Contents 2004 till 2010 issues

May 2010

• Polysaccharide based adjuvant controls drift
• China is a goldmine of generic formulation research
• Patentsin brief:
  • Doubled pesticide effectiveness claimed; itaconic/maleic copolymer adjuvants
• Literature with hyperlinks to original sources
• SURfaPLUS Patent Alert Service online
• Agenda of meetingsonline
• Advertising companies online
• Item of the month: Interactions between saflufenacil and glyphosate; absorption/translocation

April 2010

• Improved crop safety ofnewalachlor formulation
• Responses on Adjuvant Newsletter questionnaire
• Patentsin brief:
  • New preparation process for nanoemulsions
  • Polymer nanoparticles
  • Drift reduction
  • Stabilizer for pyrethrins and pyrethroids
• CPDA and EPA discussed inert ingredients
  • Linksto regulatory presentations
  • Links to technical presentations
• Literature with hyperlinks to original sources
• SURfaPLUS Patent Alert Service online
• Agenda of meetingsonline
• Advertising companies online
• Item of the month: MSO effects volatility of auxin herbicide

March 2010

• ISAA2010, the place to be in August
  • Presenters
  • Regular and breakout sessions
  • Excursions
  • Sponsors
  • Trade Exhibition
  • Venue
  • EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION TILL 22 APRIL!
• Patents in brief
  • Replacement of ammonium sulphate (Cognis)
  • Safer Adjuvants for glyphosate (Monsanto)
  • Solvent for glyphosate (Rhodia Chimie)
  • Stabiliser for cyazofamid (Ishihara Dangyo Kaisha)
  • Solid solution (BASF)
• News in brief: Delivery systems
  • Monodisperse alginate microcapsules
  • Cyclodextrins for delivery of active ingredients
  • Polymer-surfactant interactions and microcapsule formation
  • Nanostructured lipid carriers
• Literature with hyperlinks to original sources
• SURfaPLUS Patent Alert Service online
• Agenda of meetingsonline
• Advertising companies online
• Item of the month: formulation breakthrough

Februari 2010

• Green solvents for Agrochemicals-product development by Cognis AgroSolutions
  • Criteria for solvents
  • New generation solvents
• Symposia adjuvant/formulation abstracts with hyperlinks
  • SRM and WSSA meeting
  • NCWSS meeting
  • ESA meeting
• SURfaPLUS Patent Alert Service online
• Agenda of meetingsonline
• Advertising companies online
• Item of the month: formulating for the organic market

Januari 2010

• Adjuvants to improve efficiency of agrochemical applications-Robyn Gaskin at Agridyne De Sangosse symposium
• Editorial
• News in brief
  • Improved control of Botrytis cinerea on grapevine leaves
  • Computational fluid dynamics for efficient pesticide delivery
  • Improved performance of saflufenacil
  • UV-protection of Bacilllus thuringiensis
• Patentsin brief
  • Controlled release formulation mesotrione
  • Novel sugar-based thickeners
  • Surfactants as solubilizers
  • Surfactant blend for 2,4-D
• Literature with hyperlinks to the original sources
• SURfaPLUS Patent Alert Service online
• Agenda of meetingsonline
• Advertising companies online

December 2009

• High throughput formulation and screening robot (PLATO)
• Editorial
• Patents in brief
  • Eye-friendly glyphosate
  • Rapid knockdown
• News in brief
  • Aerial application online
  • Seed treatment online
• Literature with hyperlinks to the original sources
• SURfaPLUS Patent Alert Service online
• Agenda of meetingsonline
• Advertising companies online

November 2009

• New electrolyte-tolerant polymeric dispersant available
  • Functionality
  • Registration
  • Example glyphosate-atrazine shear viscosity and particle size
• News in brief
  • Control of glyphosate tolerant species
  • Pelargonic adic addition can reduce glyphosate performance
  • Formulation improves performance natural insecticide
  • Canola insecticide seed treatment
• Patents: Clean carriers and solvents
  • Revival environmentally-friendly Fischer-Tropsch oils
• Literature with hyperlinks to the original sources
• SURfaPLUS Patent Alert Service online
• Agenda of meetingsonline
• Advertising companies online

October 2009

• Focus on innovations at ASTM 2009
  • Biopesticides developments and formulations
  • Oil dispersions
  • Improving SC and WDG formulations
  • Drift control additives, effect onspray parameters
  • Glyphosate and pH
• Patents in brief
  • Surfactants as pesticides
  • Novel surfactant compositions
  • Adjuvants for growth substrates
• News in brief
  • Mesotrione photolysis
  • Spreading of glucosamide-based trisiloxane
  • Selection of co-solvents
  • Adjuvants and bentazone
• Other media: Formulation and adjuvant items
• Literature with hyperlinks to the original sources
• SURfaPLUS Patent Alert Service online
• Agenda of meetingsonline
• Advertising companies online

September 2009

• Development of safer pesticide formulations in China by Alan Knowles
• Patentsin brief
  • Novel adjuvants for high load glyphosate formulations
  • Eye- and skin-friendly adjuvants
• News in brief
  • Improved imazapyr slow release formulations
  • Adjuvants with saflufenacil; benefits and risks
• Bioencapsulation Conference abstract list
• Literature with hyperlinks to the original sources
• SURfaPLUS Patent Alert Service online
• Agenda of meetingsonline
• Advertising companies online

August 2009

• Formulation and application technology plus regalatory items at ASTM 2009
• High-performance alternatives to tallow-amine ethoxylate based adjuvants
• ISAA 2010 online: 9th International Symposium on Adjuvants for Agrochemicals, Germany
• News in brief
  • Surfactants effect leaching of bentazone in sand
  • Formulation of bioherbicidal fungus
  • Biosurfactant and wetting
• Other media: formulation and adjuvant items
• Literature with hyperlinks to the original sources
• SURfaPLUS Patent Alert Service online
• Agenda of meetingsonline
• Advertising companies online

July 2009

• Trends in patents for tebuconazole formulations
• Patents on the production process of tebucanozole
• A list of the most recent patents including links to the original patent database
• A figure outlining the number of different patents per year in the period 1998-2009.
• SURfaPLUS Patent Alert Service online
• Agenda of meetingsonline
• Advertising companies online

June 2009

• Formulation and Adjuvant Projects in USDA-ARS programs
• Rhamnolipids bio-surfactants superior wetting and for microemulsions
• Patents in brief
  • High load SC seed treatment
  • Novel nanoemulsions
• Newsin brief
  • Wax particles stabilize water-in-oil emulsions
  • Film-coated seed protectant
• Abstracts 61st International Symposium on Crop Protection, Gent, Belgium
• Abstract 237th ACS National Meeting & Exposition, Salt Lake City, USA
• SURfaPLUS Patent Alert Service online
• Agenda of meetings online
• Advertising companies online
• Literature with links to the sources

May 2009

• Preview ACE 2009(AgrochemEx)inChina
• Pesticide residues on vegetables in China
• BCPC back in town (Glasgow)!
• Patentsin brief
  • Stable oil-in-water emulsion
  • Herbicide dose to match morning dew
  • Emulsion stabiliser
• Newsin brief
  • Metrubuzin controlled release formulations
  • Droplet impact and spreading
  • Environmentally friendly vegetable oil microemulsions
• Other media:formulation and adjuvant items
• SURfaPLUS Patent Alert Service online
• Agenda of meetingsonline
• Advertising companies online
• Literature with links to the sources

April 2009

• Updated EPA lists of inert ingredients
• Patents in brief
  • Ammonium-sulphate rich glyphosate composition
  • Nose and kin friendly solvents
• Hasten NNP: more than uptake enhancement
• News in brief
  • Review uptake hydrophilic solutes
  • Controlled release 2,4-D
• Literature
• Patent Alert Service
• Agenda
• Companies online

March 2009

• Adjuvant certification by CPDA
  • Program
  • List with certified adjuvants
• News in brief
  • Adjuvant effect on foliar uptake of dimethopmorph by cucumber leaves
  • Photodegradation of herbicides and effect of formulation/adjuvants
• Patents in brief
  • Low-dose surfactant for 2,4-D
  • Tablet formulation
  • Water-dispersible particles
• Literature
• SURfaPLUS Patent Alert Service online
• Agenda of meetingsonline
• Advertising companies online

Februari 2009

• Solventless formulation of triclopyr butoxyethyl ester herbicide
  • new triclopyr formulation: 5000th patent inSURfaPLUS Patent Database
  • surfactants kill household pests
  • novel crystal forms of tembotrione
  • use of organomodified sil(ox)anes in sulfonylurea oil suspensions
• Selectivity through any barrier; news story BayerCropScience
  • examples tebucanozole, tembotrione plus isoxadifen-ethyl, spirotetramat
• Newsin brief
  • Improved seed coating soybeans
  • Improved permeation of imazalil
  • Plasticizers in drug delivery
• Symposia abstracts
• Literature
• SURfaPLUS Patent Alert Service online
• Agenda of meetings online
• Advertising companies online

Januari 2009

• New SURfaPLUS website - new services
• Company profile: Clariant covers whole range of formulation inerts
• Patents in brief
  • Crystallization inhibitors
  • ABA and fertilizer performance
  • Enzymes
• Patent Alert Service - Information and access
• Adjuvant reports
• 2009 version Adjuvant regulation and use in nine EU countries
• Changes in subcribers administration
• Agenda online
• Patents online
• Companies online

December 2008

• Patents reflect search for new carriers and delivery systems
  • Solvent choice
  • Special carriers
  • Ultrafine carriers
  • Nanosized actives
  • Cubosomes as delivery systems
  • Delivery systems
• Literature
• Patents online
• Agenda online
• Advertising companies online

November 2008

• Adjuvant information online
• New book on sugar-based surfactants
• Formulation and adjuvant quotes
• Abstracts 2008 annual meeting Entomological Society of America
• Literature
• Patents online
• Agenda online
• Advertising companies online

October 2008

• ASTM 2008 presents state-of-the-art
  • Response HPPD-inhibitor herbicides on adjuvant classes
  • Novel oil-in-water emulsions
  • Application of double-comb polymers in SC and SE formulations
• Editorial: advertisements
• Innovations at the 2008 German Plant Protection Meeting
  • Micro-encapsulation technology for pendimethalin
  • ME formulations enable incorporation of trisiloxane and polysiloxane surfactants
  • Adjuvant applications of 1:1 mix alkoxylated fatty amine and polyoxyethylene laurate ester
  • Ethyl-esterified rapeseed oil improves performance of nicosulfuron and rimsulfuron
• Symposia titles plus hyperlinks to abstracts
  • 236th ACS 2008 meeting
  • 2008 Meeting GSA-SSSA-ASA-CSSA-GCAGS-HGS
  • Int. Congress Entomology 2008 (ICE)
  • EWRS and Hebrew University Jurasalem Weed Management 2007
• SURfaPLUS Patent Alert Service online
• Agenda of meetings online
• Advertising companies online

September 2008

• Glyphosate patents: new formulations and new high purity products
  • High purity products
  • Adjuvants
  • Claims functions organic extender in new glyphosate product
  • Other glyphosate-related patents
  • Follow-up patent applications
• Literature with hyperlinks to original Journals
• SURfaPLUS Patent Alert Service online
• Agenda of meetings online
• Advertising companies online

August 2008

• Glyphosate application in Columbia - an ongoing debate
• Plan Columbia
• Glyphosate formulations
• Evidence risks
• Monsanto questions validity non-standard studies
• Perspectives
• News in brief
  • Plasticising effect surfactant demonstrated by AFM method
  • Peter Baur (BayerCropscience) 'The Optimizer'
  • Petro-Canada filed patents on formulation of auxin-type herbicides
• Inerts legislation at recent CPDA meeting; hyperlinks to presentations
• Literature with hyperlinks to original Journals
• SURfaPLUS Patent Alert Service online
• Agenda of meetings online
• Advertising companies online

July 2008

• DLG Fair in Germany attracted 20,000 visitors
  • OD formulations
  • Adjuvant for sulfosulfuron
  • Glyhosate for pre-harvest crop treatment
  • Adjuvants at DLG
• Preview: formulation and application technologie at ASTM 2008
  • Adjuvants for tembotrione
  • Adjuvants for herbicides and insecticides
  • Formulation and application improvements
• Literature with hyperlinks to original Journals
• Summary APS Meeting 2008
• SURfaPLUS Patent Alert Service online
• Agenda of meetings online
  

June 2008

• Molecular Imprinted Polymers (MIP) and agchem formulations
  • Innovations
  • Patents
  • Seed and soil application
• SURfaPLUS Patent Alert Service online
• Agenda of meetings online
• Advertising companies online

May 2008

• CRODA goes for Crop Care
  • Company information
  • Polymeric adjuvants
• Formulating for efficacy (FFE) is a need
  • Polarity approach
• Surfactant structure and spray retention
• Degussa and Goldschmidt are now Evonik
• Nanoparticles for controlled release of bifentrin
• Adjuvants improve bispyribac-sodium efficacy
• SURfaPLUS Patent Alert Service online
• Agenda of meetings online
• Advertising companies online
• Literature with hyperlinks to original Journals

April 2008

• More efficient application of PGR's in ornamentals with a crop safe adjuvant
  • Polyglycerol adjuvant
  • Hydrangea
  • Poinsettia
• SURfaPLUS Patent Alert Service online
• Agenda of meetings online
• Advertising companies online
• Literature with hyperlinks to original Journal

March 2008

• Patents: effective crystalline forms of pesticides increasingly prized and patented
  Metazachlor subject of patent battle
  • Polymorphism expands rapidly as research field
  • Glyphosate patents
  • Patents on particle size
• Symposia abstracts (hyperlinks) of WSWS 2007 and SWSC 2007
• Debate in California after publication of inert ingredient information by the EPA
• SURfaPLUS Patent Alert Service online
• Agenda of meetings online
• Advertising companies online
• Literature with hyperlinks to original Journals
  

Februari 2008

• New common names for pesticides reached rock bottem - decline in new molecules
  • Formulation as tool to stand out from competitors
• News in brief
  • Control of Asian Soybean rust at low carrier volumes
  • Review mixtures of cationic and anionic surfactants
  • Charging and swelling of cellulose films
• Symposia abstracts (hyperlinks) of WSSA 2008 and NCWSS 2007
• Literature highlight: special (free) issue of The Environmentalist on pesticide formulation and application technology
• SURfaPLUS Patent Alert Service online
• Agenda of meetings online
• Advertising companies online
• Literature with hyperlinks to original Journals

Januari 2008

• Reach: are you ready? Important items in a nutshell plus hyperlinks by Julia A. Hatcher and Matthew Brewer (Latham & Watkins)
  • Reach basics
  • Registration deadlines
  • Data sharing
  • Co-formulants and adjuvants
  • Implications for importers of adjuvants
  • Exemptions pesticide active ingredients
• One-day workshop Adjuvants and Pesticide Application in Australia
• SURfaPLUS Patent Alert Service online
• Agenda of meetings online
• Advertising companies online
• Literature with hyperlinks to original Journals

December 2007

• Many glyphosate formulation innovations in patents-an extensive scan of trends in patents
  • High load formulations
  • Number of glyphosate formulation patents per year decreases
  • Follow-up applications of patents
  • Glyphosate compatibility with other herbicides
  • Patents tested with glyphosate but also applicable on other actives
  • Other trends
  • Future information on Patents by SURfaPLUS
• Adjuvant, formulations and baits for pest control at ESA 2007
• SURfaPLUS Patent Alert Service online
• Agenda of meetings online
• Advertising companies online
• Literature

November 2007

• Oil based ULV formulations for locus control needed in Central Asia (BCPC 2007)
• Formulation single isomer of dinocap (BCPC 2007)
• Importance of application and formulation technology (BCPC 2007)
• Aerial granule application for control of soybean rust (BCPC 2007)
• Formulation and Integrated Pest Management (ASTM 2007)
• Granular vs liquid pesticides (ASTM 2007)
• Glyphosate in acid form (ASTM 2007)
• Assessment ozone formation potential of VOC's (ASTM 2007)
• SURfaPLUS Patent Alert Service online
• Agenda of meetings online
• Advertising companies online
• •Literature with hyperlinks to original Journals: this time overview of recent ASTM publications

October 2007

• Mark Bell (Battelle UK) about Formulations as a tool for new products.
  • Information on Battelle.
• Alan Knowles (FORM-AK) about Additives and adjuvants for agrochemicals
• SURfaPLUS Patent Alert Service online
• Agenda of meetings online
• Advertising companies online
• Literature with hyperlinks to original Journals

September 2007

• Adjuvant improves control of leaf miner flies by insecticides.
  • Insecticide efficacy trial on leaf miner flies
  • Seed oil (Hasten NNP) quite effective with abamectin and cyromazine
  • Grower's experience
  • Risks
  • Perspectives
• Editorial
• SURfaPLUS Patent Alert Service online
• Agenda of meetings online
• Advertising companies online
• Literature with hyperlinks to original Journals

August 2007

• Many adjuvant innovations at ISAA 2007 in Columbus, USA
  • Market developments
  • Trends
  • Mild adjuvants
  • New chemistry
  • Glyphosate-resistant crops
  • New applications
  • Leaf absorption
  • Statistics ISAA 2007
  • ISAA Society
• Cognis driven by 'Formula Nature'; company profile
• Preview ASTM symposium Tampa Florida: formulations and application technology
• SURfaPLUS Patent Alert Service online
• Agenda of meetings online
• Advertising companies online
• Literature with hyperlinks to original Journals

June 2007

• COMBINED JUNE/JULY ISSUE
• New patents cover inventive use of adjuvants and carriers
  • Skin-protection
  • Plant-friendly formulations
  • Glyphosate
  • Enhanced stability
  • Granulated acephate
  • Surfactant innovations
• Profile Helena Chemical Company: 'Views the future with enthusiasm'
• Novel microemulsion technology by George Beestman and Keith Rowley
• Titanium oxide in crop protection formulations
• Injection reduces biosurfactant breakdown
• SURfaPLUS Patent Alert Service online
• Agenda of meetings online
• Advertising companies online
• Literature with hyperlinks to original Journals

May 2007

• Victorian Chemicals continues its growth; company profile
• Adjuvant as option to reduce labour and use of chlormequat
• Webtip George Beestman consultancy
• SURfaPLUS Patent Alert Service online
• Agenda of meetings online
• Advertising companies online
• Literature with hyperlinks to original Journals

April 2007

• Ghent (Belgium) symposium on crop protection well attended
  • Biocontrol agents risks
  • Adjuvants for control of potato late blight by the dimethomorph-mancozeb combination
  • Adjuvants for control of Fusarium in Triticale by propiconazole
  • Film coating of seeds for improved control of flea beetles
• Petroleum based adjuvant quite effective against drift
• SURfaPLUS Patent Alert Service online
• Agenda of meetings online
• Advertising companies online
• Literature with hyperlinks to original Journals

March 2007

• ISAA 2007 8th International Symposium on Adjuvants for Agrochemicals the place to be in August
• More than 1000 patents in SURfaPLUS patent alert interactive database
• SURfaPLUS Patent Alert Service online
• Agenda of meetings online
• Advertising companies online
• Literature with hyperlinks to original journals

Februari 2007

• Adjuvancy of lactate-ester solvents with herbicides
  • oxyfluorfen
  • quizalofop-P-ethyl
  • bromoxyinil salt and ester
  • bentazone
• Company profile: Croda and formulations for agrochemicals
• Company profile: SST Australia and in-tank adjuvants
• Adjuvants and formulations on annual SWSS meeting
• SURfaPLUS Patent Alert Service online
• Agenda of meetings online
• Advertising companies online
• Literature with hyperlinks to original journals

Januari 2007

• Successful ASTM meeting in Atlanta
  • Business strategy
  • Improved formulation of gibberellic acids
  • Glycerin for glyphosate formulations
  • Improved SC formulations
• Company profile: Tensiofix and agrochemical formulations
• Sugar cane leaf litter decomposition requires formulation of microbes
• Adjuvants and formulations on annual WSSA meeting
• SURfaPLUS Patent Alert Service online
• Agenda of meetings online
• Advertising companies online
• Literature with hyperlinks to original journals

December 2006

• IP management in the digital environment burgeons
  • Digital Object Identifier (DOI) new tool for digital literature sources
• Surfactants affect soil inhabiting pecan weevil larvae
• Agrow's adjuvant report available
• Ghent 2007 plant protection symposium
• Abstract adjuvant session NCWSS meeting
• Formulation of biocontrols at IOBC/WPRS meeting
• Webtip
• SURfaPLUS Patent Alert Service online
• Agenda of meetings online
• Advertising companies online
• Literature with hyperlinks to original journals

November 2006

• Review of new patents
  • Fertiliser formulations: innovation with rhamnolipid surfactant and slow release items
  • Ongoing attention to glyphosate
  • Renewed formulations
• Review of recent formulation and adjuvant technology by Green and Beestman available
• Review of Foliar uptake of pesticides by Wang and Liu available
• SURfaPLUS Patent Alert Service online
• Agenda of meetings online
• Advertising companies online
• Literature with hyperlinks to original journals

October 2006

• Five years SURfaPLUS R&D activities
• Presentations meeting on foliar fertilisation
• Abstract selection annual meetings of the ASA, CSSA and SSSA
• SURfaPLUS Patent Alert Service online
• Agenda of meetings online
• Advertising companies online
• Literature with hyperlinks to original journals

September 2006

• Film-forming polymers protect plants against fungal infections
• Report German Plant Protection Conference in Goettingen
• Adjuvant and formulation news at 58th ISCP-Ghent, Belgium
• Iron fertiliser formulations discussed in Montpelliers
• SURfaPLUS Patent Alert Service online
• Agenda of meetings online
• Advertising companies online
• Literature with hyperlinks to original journals

August 2006

• Emulsifiable granules (EG): an innovative formulation technology for crop protection by Rhodia Novecare
• Preview ASTM meeting in Atlanta Georgia
  • Formulations
  • Adjuvants
• CPDA 2006 presentations online available
• Announcement conference German Working Group on Foliar Fertilisation
• SURfaPLUS Patent Alert Service online
• Agenda of meetings online
• Advertising companies online
• Literature with hyperlinks to original journals

July 2006

• Advances in formulation and application technology at IUPAC by Jerzy Zabkiewicz
• ISAA 2007 expression of interest forms can be submitted online
• Abstract selection 18th World Congress of Soil Science
  • Fertiliser formulations
• Abstract selection APS/CPS/MSA meeting: Biological Interactions and biological crossroads
• SURfaPLUS Patent Alert Service online
• Agenda online
• Company online
• Literature

June 2006

• New patents cover adjuvant and fertiliser inventions
  • New adjuvants
  • Insecticidal activity
  • Carriers
  • Fertilisers
• SURfaPLUS Patent Alert Service online
• Forthcoming AAB meeting at Jealott\'s Hill
• Forthcoming ISAA 2007 meeting
• Agenda online
• Company online lists with a new advertiser included
• Literature

May 2006

• China agrochemical and formulations market developments by Alan Knowles
• Dike burst prevention by surfactants
• Vegetable oil adjuvant technology (O-TEQ) used for insecticides by Bayer CropScience
• Soil wetting agent technology on CD-ROM
• SURfaPLUS Patent Alert Service online
• Agenda online
• Company online lists with a new advertiser included
• Literature

April 2006

• Adjuvants based on polyglycerol condensates-Clariant's view
• Update EPA's reassessment inert ingredients
• Smart use of run-off effect with an organosilicone surfactant
• Water soluble tape for delivery of active ingredients to plants
• SURfaPLUS Patent Alert Service online
• Agenda online
• Company online lists
• Literature

March 2006

• Acylglycerols as UV-protectant for formulations of insecticidal biocontrols
• New glucosamide based trisiloxane surfactants
• 23rd German Conference on Weed Biology and Weed Control (titles and links to abstracts)
• Western Society of Weed Science 59th Annual Meeting (titles and links to abstracts)
• ACS Spring Meeting reports on surfactant research (titles and links to abstracts)
• SURfaPLUS Patent Alert Service online
• Agenda online
• Company online lists
• Literature

Februari 2006

• Preview report on the use and registration of adjuvants in nine EU countries
• Influence of adjuvants on the susceptibility of grapes to infection with Botrytus
• Adjuvants and baits for pest control
• SURfaPLUS Patent Alert Service online
• Agenda online
• Company online lists
• Literature

Januari 2006

• Seed treatment with slow release
  • Tebucanozole
  • Research tools
• ISAA Society and ISAA2007 (International Syposium on Adjuvants) online
• Diatomite production
• Adjuvant and Formulation news on NCWSS meeting
• SURfaPLUS Patent Alert Service online
• Agenda online extended
• Literature
• Company online lists extended

December 2005

• New adjuvants and glyphosate formulations covered by patents
  • Surfactants
  • Repellent adjuvant
  • New glyphosate compositions
  • Adhere and stick
• Editorial patents
• Literature
• Agenda online
• Companies online

November 2005

• New approach: Surfactant affects gene expression in Arabidopsis
• Biodiesel improves herbicide performance
• Update agenda of meetings
• Season's greetings
• ISAA progress
• Amido propylamines improve performance of azoxystrobin against wheat leaf blotch
• Literature
• Companies online

October 2005

• ASTM 2005 sucessful symposium on formulation and application technology
  • Air-induction nozzles and adjuvants (Patrick McMullan)
  • Spray retention models and adjuvants (Alison Forster)
  • Adjuvants and droplet characteristics (Peter Baur)
  • ASTM method for extensional viscosity (Robin Dexter)
  • Risk assessment aromatic fluids (Arlean Medeiros)
• Formulation decreases caraway oil volatilisation
• Literature
• Companies online

September 2005

• Surfactant in Roundup under fire; an ongoing debate
• User-friendly lime milk formulation against Nectria
• Literature
• Companies online

August 2005

• Preview ASTM Symposium in Dallas, Texas
• Rubber budding tape with slow-release repellent protects fruit- and lane trees against the red bud borer
• Literature
• Companies online

July 2005

• Surfactant blends effectively reduce water repellency of soils
• Agrow report offer
• Application of substrate-wetting agents increases
• Adjuvants affect herbicide sol-air partitioning
• Literature
• Companies online

June 2005

• Update and description of 2005 patents covering glyphosate formulations
• Capsule supports fungus to kill nematode
• Literature
• Companies online

May 2005

• Adjuvants improve foliar uptake of the insecticide abamectin into chrysanthemum
• Editorial: more chemistry in the literature updates
• Update Allen Knowles about pesticide formulation technology in China
• Seed coating made from forestry waste
• Adjuvants enhance foliar uptake of magnesium sulphate into apple leaves
• Crop safety test for surfactant use in potting soils
• Literature
• Companies online

April 2005

• Karin Bergström (Akzo Nobel) about improved fertiliser formulations by alkyl glucosides
• Silica based formulation technologies; developments in China and the Netherlands
• Manganese effect on glyphosate activity
• International Adjuvant Society (ISAA) update
• Online lists of companies
• Literature

March 2005

• New adjuvant for bentazone developed by Clariant in collaboration with SURfaPLUS R&D
• Surfactant for improving disease control by electrolysed water
• Innovative alginate-based formulation for paraquat developed by Syngenta
• CPDA's adjuvant recommendation on USA label
• Chitosan enhances biocontrol of disease in cucumber
• A comparison of commercial glyphosate formulations
• BCPC's last call for session Adjuvants and Formulation Science
• Online lists of companies
• Literature

Februari 2005

• David Stock, Syngenta reports on Adjuvant design
• Controlled release formulations made of potato residue
• CPDA Adjuvant Conference call
• Importance of counter-ion in fertilizer formulation
• Literature

Januari 2005

• Wanted: adjuvants for bio-pesticides by Willem Ravensberg, Koppert, NL.
• Adjuvants improve the eveness and efficiency of drying sultana grapes in Australia
• Conference call for adjuvant and formulation papers BCPC 2005 in Glasgow, UK
• Conference call for adjuvant, formulation and application technology papers ASTM 2005 in Dallas, USA

December 2004

• Guest's view: Robin Dexter about 'The relation between formulations and spray drift'
  • DST and viscosity
  • Surfactants and oils
• Editorial: Best wishes for 2005!
  • Link to Future Forests
• New formulation targets pesticide-resistant insects
  • New formulation deactivates resistance mechanism before exposure of insects to insecticides like pyrethroids
• Adjuvants alter fungicide action
  • How adjuvants can change the activity patterns of fungicides
• Ammonium sulphate enhances growth regulator's performance
  • Ammonium sulphate strenghtens apple shoot growth suppression by prohexadione-calcium

November 2004

• George Beestman (USA) about patent trends in pesticide formulations adjuvants
  • Categories of adjuvant patents and applications 2003-2003
  • Adjuvant patents and applications through September 2004
  • Trends
• Report ISAA 2004 in Cape Town (SA)
  • Adjuvant use and marketing in SA
  • Hybrid adjuvants for glyphosate and other herbicides
  • Adjuvants for rest-breaking agents in apples
  • Organosilicone surfactant improves drying sultana grapes
  • Ethyl hydroxyethyl cellulose (EHEC) as drift retardant
  • Links to advanced technology for monitoring adjuvants performance
• Initiative to set up a society for the ISAA symposia
• Meetings
• Literature

October 2004

• ASTM 2004 report covering the following items:
  • Registration and Formulation/Adjuvants (EPA and APE)
  • Interactions application technology and formulations
  • Developments on granules
  • pH and surfactant influence on weak acid herbicide performance
  • Fatty amine alkoxylates surfactants and strobilurin fungicides
• Jan van de Zande (Wageningen, NL) about influence of application technology and formulation on drift
• Organo silicone based adjuvant enhances bark penetration of fungicides
• Report Foliar Fertilization Meeting in Göttingen (Germany)
• Formulation items on the German PLant Protection Conference (continued)
• Literature

September 2004

• Jörg Schönherr gives his view on the rules to select adjuvants for rapid foliar penetration of chemicals
• Preview International Conference on Pesticide Application for Drift Management on October 27-29
• Bead production for bioencapsulation (biopesticide delivery)
• Alan Knowles presents a preview of the SCI meeting in London on October 26; safe and effective pesticide use
• Adjuvant and Formulation items on the German Plant Protection Conference
• Editorial announcing new services in the Newsletter
• Literature

August 2004

• Effective adjuvant for growth retardant daminozide
• EPA approval of biosurfactant as active ingredient
• SILCA IV, Latin America Adjuvant Meeting, on track
• Announcement ASTM 25th Symposium on Pesticide Formulations and Delivery Systems in Washington DC
• Influence of formulation on the performance of entomopathogenic nematodes against moth larvae
• Fungicide formulations for trunk injection needed; research on carbohydrate based carriers
• Literature

July 2004

• Innovation by formulating 2,4-D acid results in more effective product
• Adjuvants improve diquat performance
• Mike North and Cape Town (SA) welcome ISAA 2004 attendants
• Jerry Green reports about the IWSC meeting in Durban SA
• Alan Knowles about the Nantong Pesticide Formulation Development Centre in China
• SILCA IV; Adjuvant Symposium for South America in Buenos Aires
• Literature

June 2004

• Nanotechnology as a tool for agrochemical formulations investigated by Rhodia scientists.
• Announcement SCI meeting on more effective and more easy to use pesticides.
• Adjuvants promote bio-herbicide activity against opium poppy.
• Summarised state-of-the-art German leaf cuticle school.
• Apple fruit needs surfactant in fungicide and calcium chloride blends.
• Explanation of Point of Deliquescence in relation to foliar uptake of salts.
• Manganese formulations effect potato yield
• Surfactant improved water and nitrogen efficiency
• Literature

May 2004

• Surfactants exerting fungicide activity
• Adjuvants improve fungicide efficacy
• Fluorescence imaging as a tool for investigating formulations
• Adjuvants at IWSS in Durban (SA)
• Application technology for viscous liquids
• Peat wetting improved by surfactants
• Literature
• Book offers
• News in brief

none 2004