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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 20, 1998
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; and (b) one or more water-soluble polyethoxylated monohydric primary alcohol having a .beta.-branched alkyl group which has a total of at least about 10 carbon atoms and at least about 3 carbon atoms in the branch on the .beta.-carbon atom or agriculturally acceptable salt or ester thereof.