Monsanto Technology LLC

Syngenta Crop Protection, Inc.

Bayer Cropscience Ag

Ernest F Sanders

Jawed Asrar

Frank C Kohn

Jay C Pershing

Eric S Sachs

Dennis Paul Phillion

Michael K Stern

Yiwei Ding

Greg A Penner

Schalk Van Wyk

Theunis E M Odendaal

Jeffrey S Coultas

Maurice R De Billot

Theunis M Odendaal

Methods and compositions for deploying refuge seeds together with transgenic crop seeds are provided. The refuge seeds can be non-transgenic seeds of a similar variety to that of the transgenic crop seeds, or the refuge seeds can be a transgenic variety.

Compositions and methods for deploying a transgenic refuge as a seed blend

A method to protect corn against feeding damage by one or more pests includes the treatment of corn seed having a transgenic event that is targeted against at least one of the pests with thiamethoxam in an amount that is effective against the same or another of the one or more pests. Seeds having such protection are also disclosed.

Method for reducing pest damage to corn by treating transgenic corn seeds with thiamethoxam pesticide

A method of improving the yield and vigor of agronomic plants, in particular leguminous plants such as soybeans, involves treating such plants and/or the propagation material of plants with a composition that includes an active agent, such as a fungicide, that has no significant activity against fungal plant pathogens of the treated plant. When the plant is not wheat, a preferred agent of this type is 4,5-dimethyl-N-(2-propenyl)-2-(trimethylsilyl)-3-thiophenecarboxamide (silthiofam). Plants and plant propagation material, such as seeds, that have been treated by the novel method are also described.

Method of improving yield and vigor of plants

A method of improving the yield and vigor of an agronomic plant involves treating plants such as soybeans and corn and/or their propagation material with a composition that includes an active agent, such as a diazole fungicide, a triazole fungicide, or a strobilurin-type fungicide, which has the capacity to improve the yield and/or the vigor of the plant in the absence of pest pressure by fungal plant pathogens. Formulations that contain a diazole fungicide, a triazole fungicide, or a strobilurin-type fungicide, and plants and plant propagation material, such as seeds, which have been treated by the novel method are also described.

Method of improving yield and vigor of plants by treatment with triazole and strobilurin-type fungicides

A method to protect corn against feeding damage by one or more pests includes the treatment of corn seed having a transgenic event that is targeted against at least one of the pests with a pesticide in an amount that is effective against the same or another of the one or more pests. Seeds having such protection are also disclosed.

Method for reducing pest damage to corn by treating transgenic corn seeds with pesticide

A method to protect corn against feeding damage by one or more pests includes the treatment of corn seed having a transgenic event that is targeted against at least one of the pests with clothianidin pesticide (clothianidin) in an amount that is effective against the same or another of the one or more pests. Seeds having such protection are also disclosed.

Method for reducing pest damage to corn by treating transgenic corn seeds with clothianidin pesticide

A method to protect corn against feeding damage by one or more pests includes the treatment of corn seed having a transgenic event that is targeted against at least one of the pests with a pesticide in an amount that is effective against the same or another of the one or more pests. Seeds having such protection are also disclosed, as well as a means for deploying a non-transgenic refuge crop into a field of transgenic crops.

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Ernest F Sanders