Ethaboxam Metconazole Plant Disease Control Composition

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current agents for controlling plant diseases, such as ethaboxam and metconazole, have limitations in effectiveness, necessitating the development of more potent combinations for comprehensive disease control.

Innovation Solution

A composition combining ethaboxam and metconazole in specific weight ratios, used as seed treatment agents or applied to plants, providing a broad-spectrum control method for various plant diseases, particularly those caused by Oomycetes, through formulations including inert carriers and surfactants.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If ethaboxam and metconazole are used separately as plant disease control agents, then they provide basic disease control functionality, but their control effectiveness is limited and insufficient for comprehensive disease control

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontrol effectivenessVSAvoidbroad-spectrum control capability
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines ethaboxam and metconazole into a single composition to achieve synergistic effects. The composition contains ethaboxam at 0.01-10% by weight and metconazole at 0.01-10% by weight, where the two active ingredients work together to provide enhanced control effectiveness against multiple plant diseases including Oomycetes, fungi, and bacteria, thereby resolving the limitation of using either agent separately

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

2Reliability

If a combination of ethaboxam and metconazole is developed for broad-spectrum disease control, then control effectiveness is improved, but the complexity of the composition increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontrol effectivenessVSAvoidcomposition complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent creates a composite composition by formulating ethaboxam and metconazole together with carriers and adjuvants. This composite approach allows the two active ingredients to be delivered simultaneously in a single application, providing broad-spectrum disease control while managing composition complexity through systematic formulation design

Inventive Principle:
Principle #40Composite materials

Data Source

PatentUS8324131B2Composition and method for controlling plant diseases
Publication Date: 2012.12.04 SUMITOMO CHEM CO LTD

AI summary

Disclosed is a composition for controlling plant diseases, which contains ethaboxam and metconazole as active ingredients. Also disclosed is a method for controlling plant diseases, which is characterized in that effective amounts of ethaboxam and metconazole are applied to a plant or the soil where the plant grows.