MIXTURES FOR REDUCING NITROUS OXIDE AND/OR AMMONIA EMISSION FROM SOILS

• US 20150148231A1
• Filed: 02/15/2013
• Published: 05/28/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 02/16/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: BASF SE
• Original Assignee: BASF SE
• Inventors: Nave, Barbara, Brahm, Lutz, Wissemeier, Alexander, Zerulla, Wolfram, Reddig, Achim, Schmid, Markus, Pasda, Gregor, Lohe, Daniella
• Application Number:
  US14/406,398
• Publication Number:
  US 20150148231A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 504/101
• CPC Class Codes: A01N 25/00 Biocides, pest repellants or attractants, or plant growth regulators, characterised by their forms, or by their non-active ingredients or by their methods of application , e.g. seed treatment or sequential application; Substances for reducing the noxious effect of the active ingredients to organisms other than pests
• CPC Class Codes: A01N 37/50 the nitrogen atom being doubly bound to the carbon skeleton
• CPC Class Codes: A01N 43/16 with oxygen as the ring hetero atom
• CPC Class Codes: A01N 43/40 six-membered rings
• CPC Class Codes: A01N 43/54 1,3-Diazines; Hydrogenated 1,3-diazines
• CPC Class Codes: A01N 43/56 1,2-Diazoles; Hydrogenated 1,2-diazoles
• CPC Class Codes: A01N 43/88 six-membered rings with three ring hetero atoms
• CPC Class Codes: A01N 47/24 containing the groups , or; Thio analogues thereof
• CPC Class Codes: C05G 3/60 Biocides or preservatives, e.g. disinfectants, pesticides or herbicides; Pest repellants or attractants
• CPC Class Codes: C05G 3/90 for affecting the nitrification of ammonium compounds or urea in the soil
• CPC Class Codes: Y02P 60/21 Dinitrogen oxide [N2O], e.g. using aquaponics, hydroponics or efficiency measures

Abstract

The present invention relates to an agrochemical mixture for reducing nitrous oxide and/or ammonia emission from soils, comprising:

1) a composition (component A) comprising N-n-butylthiophosphoric triamide (NBTPT) and/or N-n-propylthiophosphoric triamide (NPTPT); and

2) at least one strobilurin (component B) selected from the group consisting of pyraclostrobin, azoxystrobin, dimoxystrobin, enestroburin, fluoxastrobin, kresoxim-methyl, metominostrobin, orysastrobin, picoxystrobin, trifloxystrobin, pyrametostrobin, pyraoxystrobin, coumoxystrobin, coumethoxystrobin, fenaminostrobin (=diclofenoxystrobin), flufenoxystrobin, 2-(2-(6-(3-chloro-2-methyl-phenoxy)-5-fluoro-pyrimidin-4-yloxy)-phenyl)-2-methoxyimino-N-methyl-acetamide, 3-methoxy-2-(2-(N-(4-methoxy-phenyl)-cyclopropane-carboximidoylsulfanylmethyl)-phenyl)-acrylic acid methyl ester, methyl (2-chloro-5-[(1-(3-methylbenzyloxyimino)ethyl]benzyl)carbamate and 2-(2-(3-(2,6-dichlorophenyl)-1-methyl-allylideneaminooxymethyl)-phenyl)-2-methoxyimino-N methyl-acetamide

in synergistically effective amounts.

In addition, the present invention relates to the use of a mixture as defined above for synergistically reducing nitrous oxide emission from soils.

Moreover, the present invention relates to the use of a mixture as defined above for synergistically reducing ammonia emission from soils.

Claims

1-18. -18. (canceled)

19. An agrochemical mixture for reducing nitrous oxide and/or ammonia emission from soils, comprising:

1) a composition (component A) comprising N-n-butylthiophosphoric triamide (NBTPT) and/or N-n-propylthiophosphoric triamide (NPTPT); and

2) at least one strobilurin (component B) selected from the group consisting of pyraclostrobin, azoxystrobin, dimoxystrobin, enestroburin, fluoxastrobin, kresoxim-methyl, metominostrobin, orysastrobin, picoxystrobin, trifloxystrobin, pyrametostrobin, pyraoxystrobin, coumoxystrobin, coumethoxystrobin, fenaminostrobin (=diclofenoxystrobin), flufenoxystrobin, 2-(2-(6-(3-chloro-2-methyl-phenoxy)-5-fluoro-pyrimidin-4-yloxy)-phenyl)-2-methoxyimino-N-methyl-acetamide, 3-methoxy-2-(2-(N-(4-methoxy-phenyl)-cyclopropane-carboximidoylsulfanylmethyl)-phenyl)-acrylic acid methyl ester, methyl (2-chloro-5-[1-(3-methylbenzyloxyimino)ethyl]benzyl)carbamate and 2-(2-(3-(2,6-dichlorophenyl)-1-methyl-allylideneaminooxymethyl)-phenyl)-2-methoxyimino-N methyl-acetamide

in synergistically effective amounts.

20. The mixture according to claim 19, wherein the strobilurin (component B) is selected from the group consisting of pyraclostrobin, orysastrobin, azoxystrobin, dimoxystrobin, enestroburin, fluoxastrobin, kresoxim-methyl, metominostrobin, picoxystrobin and trifloxystrobin.

21. The mixture according to claims 19, wherein the strobilurin (component B) is pyraclostrobin.

22. The mixture according to claim 19, additionally comprising at least one fertilizer comprising urea (component C).

23. The mixture according to claim 22, wherein the fertilizer (component C) comprises urea in a form selected from the group consisting of urea, urea ammonium nitrate (UAN), isobutylidene diurea (IBDU), crotonylidene diurea (CDU) and urea formaldehyde (UF).

24. The mixture according to claim 19, additionally comprising at least one nitrification inhibitor (component D) selected from the group consisting of 2-(3,4-dimethyl-pyrazol-1-yl)-succinic acid, 3,4-dimethylpyrazole (DMP), 3,4-dimethylpyrazolephosphate (DMPP), dicyandiamide (DCD), 1H-1,2,4-triazole, 3-methylpyrazole (3-MP), 2-chloro-6-(trichloromethyl)-pyridine, 5-ethoxy-3-trichloromethyl-1,2,4-thiadiazol, 2-amino-4-chloro-6-methyl-pyrimidine, 2-mercapto-benzothiazole, 2-sulfanilamidothiazole, thiourea, sodium azide, potassium azide, 1-hydroxypyrazole, 2-methylpyrazole-1-carboxamide, 4-amino-1,2,4-triazole, 3-mercapto-1,2,4-triazole, 2,4-diamino-6-trichloromethyl-5-triazine, carbon bisulfide, ammonium thiosulfate, sodium trithiocarbonate, 2,3-dihydro-2,2-dimethyl-7-benzofuranol methyl carbamate and N-(2,6-dimethylphenyl)-N-(methoxyacetyl)-alanine methyl ester.

25. A method for reducing nitrous oxide and/or ammonia emission from soils comprising treating plant propagules or agricultural, horticultural, ornamental or silivicultural seeds or the soil where plants grow or the seeds will be planted with a synergistically effective amount of a mixture as defined in claim 19.

26. The method according to claim 25, whereas the composition (component A) comprising N-n-butylthiophosphoric triamide (NBTPT) and/or N-n-propylthiophosphoric triamide (NPTPT) is applied to the soil in-furrow and/or as side-dress and/or as broadcast.

27. The method according to claim 25, wherein a plant growing on soil is treated with the mixture

28. The method according to claim 25, whereas seed is treated with at least one strobilurin (component B).

29. The method according to claim 25 whereas the at least one fertilizer comprising urea (component C) is applied to the soil in-furrow and/or as side-dress and/or as broadcast.

30. The use according to claim 25, whereas components (A), (B), (C) and (D) are formulated separately but applied simultaneously or subsequently, whereas the subsequent application is carried out within a time interval which allows a combined action of the individual components.

31. The method according to claim 25, whereas components (A) and (C) are co-formulated and applied simultaneously.

32. The method according to claim 25, whereas the agrochemical mixture comprises a composition comprising N-n-butylthiophosphoric triamide (NBTPT) and N-n-propylthiophosphoric triamide (NPTPT) as component (A) and pyraclostrobin as component (B) in synergistically effective amounts.

33. The method according to claim 28, wherein the plant is selected from the group consisting of agricultural, silvicultural, ornamental and horticultural plants, each in its natural or genetically modified form.

34. The method according to claim 28, wherein the plant is selected from the group consisting of tomato, potato, wheat, barley, oat, rye, soybean, maize, oilseed rape, canola, sunflower, cotton, sugar cane, sugar beet, rice, sorghum, pasture grass and grassland.

35. The method according to claim 25, wherein the strobilurin (component B) is selected from the group consisting of pyraclostrobin, orysastrobin, azoxystrobin, dimoxystrobin, enestroburin, fluoxastrobin, kresoxim-methyl, metominostrobin, picoxystrobin and trifloxystrobin.

36. The method according to claim 25, wherein the strobilurin (component B) is pyraclostrobin.

37. The method according to claim 25, additionally comprising at least one fertilizer comprising urea (component C).

38. The method according to claim 37, wherein the fertilizer (component C) comprises urea in a form selected from the group consisting of urea, urea ammonium nitrate (UAN), isobutylidene diurea (IBDU), crotonylidene diurea (CDU) and urea formaldehyde (UF).