Use of clethodim for insect control

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2024224995-A1
Application number	US-202218558871-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	May 3, 2022
Priority date	May 4, 2021
Publication date	Jul 11, 2024
Grant date	—

Abstract

Use of clethodim as an insect control agent, in particular for controlling whitefly.

First claim

1 . A method for controlling a whitefly pest on a crop plant by applying an insecticidally effective amount of the active ingredient clethodim, or a composition thereof, to the pest, to a locus of the pest, to a crop plant susceptible to attack by the pest, or to a plant propagation material thereof.

2 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the composition comprises at least one adjuvant or carrier.

3 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the adjuvant is selected from a mineral oil, a vegetable oil, an esterified vegetable oil, a methylated vegetable oil or an alkyl ester phosphate-based adjuvant, and preferably, an alkyl ester phosphate-based adjuvant.

4 . The method according to claim 1 , further comprising the use of at least one herbicide safener.

5 . The method according to claim 4 , wherein the safener is selected from at least one of benoxacor, cloquintocet (including cloquintocet-mexyl), cyprosulfamide, dichlormid, fenchlorazole (including fenchlorazole-ethyl), fenclorim, fluxofenim, furilazole, isoxadifen (including isoxadifen ethyl), mefenpyr (including mefenpyr-diethyl), metcamifen and oxabetrinil.

6 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the composition is an emulsifiable concentrate diluted in an aqueous medium.

7 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the composition further comprises at least one additional active ingredient.

8 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the whitefly pest is selected from citrus blackfly ( Aleurocanthus woglumi ), cabbage whitefly ( Aleyrodes proletella ), silverleaf whitefly ( Bemisia tabaci ) or glasshouse whitefly ( Trialeurodes vaporariorum ).

9 . The method according to claim 8 , wherein the whitefly pest is silverleaf whitefly ( Bemisia tabaci ).

10 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the crop plant is selected from: (i) soybean, (ii) cotton, or (iii) a plant from the order Cucurbitaceae or Solanaceae.

11 . The method according to claim 10 , wherein the crop plant is soybean.

12 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein clethodim is applied at a rate of 20 to 200 g/ha.

13 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein clethodim is applied at a rate of 30 to 150 g/ha.

14 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the application is a spray application.

15 . The use of clethodim as an insecticide for the treatment of whitefly infestation on a crop plant.

Assignees

• Syngenta Crop Protection Ag

Inventors

• Senn Robert
• Buchholz Anke

Classifications

• 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 · CPC title

• A01P7/04 Primary

  Insecticides · CPC title

• A01N35/10 Primary

  containing a carbon-to-nitrogen double bond · CPC title