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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 21, 1997
Filed:
Apr. 03, 1996
Ralph W Magin, Baton Rouge, LA (US);
Joe D Sauer, Baton Rouge, LA (US);
John R Maloney, Baton Rouge, LA (US);
Albemarle Corporation, Richmond, VA (US);
Abstract
Glyphosate formulations which are effective even when employed at dosages below the dosage currently recommended for post-emergent herbicidal or plant growth regulant use are described. They are formulated as water solutions or powders or granules of (a) one or more agriculturally acceptable amine, alkali metal, alkylsulfonium, alkylphosphonium, sulfonylamine, and/or aminoguanidine salts of glyphosate as the only herbicide(s) used in the forming composition; and (b) one or more water-soluble particular types of aliphatic hydrocarbyl sulfonic acid or agriculturally acceptable salt or ester thereof as the only surfactants used in forming the composition. The hydrocarbyl group of the sulfonate is a saturated aliphatic group having in the range of about 10 to about 18 carbon atoms and is terminally substituted by the foregoing functionality.