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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 02, 2006
Filed:
Oct. 20, 2003
Applicants:
Mara Destro, Bologna, IT;
Michela Bonora, Bologna, IT;
Galileo Magnani, Pescia, IT;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Ciba Specialty Chemicals Corp., Tarrytown, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C08K 5/34 (2006.01); C08K 5/3492 (2006.01); A01G 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The instant invention relates to a thermoplastic polymer composition useful in greenhouse films to enhance plant growth or in general bio-mass production. Further aspects of the invention are a process for enhancing plant growth in greenhouses by incorporating a photoactive additive together with light stabilizers into the greenhouse film and the use of the condensation product of dialkylamino benzaldehyde and barbituric acid together with light stabilizers as a plant growth enhancing additive in polymeric greenhouse films.