Diamide Insecticide and Silicic Acid Agrochemical Combinations

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current combinations of anthranilamide insecticides with fungicides and plant health promoters lack broad-spectrum disease control and enhanced plant health, leading to decreased crop tolerance, increased resistance, and lower use rates, necessitating a formulation that offers improved efficacy and yield while reducing fungal disease incidence and enhancing insecticidal activity.

Innovation Solution

A combination of diamide insecticides such as broflanilide, chlorantraniliprole, cyantraniliprole, cyclaniliprole, cyhalodiamide, flubendiamide, and tetraniliprole, paired with multi-site fungicides like dithiocarbamates and plant health promoting agents like silicic acid-based additives, to enhance insecticidal, fungicidal, and plant growth-promoting activities.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If diamide insecticides are used alone, then insecticidal activity is achieved, but fungicidal control and plant health promotion are insufficient

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvespectrum of controlVSAvoidefficacy
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines diamide insecticides with multi-site fungicides and plant health promoters in a single composition, creating a triple-action formulation that simultaneously provides insect control, fungal disease management, and plant health benefits, thereby resolving the contradiction between spectrum and efficacy

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The composition is designed to perform multiple functions: insecticidal activity from diamides, fungicidal activity from multi-site fungicides, and plant health promotion from silica-based additives, making a single application serve multiple agricultural needs

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Reliability

If higher use rates of individual compounds are applied, then efficacy is improved, but crop tolerance decreases and resistance increases

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveefficacyVSAvoidcrop tolerance and resistance
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent changes the parameter of active ingredient combinations, using sub-lethal doses of diamide insecticides combined with multi-site fungicides and plant health promoters, which maintains efficacy while reducing the selection pressure for resistance development

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Solution Approach 2:

The formulation uses a composite approach combining three different types of agrochemicals with different modes of action, where the multi-site fungicides and plant health promoters enhance the overall efficacy, allowing reduced doses of the diamide insecticide

Inventive Principle:
Principle #40Composite materials

3Object-affected harmful factors

If lower use rates are imposed, then resistance is reduced, but broad-spectrum disease control and plant health enhancement are insufficient

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveresistanceVSAvoiddisease control spectrum and plant health
Core Design Contradiction:
Object-affected harmful factorsVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges diamide insecticides with multi-site fungicides and plant health promoters, where the combination of sub-lethal doses of multiple actives with different modes of action achieves broad-spectrum disease control and plant health enhancement while reducing resistance development

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

Plant health promoters act as intermediaries that enhance the overall performance of the composition, improving plant defense mechanisms and health status, which complements the reduced-dose insecticidal and fungicidal activities

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS11517016B2Agrochemical combinations
Publication Date: 2022.12.06 UPL LTD

AI summary

A combination comprising at least one diamide insecticide; and at least a silicic acid based plant health promoting additive, and a composition comprising the same.