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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 26, 2013
Filed:
Mar. 04, 2005
Jawed Asrar, Chesterfield, MO (US);
Frank C. Kohn, St. Louis, MO (US);
Jawed Asrar, Chesterfield, MO (US);
Frank C. Kohn, St. Louis, MO (US);
Monsanto Technology, LLC, St. Louis, MO (US);
Abstract
A method of preventing damage to the seed and/or shoots and foliage of a plant by a pest includes treating the seed from which the plant grows with a composition that includes a combination of thiamethoxam and at least one pyrethrin or synthetic pyrethroid which is selected from the group consisting of taufluvalinate, flumethrin, trans-cyfluthrin, kadethrin, bioresmethrin, tetramethrin, phenothrin, empenthrin, cyphenothrin, prallethrin, imiprothrin, allethrin and bioallethrin. The treatment is applied to the unsown seed. In another embodiment, the seed is a transgenic seed having at least one heterologous gene encoding for the expression of a protein having pesticidal activity against a first pest and the composition has activity against at least one second pest. Treated seeds are also provided.