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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 30, 2010
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2001
Maurice R. DE Billot, Royston, GB;
Schalk Van Wyk, Potchefstroom, ZA;
Theunis E. M. Odendaal, Potchefstroom, ZA;
Dennis Paul Phillion, St. Charles, MO (US);
Jeffrey S. Coultas, Northfield, MN (US);
Ernest F. Sanders, St. Louis, MO (US);
Greg A. Penner, Winnipeg, CA;
Jawed Asrar, Chesterfield, MO (US);
Michael K. Stern, Clayton, MO (US);
Maurice R. De Billot, Royston, GB;
Schalk Van Wyk, Potchefstroom, ZA;
Theunis E. M. Odendaal, Potchefstroom, ZA;
Dennis Paul Phillion, St. Charles, MO (US);
Jeffrey S. Coultas, Northfield, MN (US);
Ernest F. Sanders, St. Louis, MO (US);
Greg A. Penner, Winnipeg, CA;
Jawed Asrar, Chesterfield, MO (US);
Michael K. Stern, Clayton, MO (US);
Monsanto Technology, LLC, St. Louis, MO (US);
Abstract
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.