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Contents 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007 issues
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February 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
January 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
February 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
January 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
February 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
January 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
February 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
January 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
