old grass sward and (b) to kill a population of mixed and broad leaf and grass seedling weeds at from 2 - 5 leaf stage.
  • the "Standard” is a Gramoxone with additional wetting agent of the same type and in the same quantity as in Example VI and the "Standard + Additives” is Gramoxone + Additives as shown in Example VI.
  • the application rate is equivalent to 1.1 kg of paraquat per hectare in 400 litres of water. The kill of sward is assessed 4, 8 and 12 days after application.
  • Application rate is equivalent to 0.25 kg of paraquat per hectare in 200 litres of water. Control assessed at 2, 6 and 10 days after application.
  • Rate of application is equivalent to 46 g. of thiophanate per 100 litres of water sprayed to run-off.
  • the rate of application is equivalent to 60 g. of Dodine per 100 litres of water sprayed to run-off.
  • Application rate is equivalent to 250 grams of carbendazim per hectare in Standard (a) and 500 grams of carbendazim per hectare in Standard (b). Application was made at Growth Stage 5.
  • the additives used in accordance with the present invention can have an effect on the toxicity of chlormequat even without the addition of purgatives or emetics.
  • the LD 50 of aqueous chlormequat corresponding to the formulation used in Experiments 1 to 4 is 600 mg/kg, but it becomes 820 mg/kg by the addition of 47 ml of glycerol and 109 ml of alkylphenol ethylene oxide condensate per 1 kg of chlormequat.

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Abstract

L'effet de certains produits chimiques agricoles a savoir les fongicides, les herbicides, les insecticides, les nematocides et les regulateurs de croissance des plantes, est ameliore en les administrant conjointement avec les additifs suivants: hydrates de carbone, acides organiques (en particulier les acides gras et les acides du cycle Krebs d'acides tricarboxyliques), vitamines et co-enzymes, nucleosides et nucleotides de purine et de pyrimidine, graisses et huiles naturelles, certains acides amines et (mais pas lorsque le produit chimique agricole est lui-meme un regulateur de croissance vegetale) des regulateurs de croissance vegetale. L'invention fournit des compositions contenant un ou plusieurs desdits produits chimiques agricoles et un ou plusieurs desdits additifs, ainsi que des methodes d'amelioration des recoltes d'une culture donnee en y appliquant un ou plusieurs de ces produits chimiques agricoles et un ou plusieurs de ces additifs, soit simultanement, soit jusqu'a dix jours d'intervalle.The effect of certain agricultural chemicals, namely fungicides, herbicides, insecticides, nematocides and plant growth regulators, is enhanced by administering them together with the following additives: carbohydrates, organic acids (especially fatty acids and acids of the Krebs cycle of tricarboxylic acids), vitamins and co-enzymes, nucleosides and nucleotides of purine and pyrimidine, natural fats and oils, certain amino acids and (but not when the agricultural chemical itself is a plant growth regulator) plant growth regulators. The invention provides compositions containing one or more of said agricultural chemicals and one or more of said additives, as well as methods of improving the crops of a given crop by applying one or more of these agricultural chemicals and one or more. of these additives, either simultaneously or up to ten days apart.

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NEW PLANT TECHNIQUE
This invention relates to agricultural chemicals, which term is used herein to mean fungicides, herbicides, insecticides, nematocides and plant-growth regulators, and to methods of using them and compositions containing them. The present invention is concerned with altering the performance of such chemicals. The conventional approach to this involves altering the chemical structure to a greater or lesser degree without altering the class or basic chemical type to which the compound belongs, and/or altering the physico-chemical properties of a formulation containing the chemical, e.g. by the addition of chemicals to facilitate coating of the target organism with the agricultural chemical or to improve the adhesion and rainfastness of the agricultural chemical. The literature (including patents) is full of examples of how the conventional approach may be carried out. In particular, it is known that addition of wetting agents can enhance the effect of many agricultural chemicals.
The invention is based on the discovery that the efficiency of agricultural chemicals can be markedly improved and that such chemicals can in some cases be used in new and different ways by modifying the organism to which the agricultural chemical is applied, such modification being effected by means of a second chemical herein called an additive. The additive acts in either or both of the following ways, viz., it modifies the way in which the organism takes up and/or moves or internally distributes the chemical, and/or it modifies the metabolism of the organism without affecting take-up or distribution of the chemical, thereby achieving the desired action or improvement in action of the agricultural chemical.
The invention provides an agricultural formulation comprising an agricultural chemical as hereinbefore defined together with an additive as hereinafter defined. Such formulations may be in concentrate form, needing addition of, for example, water to make them ready for use. The invention also provides a method of applying an agricultural chemical to a target organism, in which an additive as hereinafter defined is also applied either simultaneously with the agricultural chemical or not more than 15 days (preferably 10 days) before or after. When the application is simultaneous, the agricultural chemical and additive may be supplied in a single formulation or may be mixed in situ in a spray or other chemical-applying apparatus.
The additives used in the formulations and methods of the present invention are defined as belonging to one of the following classes (a) to (h), although two or more such additives in the same or different classes may be used, as may two or more agricultural chemicals :
(a) a carbohydrate source, (e.g. glucose, hydrolysed starch, sucrose, fructose, glycerol, glyceraldehyde, erythrose, ribulose, xylulose and arabinose and their esters and glycosides and metabolic equivalents of carbohydrates), which will normally be applied at 10 to 10,000 g/ha (grams per hectare), to function as
(1) A source for the production of high energy bonds as in adenosine triose phosphate (ATP) production,
(2) For the formation of reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH) and reduced nicotamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADPH) and (3) As precursors of amino acids and nucleotides;
(b) an organic acid, particularly one o the Krebs Tricarboxylic Acid Cycle and. their metabolic precursors, (including citric, succinic, malic, pyruvic, acetic and fumaric acids), which will normally be applied at similar rates to and used for similar functions as the carbohydrate source;
(c) a vitamin or coenzyme, e.g. thiamine, riboflavin, pyridoxine, pyridoxamine, pyridoxal, nicotinamide, folic acid, or a precursor, thereof including nicotinic acid, which will normally be applied at 0.01 to 500 g/ha to stimulate metabolic processes dependent on enzymatic action;
(d) a purine or pyrimidine nucleoside, nucleotide or a metabolic precursor thereof, e.g. adenine, adenosine, thymine, thymidine, cytosine, guanine, guanosine, hypoxanthine, uracil, uridine or inosine, which will normally be applied at 1 to 500 g/ha to act as structural precursors for nucleic acid synthesis;
(e) a fatty acid of a type found in natural saturated and unsaturated fats, e.g. butyric, lauric, palmitic, stearic, oleic and iinoleic acid, which will normally be applied at 10 to 10,000 g/ha to act as precursors of molecules required in growth process and through their degradation to provide a source of ATP and NADPH as with a carbohydrate source;
(f) a naturally occurring fat or oil including olive, soya, coconut and corn oils, which can be degraded by living organisms to fatty acids and which will normally be applied at 10 to 10,000 g/ha;
(g) an amino acid of a type that occurs naturally in plant proteins, e.g. glycine, alanine, valine, leucine, isoleucine, serine, threonine, cysteine, methionine, aspartic acid, glutamic acid, glutamine, asparagine, lysine, hydroxylysine, arginine, histidine, phenylalanine, tyrosine, tryptophan, proline or hydroxy- proline, which will normally be applied at 1 to 500 g/ha to act as structural units for newly formed proteins or by their degradation to function in a similar manner to fatty acids and carbohydrates; (h) a naturally occurring plant-growth regulator
(provided that the agricultural chemical itself is not a plant growth regulator) of the type that affects the basic metabolic processes of a plant so as to render an applied pesticide more effective, e.g. indole-3-acetic acid and gibberellic acid, which are normally used in amount such that the final concentration in a spray applied to the crop is 0.5 to 1000 parts per million by weight.
The additives in groups (a) to (g) above are especially effective in enhancing the plant-growth-regulating effect of quaternary ammonium compounds of the formula R-N(CH3)3-Y in which Y is a non-phytotoxic anion and R is a lower aliphatic radical
(e.g. a C1-8 or C1-6 aliphatic radical) containing a non-ionizing nucleophilic group or atom, e.g. haloalkyl, alkylene, haloalkylene, cyanoalkyl, mercaptoalkyl, alkoxyalkyl, alkylthioalkyl or epithio- alkyl. Such compounds are defined in more detail in U.S. Patent No. 3 156 554 and a specific example of such a compound is chloro-choline chloride, which has the systematic chemical name β-chloro-ethyl trimethylammonium chloride. It is also known as chlormequat or CCC. The known action of such compounds when applied as a foli spray includes the ability to shorten and strengthen the stems of wheat, oats and rye, though not of barley or rice. Such a shorten and strengthening is sometimes, though not consistently, accompanie by the formation of a better developed root system and the survival of a higher proportion of the tillers or side shoots. While such effects on roots and tillers where they occur may be beneficial in themselves, the principle use of a chlormequat or similar treatment has been to prevent the 'lodging' or collapsing of the cereal plant as the result of strong winds. Such lodging being known to result in loss of yield and difficulty in harvesting.
The use of compositions in accordance with the present invention can enhance the effectiveness of chlormequat, especially under poor growing conditions, for example, where the temperature for some days after application of the growth regulator does not exceed 10ºC. This condition is commonly encountered during the time at which a cereal plant is reaching the end of the growth stage in which tillers are produced (Growth Stage 4-5). It is frequently desirable to apply the growth regulator at this stage, because certain fungicides and herbicides are also desirably applied before Growth Stage 6, and because crop damage is more likely to occur when the plant has been treated during Growth Stage 6 (at which stage the first 'node' or joint has formed on the tiller) and then encounters a check to growth, as for instance the result of drought.
The normal range of application times is from Growth Stage 4 - Growth Stage 6, all of which occur early in the year when the temperatures may be low.
In addition to improving on the known action of chlormequat on stem, roots and tiller survival in wheat, oats and rye, compositions of the present invention may also be used to obtain an action on other cereal plants where chlormequat on its own has failed to give a useful result, as for instance with barley and rice, and to reduce the application rate of chlormequat.
Such additives may also be beneficially used with other cereal-growth regulators to obtain effects similar to those obtained by their use in conjunction with chlormequat. Such cereal-growth regulators include, but are not limited to, the following growth regulators used singly or in combination, including combinations with the quaternary ammonium growth regulators described above :- 1. Haloalkyl phosphoric acids (particularly β-haloalkyl-phosphoric acids and especially acids in which the halogen is chlorine) and compounds of the general formula
where each of R, R1 and R2, which are identical or different, is a hydrogen atom or a C1-3 alkyl radical. Examples of non- phytotoxic anions are chloride, bromide, methosulphate, sulphate and phosphate. A particularly useful example is 2-chloroethyl phosphoric acid. (CEPA). Such compounds are defined in detail in U.K. Patent No. 1,483,915-
2. Chlorphonium chloride, i.e. tributyl -2,4 - dichloro- benzyl - phosphonium chloride.
3. Mepiquat chloride.
4. A diphenyl - 1H - pyrazolium salt of the formula
where R1 is methyl; R2 is alkyl C1-C4; X is an anion with a charge of 1 to 3; Y, Y', Z and Z' are hydrogen, halogen, methyl or methoxy; and m is an integer from 1 tc 3; provided that only one phenyl ring can be substituted on the carbon para to the pyrazolium ring with a substituent other than hydrogen. These compounds are defined in detail in U.K. Patent No. 1 466 634. Such compounds also act as specific herbicides selectively controlling wild oats in wheat and barley crops. The said additives may also be used to enhance this, herbicidal action. HERBICIDES (Substances for killing and/or controlling unwanted plan A number of herbicides check the growth of weeds so rapidly that the target plant has its metabolism so reduced that the herbicide does not completely kill it. Thus, after an interval during which the herbicide is degraded or suffers a change of form or is removed from those sites where its lethal action is exerted, the weed may then re-commence growth. A particular problem in agriculture is the control of wild oats, where a number of commonly used herbicides show such an effect, especially where the wild cat has become a well established plant. By stimulating growth and uptake of applied chemicals it is possible to enhance the activity of a number of herbicides, especially against older more established weeds.
Herbicides that may benefit from applications in conjunction with those substances comprising the subject of this patent include, but are not limited to, those herbicides listed below. The names used are those trivial names used in the "Pesticide Index":
1. Barban 18. Asulam
2. Benzoyl-propethyl 19. Nitrofen 3. Chlorfenprop-methyl 20. Desmetryme
4. Chlortoluron 21. Propachlor
5. Difenzoquat 22. Propyzamide
6. Diclofop-methyl 23. Diallate 7. Flamprop-ispropyl 24. Triallate 8. Flamprop methyl 9. Isoproturon
10. Atrazine
11. Simazine
12. Linuron 13. Trifluralin
14. Hormone type weedkillers including MCPA, 2,4-D, MCPB, 2,4-DB, Mecoprop, Dichlorprop, Ioxynil, Bromoxynil, Benazolin, Bentazone, Cyanazine, Dicamba, Dinoseb-amine, Dinoseb-acetate 15. Dalapon
16. Phenmedipham
17. Glyphosate
A further aspect of this invention is the use of the substances forming this invention to enable a herbicide to be sprayed later than would otherwise have been possible. This is important since :-
(a) A period of weather unfavourable to spraying may allow weeds to grow beyond the stage or size at which they may be satisfactorily controlled. (b) By making it possible to treat older weeds a longer period is allowed for other weeds to germinate and become susceptible to the action of a foliar (leaf-applied) herbicide. (c) By enabling spraying to take place later, it may enable the crop to become better established and less at risk to damage from the applied agricultural chemical. A particular example of the use of such substances to enable spraying to be delayed is their use in conjunction with chlortoluron,
C N - ( 3 - chloro - 4 - methylphenyl) - N,N - dimethyl urea, such that it will control wild oats (Avena spp) that have passed the two-leaf stage (ZCK 12) and blackgrass (Alopecurus spp) that has passed the five-leaf stage (ZCK 15). Known formulations will give only a poor control of wild oats up to the twoleaf stage and negligible control thereafter. Blackgrass will be controlled satisfactorily only up to the five-leaf stage. Since blackgrass and wild oats germinate over an extended period it is possible to have late-germinating weeds emerging while earlygerminating weeds have passed the stage at which they may be controlled. For this reason chlortoluron is used primarily as a soil-applied chemical acting through the weed roots. By extending the period at which emerged weeds may be controlled a useful alternative method of application independent of soil conditions is provided. In the autumn conditions may be unsuitable for soil application either because of excessive water or excessive dryness.
A specific aspect of this invention involves the enhancement of the herbicidal activity of bipyridylium herbicides. The metabolism of a target weed organism may be modified in a specific manner by modifying a distinctive biochemical pathway or reaction in order to enhance the activity of an agricultural chemical.
The lethal action of the bipyridyl herbicides paraquat (1, 11-dimethyl-4, 41 dipyridylium salt) and diquat (1, 11-ethylene- 2,2 dipyridylium) is the result of the formation of hydrogen peroxide when the paraquat or diquat ion, having been reduced to the free radical by the photosynthetic electron flow, is re-oxidized by molecular oxygen, thus re-forming the paraquat or diquat ion andH202. As this can happen very rapidly (especially in bright sunshine) it is possible for the herbicide to destroy superficial leaf cells where droplets of herbicide solution have fallen and thus prevent its own continued uptake into the bulk of the plant cells. The speed of the lethal action may be slowed down by providing an alternative oxidation/reduction system. Thus the use of oxidized glutathione (GSSG) in conjunction with a bipyridyl herbicide can be used to re-oxidize the reduced free radical while forming reduced glutathione (GSH). If this sytem is coupled with another system or systems to re-oxidize the reduced glutathione then the glutathione will act in more than a simple stoichiometric relationship with the herbicide.
One such system is the enzymic re-oxidation of reduced glutathione in conjunction with nicotine adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADP), which may be stimulated by the use of an NADP precursor such as nicotinamide or nicotinic acid, and a further system is that of ascorbic acid/dehydroascorbic acid catalysed by the enzyme ascorbic acid oxidase, which may be stimulated by the use of ascorbic acid. Ascorbic acid is initially added and converted in the plant to dehydroascorbie acid-(5) below. The reactions that take place with paraquat and GSSG are thus :
Thus some of the free radical from the paraquat is temporarily mopped up, and the formation of HO effectively slowed down while re-forming the paraquat ion. FUNGICIDES AND INSECTICIDES (i.e. substances for killing and/or controlling fungi and insects).
The beneficial activity of these materials can be enhanced in accordance with the invention. Thus by stimulating the metabolism the fungus is less able to resist the toxic effects of the chemical by having its growth temporarily restricted while a systemic fungicide or insecticide which must penetrate through the plant for maximum effect may more readily do so.
The insecticides and fungicides where effects be beneficially modified in accordance with the invention include, but are not limited to, the following :-
Fungicides
Captan Mancozeb
Captafol Vinclozin
Dimethirimol Zineb
Benodanil Thiram
Maneb Chloropyriphos
Tridemorph Triazophos
Triadimephon Binapacryl
Thiabendazole Bupirimate
Triforine Ditalimfos
Carbendazim Sulphur
Dodine
Thiophanate methyl
Pyrazophos
Ethirimol
Insecticides
Demeton-S-methyl Pirimiphos-methyl Lindane
Pyrimicarb DDT Fonofos
Vamidothion Azinphozmethy1 DNOC
Demephion Trichlorphon
Menazon Triazophos
Dimethoate Malathion
Dimefox Phosalone
Fenitrothion Carbaryl
Phosphamidon In a further aspect of this invention, the activity of an agricultural chemical not containing an additive as hereinbefore described as a metabolic stimulant will have its own activity stimulated or otherwise beneficially modified as the result of being applied in conjunction with an agricxiltural chemical formulated with such a substance.
The toxicity of compositions in accordance with the present invention may be reduced by including in the mixture a compound that acts as a purgative or emetic or that acts to delay uptake of the material in the alimentary canal. Suitable purgatives include phenolphthalein, senna extract and castor oil. Apomorphine is a useful emetic, whose effect is enhanced by the presence of ethyl alcohol. The amount of emetic that is added (e.g. to paraquat) is such that if sufficient agricultural chemical is ingested to cause a toxic response, sufficient emetic is ingested to cause emesis.
References in the specification to growth stages in weeds are those defined in the "Weed ControlHandbook", ed J D Fryer and R L Makepeace, Blackwell Scientific Publications, e.g. in the 6th Edition.
The following are illustrative Examples of compositions in accordance with the invention. 225 litres of spray solution is normally used per hectare.
The following experimental data show effects produced by certain compositions and methods in accordance with the present invention and compare such effects with those of the prior art. In this connection, it should be noted that the further addition of a wetting agent to a standard commercially obtainable formu lation of a pesticide is known in some cases to improve its efficacy. Therefore in comparative trials a wetting agent corres ponding to that in the combination of additives was also used with the application of the standard formulation.
In comparing the quantities of materials used, it is to be understood that where amounts of agricultural chemical, additive or wetting agent are given per hectare, this means amounts per 225 litres of solution, always expressed in terms of the active ingredient. In Experiments 1 to 4, the "Standard" is a Standard commercially obtainable formulation with additional wetting agent of the type and in the amount shown in Example I, and the "Standard + Additive" is the same Standard formulation with additives as shown in Example I.
EXPERIMENT 1 Low Temperature - Wheat
This is a comparison of a standard commercially available formulation of Chlormequat, viz. Mandops Chlormequat 46, with the same formulation to which additives as in Example I have been added, with respect to their abilities to shorten the stems of wheat when the temperature does not rise above 7 C for 5 days before and for 5 days after application. Results are expressed as an average of 250 measurements.
The application rate is equivalent to 7-16 g. of
Chlormequat per litre sprayed to run-off on pot-grown plants of Maris Huntsman at Growth Stage 5. The plants were maintained for 5 days before and after spraying at below 7ºC, and were then moved to field conditions. EXPERIMENTS 2(a) AND 2(b)
Barlev
This is the effect on stem height in (a) spring barley and (b) winter barley of 1.6 kg per hectare of chlormequat + additive as in Example I. Application is made at Growth Stage 6 (1st "Node" Stage) in 225 litres per hectare of water. Results are expressed as average of 250 measurements.
EXPERIMENT 3
Rice A standard commercially available formulation of chlormequat is compared with the same formulation to which additives (as in Example I) have been added.
Rate of application is equivalent to 7.1 g. of Chlormequat per litre sprayed to run-off onto plants 20 cm in height.
EXPERIMENTS 4(a) AND 4(b) Wheat
A standard commercially available formulation of chlormequat is compared with the same formulation to which additives (as in Example I) have been added, with respect to their abilities to shorten the stems of wheat (var. Maris Huntsman).
Rate of application is equivalent to 1.2 kg of chlormequat per hectare (Standard (a)) and to 1.6 kg per hectare (Standard (b)) applied in 225 litres per hectare at Growth Stage 6 (1st "Node" Stage).
EXPERIMENTS 5(a) AND 5(b)
Effect of Chlortoluron on Wild Oats
This is a comparison of a commercially available formulation of chlortoluron, viz. that sold under the trade mark "Dicurane", with the same formulation to which additives as in Examples VII and XI have been added with respect to their abilities to control wild oats.
The application rate is equivalent to 3.6 kg Chlortoluron per hectare in 225 litres of water. (a) Wild Oats sprayed at 5-leaf unfolded
Stage (ZCK 15)
% kill of wild oats
Standard formulation with additional wetting agent of the type and in the amount shown in Example VII 15
Standard formulation with additives as shown in Example VII 62
Standard formulation with additives as shown in Example XI 80 (b) Wild Oats sprayed at 7-leaf unfolded stage
% kill of wild oats
Standard formulation with additional wetting agent of the type and in the amount shown in Example VII 5
Standard formulation with additives as shown in
Example VII 48 Standard formulation with additives as shown in Example XI 71
EXPERIMENTS 6(a) AND 6(b) Effect of Paraquat A standard commercially available formulation of paraquat, viz. Gramoxone, is compared with the same formulation to which additives as in Example VI have been added with respect to (a) to their abilities to destroy an old grass sward and (b) to kill a population of mixed and broad leaf and grass seedling weeds at from 2 - 5 leaf stage. In this experiment the "Standard" is a Gramoxone with additional wetting agent of the same type and in the same quantity as in Example VI and the "Standard + Additives" is Gramoxone + Additives as shown in Example VI. (a) The application rate is equivalent to 1.1 kg of paraquat per hectare in 400 litres of water. The kill of sward is assessed 4, 8 and 12 days after application.
(b) Application rate is equivalent to 0.25 kg of paraquat per hectare in 200 litres of water. Control assessed at 2, 6 and 10 days after application.
EXPERIMENT 7
Glyphosate
A standard commercially available formulation, viz. that sold under the trade mark "Roundup", is compared with the same formulation to which additives as in Example XII have been added. A mixed week population (grasses and broad leaf weeds) was sprayed and assessed after 2 weeks (0 = nil effect, 10 = complete kill).
EXPERIMENT 8
Fungicides Standard commercially available formulations of
(a) captan (b) thiophanate-methyl and (c) dodine were compared with the same formulations to which additives as in Example X have been added, with respect to their abilities to control black spot of roses. (a) The rate of application is equivalent to 100 grams of captan per 100 litres of water sprayed to run-off.
(b)
Rate of application is equivalent to 46 g. of thiophanate per 100 litres of water sprayed to run-off.
(c)
The rate of application is equivalent to 60 g. of Dodine per 100 litres of water sprayed to run-off.
In this Experiment, the "Standard" is the indicated standard commercially obtainable formulation with additional wetting agent of the type and in the quantity used in Example X and the "Standard + Additives" is a standard commercially obtainable formulation with additives as shown in Example X The word "Benlate" is a trade mark.
EXPERIMENT 9 Effect of carbendazim on evespot of wheat
A standard commercially available formulation of carbendazim, viz. that sold under the trade mark Bavistin, is compared with the same formulation to which additives as in Example X have been added with respect to their abilities to control eyespot disease of wheat (var Maris Huntsman).
(a)
(b)
Application rate is equivalent to 250 grams of carbendazim per hectare in Standard (a) and 500 grams of carbendazim per hectare in Standard (b). Application was made at Growth Stage 5.
EXPERIMENT 10
Insecticides
Comparison of a standard commercially available formulation
(a) demeton-S-methyl, viz. Mandops Demeton-S-Methyl 50, and
(b) Dimethoate, viz. Mandops Dimethoate 40 with the same formulation to which additives as in Example IX have been added, with respect to their aphicidal action on potatoes.
The ratesof application were, for demeton-S-methyl, 22 gms/100 litres of water and for dimethoate, 33.6 gms/100 litres of water. EXPERIMENT 11
Toxicity Studies on chlormequat
The additives used in accordance with the present invention can have an effect on the toxicity of chlormequat even without the addition of purgatives or emetics. For example, in young adult rats the LD50 of aqueous chlormequat corresponding to the formulation used in Experiments 1 to 4 is 600 mg/kg, but it becomes 820 mg/kg by the addition of 47 ml of glycerol and 109 ml of alkylphenol ethylene oxide condensate per 1 kg of chlormequat.

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1. A method of applying an agricultural chemical that is a fungicide, herbicide, insecticide, nematicide or plant-growth regulator, characterized in that an additive that modifies the metabolism of fungi, plants, insects or nematodes is also applied to the same locus as the agricultural chemical not more than 15 days earlier than or more than 15 days later than the agricultural chemical, whereby the desired effect of the agricultural chemical is enhanced.
2. A method as claimed in Claim 1 in which the additive is a carbohydrate, a fatty acid, an acid of the Krebs Tricarboxylic Acid Cycle or a metabolic precursor thereof, a vitamin or coenzyme, a purine or pyrimidine nucleoside or nucleotide or a precursor thereof, a naturally occurring fat or oil, an amino acid or (except when the agricultural chemical is a plant-growth regulator) a naturally occurring plant-growth regulator.
3. A method as claimed in Claim 2 in which the agricultural chemical is chlorocholine chloride and it is applied to wheat, oats or rye to produce its known effect of shortening and strengthening the stems and the additive is such as to enhance that effect and possibly improve the root system and side shoots.
4. A method as claimed in Claim 2 in which the agricultural chemical is chlorocholine chloride and it is applied to rice or barley, the additive acting to cause the chlorocholine chloride to shorten and strengthen the stems and possibly improve the root system and side shoots.
5. A method as claimed in Claim 2 in which the agricultural chemical is a herbicide and is being applied to established weeds.
6. A method as claimed in Claim 5 in which the herbicide is of the bipyridylium type and the additive is such as to affect the oxidation of the bipyridylium free radical.
7. A method as claimed in any one of Claims 1 to 6 in which the agricultural chemical and the additive are applied by spraying onto plants or insects.
8. A method as claimed in any one of Claims 1 to 7 in which an agricultural chemical not containing an additive as defined in Claim 1 is applied not more than 15 days before and not more than 15 days after a mixture of an agricultural chemical and an additive as defined in Claim 1.
9. An agricultural composition suitable for application, either as such or diluted, to plants, characterized in that it contains an agricultural chemical as defined in Claim 1 together with an additive as defined in Claim 1.
10. A composition as claimed in Claim 9 in which the additive is as defined in Claim 2.
11. A composition as claimed in Claim 10 in which the agricultural chemical is chlorocholine chloride.
12. A composition as claimed in Claim 10 in which the agricultural chemical is a herbicide of the bipyridylium type and the additive is such as to affect the oxidation of the bipyridylium free radical
13. A composition as claimed in any one of Claims 9 to 12, that also includes a purgative or emetic to decrease its toxicity hazard to mammals.
14. A composition as claimed in any one of Claims 9 to 13 in the form of a sprayable liquid.
15. A composition as claimed in any one of Claims 9 to 14 also mixed with a second agricultural chemical whereby toxic risk to mammals is reduced.
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