METHOD FOR INCREASE OF CROP YIELD USING GLYPHOSATE AND DERIVATIVES THEREOF

• Main Authors: GRAHAM, WILLIAM, BRANTS, IVO
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Russian
• Published: 30.10.2000
• Edition: 7
• Subjects: AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; BIOCIDES, e.g. AS DISINFECTANTS, AS PESTICIDES, AS HERBICIDES; FISHING; FORESTRY; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HUNTING; PEST REPELLANTS OR ATTRACTANTS; PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS; PRESERVATION OF BODIES OF HUMANS OR ANIMALS OR PLANTS OR PARTSTHEREOF; TRAPPING

1. A method for the increase of crop yield, characterised in that the crop is selected from glyphosate tolerant sugar beet, fodder beet, corn, oilseed rape and cotton, and that glyphosate is applied at a usually lethal dose. 2. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that it is applied at a usually lethal dose between 0,2 and 6,0 kg a.e./ha. 3. The method according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that glyphosate or a derivative thereof is applied in a single treatment or in successive treatments. 4. The method according to any of claims 1-3, characterized in that it is a glyphosate salt, preferably, the mono-isopropylammonium salt, the ammonium salt or sodium salt, or mixtures thereof. 5. The according to any of claims 1-4 characterized in that it is used in a formulation with an adjuvant selected from amines, such as ethoxylated alkyl amines, particularly tallow amines, cocoamines, surfactants sold under the tradename Ethomeen, amine oxides, such as surfactants sold under the tradename Empigen OB; quaternary ammonium salts, such as ethoxylated and/or propoxylated quaternary ammonium salts, more particularly surfactants sold under the tradenames Ethoquad, Emcol CC and Dodigen; alkylpolyglycoside or alkylglycoside, glucose and sucrose-esters, preferably with an ethoxylated polypropoxylated quaternary ammonium surfactant. 6. The method according to claim 5 to increase the yield and/or quality of a sugar or fodder beet crop. 7. The method according to any of claims 1-6 wherein the crop contains a gene which encodes EPSPS polypeptide. 8. The method according to any of claims 1-6 wherein the crop contains a gene encoding a glyphosate oxidoreductase enzyme. 9. The method according to any of claims 1-6 wherein the plant contains a gene encoding class II EPSPS enzymes.