METHOD FOR INCREASING THE DRY BIOMASS OF PLANTS

• US 20100095396A1
• Filed: 11/16/2007
• Published: 04/15/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 11/17/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: BASF SE
• Original Assignee: BASF SE
• Inventors: Zeller, Alissa, Voeste, Dirk, Haden, Egon
• Application Number:
  US12/446,833
• Publication Number:
  US 20100095396A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 800/276
• CPC Class Codes: A01N 43/24 with two or more hetero atoms
• CPC Class Codes: A01N 43/40 six-membered rings
• CPC Class Codes: A01N 43/56 1,2-Diazoles; Hydrogenated 1,2-diazoles
• CPC Class Codes: A01N 43/60 1,4-Diazines; Hydrogenated 1,4-diazines
• CPC Class Codes: A01N 47/02 the carbon atom having no bond to a nitrogen atom
• CPC Class Codes: A01N 47/40 the carbon atom having a double or triple bond to nitrogen, e.g. cyanates, cyanamides
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: Y02P 60/20 Reduction of greenhouse gas [GHG] emissions in agriculture, e.g. CO2

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method for increasing the dry biomass of a plant via increasing the carbon assimilation by treating a plant, a part of the plant, the locus where the plant is growing or is intended to grow and/or the plant propagules with at least one insecticide. The invention also relates to a method for increasing the biomass of the fruit of a plant via increasing the carbon assimilation, the fruit containing 5 to 25% by weight of residual moisture, based on the total weight of the fruit, by treating a plant, a part of the plant, the locus where the plant is growing or is intended to grow and/or the plant propagules with at least one insecticide. The invention further relates to a method for increasing the carbon dioxide sequestration from the atmosphere by treating a plant, a part of the plant, the locus where the plant is growing or is intended to grow and/or the plant propagules with at least one insecticide as described below.

Claims

1-16. -16. (canceled)

17. A method for increasing the dry biomass of a plant via increasing the carbon assimilation which method comprises treating a plant, a part of the plant, the locus where the plant is growing or is intended to grow and/or the plant propagules with at least one insecticide.

18. The method as claimed in claim 17, where the insecticide is selected from GABA antagonist compounds, nicotinic receptor agonist/antagonist compounds and anthranilamide compounds of formula Γ

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19. The method as claimed in claim 18, where the GABA antagonist compounds are selected from acetoprole, endosulfan, ethiprole, 5-amino-1-(2,6-dichloro-α

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-trifluoro-p-tolyl)-4-trifluoromethylsulfinylpyrazole-3-carbonitrile (fipronil), vaniliprole, pyrafluprole, pyriprole and the phenylpyrazole compound of formula Γ

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20. The method as claimed in claim 19, where the GABA antagonist compound is fipronil.

21. The method as claimed in claim 18, where the nicotinic receptor agonist/antagonist compounds are selected from clothianidin, dinotefuran, (EZ)-1-(6-chloro-3-pyridylmethyl)-N-nitroimidazolidin-2-ylideneamine (imidacloprid), (EZ)-3-(2-chloro-1,3-thiazol-5-ylmethyl)-5-methyl-1,3,5-oxadiazinan-4-ylidene(nitro)amine (thiamethoxam), nitenpyram, acetamiprid and thiacloprid.

22. The method as claimed in claim 21, where the nicotinic receptor agonist/antagonist compounds are selected from imidacloprid, thiamethoxam and clothianidin.

23. The use of an insecticide as defined in claim 17 for increasing the carbon dioxide sequestration from the atmosphere by a plant, where the plant is selected from soybean and C4 plants.

24. The method or use as claimed in claim 17, where the C4 plants are selected from corn, sugar cane, millet, sorghum, elephant grass (Miscanthus), switchgrass (Miscanthus sinensis) and amaranth.