Insecticide mixtures comprising loline alkaloids

• US 10,537,104 B2
• Filed: 05/02/2017
• Issued: 01/21/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 05/06/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Syngenta Participations AG (China National Chemical Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Syngenta Participations AG (China National Chemical Corporation)
• Inventors: Hoegger, Patrik
• Primary Examiner(s): Love, Trevor
• Application Number:
  US16/099,131
• Publication Number:
  US 20190313646A1
• Time in Patent Office: 994 Days
• CPC Class Codes: A01N 43/40 six-membered rings
• CPC Class Codes: A01N 43/90 having two or more relevant hetero rings, condensed among themselves or with a common carbocyclic ring system
• CPC Class Codes: A01N 51/00 Biocides, pest repellants or attractants, or plant growth regulators containing organic compounds having the sequences of atoms O—N—S, X—O—S, N—N—S, O—N—N or O-halogen, regardless of the number of bonds each atom has and with no atom of these sequences forming part of a heterocyclic ring

Abstract

The present invention relates to pesticidal mixtures. In particular it relates to mixtures of loline alkaloids with other pesticides. Such mixtures are useful for the control of insect pests and for improving the yield of crop plants.

Claims

1. A composition comprising a synergistic ratio of (A) at least one loline alkaloid selected from the group comprising N-acetylloline, N-formylloline, N-acetylnorloline, and mixtures thereof, and (B) a pesticide selected from the group consisting of flonicamid and thiamethoxam.

2. A composition according to claim 1 further comprising one or more formulation adjuvants.

3. A composition according to claim 1, wherein component (A) comprises N-formylloline and N-acetylloline.

4. A composition according to claim 1, wherein component (A) comprises N-acetylloline, N-formylloline, and N-acetylnorloline in a weight ratio from 1:

3;

1 to 1;

6;

3.

5. A composition according to claim 1 wherein component (B) is flonicamid, and the weight ratio of (A) to (B) is from 1:

3 to 1;

100.

6. A method of controlling Thrips tabaci or Myzus persicae pests comprising contacting the pests with the composition of claim 5.

7. A composition according to claim 1 wherein component (B) is thiamethoxam and the weight ratio of (A) to (B) is 1:

4.

8. A method of controlling Myzus persicae pests comprising contacting the pests with the composition of claim 7.