Active compounds combinations comprising prothioconazole and fluxapyroxad

Abstract

The present invention relates to active compound combinations, in particular within a fungicide composition, which comprises (A) prothioconazole and (B) fluxapyroxad and optionally (C) a further fungicidally active compound. Moreover, the invention relates to a method for curatively or preventively controlling the phytopathogenic fungi of plants or crops (e.g. cereals such as wheat, barley, rye, oats, millet and triticale; soya beans; rice; corn/maize; oil seed rape including canola; beans, peas, peanuts; sugar beet, fodder beet, beetroot; potatoes; cotton), and to the use of a combination according to the invention for the treatment of seed, to a method for protecting a seed and not at least to the treated seed.

1 . A method for controlling phytopathogenic fungi in a crop selected from wheat, barley, rye, triticale, oats, millet, rice, rape, canola, pea, peanut, sugar beet, fodder beet, beetroot, potato, or cotton comprising applying an active compound combination comprising (A) prothioconazole and (B) fluxapyroxad to the crop seed, crop plant, crop fruit and/or to soil on which the crop plant grows or is supposed to grow. 
     
     
         2 . A method according to  claim 1 , wherein the compound combination comprises as sole active ingredients (A) prothioconazole and (B) fluxapyroxad. 
     
     
         3 . A method according to  claim 1 , wherein the combination comprises an additional third fungicidally active compound (C). 
     
     
         4 . A method according to  claim 1 , wherein the plant, the fruits of plants, or the soil on which the plant grows or is intended to grow are treated. 
     
     
         5 . A method according to  claim 1 , wherein leaves are treated from 0.1 to 10,000 g/ha or seeds are treated from 2 to 200 g per 100 kg of seed employed. 
     
     
         6 . A method according to  claim 1 , wherein seed, seed of transgenic plants, and/or transgenic plants are treated 
     
     
         7 . A method according to  claim 1 , wherein the crop comprises wheat, and the method controls wheat diseases caused by  Alternaria  spp.,  Alternaria triticina, Ascochyta tritici, Athelia rolfsi, Bipolaris sorokiniana, Blumeria graminis, Cephalosporium gramineum, Ceratobasidium cereale, Cladosporium  spp.,  Cladosporium herbarum, Clathrospora pentamera, Claviceps purpurea, Cochliobolus sativus, Colletotrichum grami - nicola, Coprinus psychromorbidus, Dilophospora alopecuri, Drechslera campanulata, Drechslera triticirepentis, Drechslera wirreganesis, Epicoccum  spp.,  Erysiphe graminis, Fusarium avenaceum, Fusarium culmorum, Fusarium graminearum, Fusarium pseudograminearum, Gaeumannomyces graminis, Gaeumannomyces graminis  var.  avenae, Gaeumannomyces graminis  var.  tritici, Gibberella avenacea, Gibberella zeae, Gibellina cerealis, Glomerella graminicola, Hymenula cerealis, Lagena radicicola, Leptosphaeria herpotrichoides, Leptosphaeria microscopica, Leptosphaeria nodorum, Ligniera pilorum, Linochora graminis, Microdochium bolleyi, Microdochium nivale, Monographella nivalis, Mycosphaerella graminicola, Oidium monilioides, Olpidium brassicae, Phaeosphaeria avenaria  f. sp.  triticea, Phaeosphaeria nodorum, Phoma sorghina, Phoma glomerata, Phyllachora graminis, Pseudocercosporella herpotrichoides  var.  acuformis, Pseudocercosporella herpotrichoides, Puccinia graminis, Puccinia hordei, Puccinia recondita, Puccinia striiformis, Puccinia tritici - duri, Puccinia triticina, Pyrenophora graminea, Pyrenophora semeniperda, Pyrenophora teres, Pyrenophora tritici - repentis, Pythium myrio - tylum, Pythium aphanidermatum, Pythium aristosporum, Pythium arrhenomanes, Pythium graminicola, Pythium iwayamai, Pythium okanoganense, Pythium volutum, Rhizoctonia cerealis, Rhizoctonia solani, Rhizophydium graminis, Sclerophthora macrospore, Sclerotinia borealis, Sclerotium rolfsii, Sclerotium rolfsii, Selenophoma donacis, Septoria nodorum, Septoria tritici, Sphacelia segetum, Sporobolomyces  spp.,  Stagonospora avenae  f. sp.  tritica, Stemphylium  spp.,  Tapesia yallundae, Thanatephorus cucumeris, Tilletia caries, Tilletia controversa, Tilletia foetida, Tilletia indica  (= Neovossia indica ),  Tilletia laevis, Typhula idahoensis, Typhula incarnata, Typhula ishikariensis Imai  var.  canadensis, Typhula ishi - kariensis, Uredo glumarum, Urocystis agropyri, Ustilago segetum avena, Ustilago segetum nuda, Ustilago segetum tritici , and/or  Ustilago tritici.    
     
     
         8 . A method according to  claim 1 , wherein the crop comprises barley, and the method controls barley diseases caused by  Alternaria  spp.,  Apiospora montagnei, Arthrinium arundinis, Ascochyta hordei, Asochyta graminea, Asochyta sorghi, Asochyta tritici, Athelia rolfsii, Bipolaris sorokiniana, Blumeria graminis, Cephalosporium gramineum, Ceratobasidium cereale, Claviceps purpurea, Cochliobolus sativus, Colletotrichum graminicola, Drechslera graminea, Drechslera teres  f.  maculata, Drechslera teres, Drechslera wirreganensis, Erysiphe graminis  f. sp.  hordei, Fusarium culmorum, Fusarium graminearum, Fusarium nivale, Fusarium  spp.,  Gaeumannomyces graminis  var.  tritici, Gibberella zeae, Glomerella graminicola, Helminthosporium tritici - repentis, Microdochium nivale, Monographella nivalis, Oidium monilioides, Phaeosphaeria avenaria  f. sp.  triticea, Pseudocercosoporella herpotrichoides, Pseudoseptoria donacis, Puccinia coronata, Puccinia graminis, Puccinia hordei, Puccinia striiformis, Pyrenophora teres, Pyrenophora tritici - repentis, Pythium arrhenomanes, Pythium graminicola, Pythium iwayamai, Pythium okanoganense, Pythium paddicum, Pythium  spp.,  Pythium tardicrescens, Rhizoctonia cerealis, Rhizoctonia solani, Rhynchosporium secalis, Sclerophthora rayssiae, Sclerotinia borealis, Sclerotium rolfsii, Selenophoma donacis, Septoria donacis, Septoria nodorum, Septoria passerinni, Sphacelia segetum, Stagonospora avenae  f. sp.  triticea, Stagonospora nodrum, Tapesia yallundae, Thanatephorus cucumeris, Tilletia controversa, Typhula idahoensis, Typhula incarnate, Typhula ishikariensis, Ustilago avenae, Ustilago hordei, Ustilago nigra, Ustilago nuda, Ustilago tritici , and/or  Verticillium dahliae.    
     
     
         9 . A method according to  claim 1 , wherein the crop comprises rye or triticale, and the method controls diseases caused by  Aecidium clematidis, Alternaria  spp.,  Bipolaris sorokiniana, Cephalosporium gramineumet  al.,  Ceratobasidium cereale, Cercosporidium graminis, Cladosporium herbarum, Claviceps purpurea, Cochliobolus sativus, Colletotrichum graminicola, Coprinus psychromorbidus, Dilophospora alopecuri, Drechslera tritici - repentis, Epicoccum  spp.,  Erysiphe graminis, Fusarium culmorum, Fusarium graminearum, Fusarium nivale, Fusarium  spp.,  Gaeumannomyces graministritici, Gibberella zeae, Glomerella graminicola, Helminthosporium sativum, Helminthosporium tritici - repentis, Hymenula cerealis, Leptosphaeria nodorum, Leptosphaeria herpotrichoides, Microdochium nivale, Monographella nivalis, Mycosphaerella graminicola, Mycosphaerella tassiana, Myriosclerotinia borealis, Neovossia indica, Phaeosphaeria herpotrichoides, Phaeosphaeria nodorum, Pseudocercosporella herpotrichoides, Pseudoseptoria donacis, Puccinia graminis, Puccinia recondita, Puccinia striiformis, Puccinia, graminissecalis, Pyre - nophora tritici - repentis, Pythium aphanidermatum, Pythium arrhenomanes, Pythium debaryanum, Pythium graminicola, Pythium ultimum, Rhizoctonia cerealis, Rhynchosporium secalis, Sclerotinia borealis, Scolicotrichum graminis, Selenophoma donacis, Septoria nodorum, Septoria secalis, Septoriatritici, Sphacelia segetum, Sporobolomyces  spp.,  Stagonospora nodorum, Stemphylium  spp.,  Tilletia caries, Tilletia controversa, Tilletia foetida, Tilletia indica, Tilletia laevis, Tilletia tritici, Typhula idahoensis, Typhula incarnata, Typhula ishikariensis, Typhula ishikariensis  var.  canadensis, Uredo glumarum, Urocystis occulta , and/or  Ustilago tritici.    
     
     
         10 . A method according to  claim 1 , wherein the crop comprises oats or millet, wherein the method controls diseases caused by  Bipolaris sorokiniana, Bipolaris victoriae, Ceratobasidium cereale, Claviceps purpurea, Cochliobolus sativus, Cochliobolus victoriae, Colletotrichum graminicola, Drechslera avenacea, Drechslera avenae, Erysiphe graminis avenae, Erysiphe graminis, Fusarium culmorum, Fusarium graminearum, Fusarium nivale, Fusarium  spp.,  Gaeumannomyces graminis  var.  avenae, Gaeumannomyces graminis, Gibberella zeae, Glomerella graminicola, Helminthosporium avenaceum, Helminthosporium avenae, Microdochium nivale, Monographella nivalis, Oidium monilioides, Phaeosphaeria avenaria, Puccinia coronata, Puccinia graminis, Pyrenophora avenae, Pythium debaryanum, Pythium irregulare, Pythium  spp.,  Pythium ultimum, Rhizoctonia cerealis, Rhizoctonia solani, Sclerophthora macrosporaet  al.,  Septoria avenae, Sphacelia segetum, Stagonospora avenae, Thanatephorus cucumeris, Typhula idahoensis, Typhula incarnata, Typhula ishikariensis, Ustilago avenae, Ustilago kolleri , and/or  Ustilago segetum.    
     
     
         11 . A method according to  claim 1 , wherein the crop comprises rice, and the method controls rice diseases caused by  Achlya conspicua, Achlya klebsiana, Acrocylindrium oryzae, Alternaria padwickii, Athelia rolfsii, Ceratobasidium oryzae - sativae, Cercospora janseana, Cercospora oryzae, Cochiobolus lunatus, Cochliobolus miyabeanus, Cochliobolus miyabeanus, Curvularia lunata, Curvularia  spp.,  Drechslera gigantean, Entyloma oryzae, Fusarium  spp.,  Gaeumannomyces graminis, Magnaporthe grisea, Magnaporthe salvinii, Microdochium oryzae, Nakataea sigmoidae, Neovossia horrida, Pyricularia grisea, Pyricularia oryzae, Pythium dissotocum, Pythium spinosum, Pythium spp., Rhizoctonia oryzae, Rhizoctonia oryzae - sativae, Rhizoctonia solani, Rhynchosporium oryzae, Sarocladium oryzae, Sclerophthora macrospore, Sclerotium oryzae, Sclerotium rolfsii, Sphaerulina oryzina, Thanatephorus cucumeris, Tilletia barclayana , and/or  Ustilaginoidea virens.    
     
     
         12 . A method according to  claim 1 , wherein the crop comprises oil seed rape or canola, wherein the method controls diseases caused by  Albugo candida, Albugo cruciferarum, Alternaria alternata, Alternaria brassicae, Alternaria brassicicola, Alternaria japonica, Alternaria raphani, Alternaria  spp.,  Aphanomyces raphani, Ascochyta  spp.,  Asteromella brassica, Athelia rolfsii, Botryotinia fuckeliana, Botrytis cinerea, Cercospora brassicicola, Cercosporella brassicae, Cladosporium  sp.,  Colletotrichum gloeosporioides, Colletotrichum higginsianum, Cylindrosporium concentricum, Erysiphecruciferarum, Erysiphepolygoni, Fusarium oxysporum, Fusarium oxysporum  sp.  conglutinans, Fusarium  spp.,  Gliocladium roseum, Glomerella cingulata, Leptosphaeria maculans, Macrophomina phaseolina, Mycosphaerella brassicicola, Mycosphaerella capsellae, Nectria ochroleuca, Peronospora parasitica, Peronospora  sp.,  Phoma lingam, Phymatotrichopsis omnivora, Phytophthora megasperma, Plasmodiophora brassicae, Pseudocercosporella capsellae, Pyrenopeziza brassicae, Pythium debaryanum, Pythium irregulare, Pythium  spp.,  Rhizoctonia solani, Rhizopus stolonifer, Sclerotinia sclerotiorum, Sclerotium rolfsii, Thanatephorus cucumeris, Thanatephorus cucumeris, Urocystis brassicae , and/or  Verticillium longisporum.    
     
     
         13 . A method according to  claim 1 , wherein the crop comprises pea, and the method controls pea diseases caused by  Alternaria alternata, Aphanomyces euteiches  f. sp.  pisi, Ascochyta pinodella, Ascochyta pinodes, Ascochyta pisi, Botryotinia fuckeliana, Botrytis cinerea, Cercospora pisa - sativae, Chalara elegans, Cladosporium cladosporioides  f. sp.  pisicola, Cladosporium pisicola, Colletotrichum gloeosporioides, Colletotrichum pisi, Erysiphe pisi, Fusarium oxysporum, Fusarium oxysporum  f. sp.  pisi, Fusarium solani, Fusicladium pisicola, Glomerella cingulata, Mycosphaerella pinodes, Oidium  sp.,  Peronospora viciae, Phoma pinodella, Pythium  spp.,  Rhizoctonia solani, Sclerotinia sclerotiorum, Septoria pisi, Thanatephorus cucumeris, Thielaviopsis basicola , and/or  Uromyces fabae.    
     
     
         14 . A method according to  claim 1 , wherein the crop comprises peanut, and the method controls peanut diseases caused by  Alternaria alternata, Alternaria arachidis, Alternaria tenuissima, Ascochyta adzamethica, Aspergillus flavus, Aspergillus niger, Aspergillus parasiticus, Athelia rolfsii, Bipolaris spicifera, Botryotinia fuckeliana, Botrytis cinerea, Calonectria crotalariae, Calonectria keyotensis, Cercospora arachidicola, Cercosporidium personatum, Chalara elegans, Choanephora  spp.,  Cochliobolus spicifer, Colletotrichum arachidis, Colletotrichum dematium, Colletotrichum gloeosporioides, Colletotrichum mangenoti, Cristulariella moricola, Cylindrocladium crotalariae, Cylindrocladium scoparium, Diaporthe phaseolorum, Didymosphaeria arachidicola, Diplodia gossypina, Drechslera spicifera, Fusarium equiseti, Fusarium oxysporum, Fusarium scirpi, Fusarium solani, Fusarium  spp.,  Gibberella intricans, Glomerella cingulata, Grovesinia pyramidalis, Lasiodiplodia theobromae, Leptosphaerulina crassiasca, Macrophomina phaseolina, Mycosphaerella arachidicola, Mycosphaerella arachidis, Mycosphaerella berkeleyi, Myrothecium roridum, Nectria haematococca, Oidium arachidis, Olpidium brassicae, Pestalotiopsis arachidis, Phaeoisariopsis personata, Phoma arachidicola, Phoma microspora, Phomopsis phaseoli, Phomopsis sojae, Phomopsis  spp.,  Phyllosticta arachidis - hypogaea, Phyllosticta sojicola, Phymatotrichopsis omnivore, Phymatotrichum omnivorum, Pleosphaerulina sojicola, Pleospora tarda, Puccinia arachidis, Pythium aphanidermatum, Pythium debaryanum, Pythium irregulare, Pythium myriotylum, Pythium  spp.,  Pythium ultimum, Rhizoctonia bataticola, Rhizoctonia solani, Rhizoctonia  spp.,  Rhizopus  spp.,  Sclerotinia minor, Sclerotinia sclerotiorum, Sclerotium cinnomomi, Sclerotium rolfsii, Sphaceloma arachidis, Stemphylium botryosum, Thanatephorus cucumeris, Thielaviopsis basicola, Verticillium albo - atrum , and/or  Verticillium dahliae.    
     
     
         15 . A method according to  claim 1 , wherein the crop comprises sugar beet, fodder beet or beetroot, and the method controls diseases caused by  Alternaria brassicae, Alternaria alternata, Aphanomyces cochlioides, Aphanomyces cochlioides, Athelia rolfsii, Cercospora beticola, Choanephora cucurbitatum, Colletotrichum dematium  f.  spinaciae, Cylindrocladium, Erysiphe betae, Erysiphe polygoni, Fusarium oxysporum  f. sp.  betae, Fusarium oxysporum  f. sp.  spinaciae, Fusarium  spp.,  Helicobasidium brebissonii, Macrophomina phaseolina, Peronospora farinosa  f. sp.  betae, Peronospora farinosa, Peronospora schachtii, Phoma betae, Phymatotrichopsis omnivora, Phymatotrichum omnivorum, Physarum cinereum, Physoderma leproides, Phytophthora drechsleri, Pleospora betae, Pleospora tarda, Puccinia subnitens, Pythium aphanidermatum, Pythium deliense, Pythium irregulare, Pythium  spp.,  Ramulariabeticola, Rhizoctonia crocorum, Rhizoctonia solani, Rhizopus arrhizus, Rhizopus stolonifer, Sclerotinia sclerotiorum, Sclerotium rolfsii, Stemphylium botryosum, Thanatephorus cucumeris, Uromycesbetae, Urophlyctis leproides , and/or  Verticillium albo - atrum.    
     
     
         16 . A method according to  claim 1 , wherein the crop comprises potato, and the method controls potato diseases caused by  Aecidium cantensis, Alternaria alternata, Alternaria solani, Alternaria tenuis, Angiosorus solani, Athelia rolfsii, Botryotinia fuckeliana, Botrytis cinerea, Cercospora concors, Cercospora solani, Cercospora solani - tuberosi, Choanephora cucurbitarum, Colletotrichum atramentarium, Colletotrichum coccodes, Dematophora  sp.,  Erysiphe cichoracearum, Fusarium acuminatum, Fusarium avenaceum, Fusarium crookwellense, Fusarium culmorum, Fusarium equiseti, Fusarium oxysporum, Fusarium sambucinum, Fusarium solani  f. sp.  eumartii, Fusarium solani  var.  coeruleum. Fusarium  spp.,  Fusarium sulphureum, Giberella pulicaris, Helminthosporium solani, Macrophomina phaseolina, Mycovellosiella concors, Phoma andigena  var.  andina, Phoma exigua  var.  exigua, Phoma exigua  var.  foveata, Phoma foveata, Phoma solanicola  f.  foveata, Phytophthora cryptogea, Phytophthora drechsleri, Phytophthora erythroseptica, Phytophthora infestans, Phytophthora megasperma, Phytophthora nicotianae  var.  parasitica, Phytophthora  spp.,  Pleospora herbarum, Polyscytalum pustulans, Puccinia pittieriana, Pythium aphanidermatum, Pythium debaryanum, Pythium deliense, Pythium  spp.,  Pythium ultimum  var.  ultimum, Rhizoctonia solani, Rosellinia  sp.,  Sclerotinia sclerotiorum, Sclerotium bataticola, Sclerotium rolfsii, Septoria lycopersici  var.  malagutii, Spongospora subterranea  f. sp.  subterranea, Stemphylium herbarum, Synchytrium endobioticum, Thanatephorus cucumeris, Ulocladium atrum, Verticillium albo - atrum , and/or  Verticillium dahliae.    
     
     
         17 . A method according to  claim 1 , wherein the crop comprises cotton, and the method controls cotton diseases caused by  Alternaria alternata, Alternaria macrospora, Ascochyta gossypii, Ascochyta gossypii, Aspergillus flavus, Athelia rolfsii, Bipolaris spicifera, Botryosphaeria rhodina, Cercospora gossypina, Chalara elegans, Chalara elegans, Cochliobolus spicifer, Colletotrichum gossypii, Fusarium oxysporum  f. sp.  vasinfectum, Fusarium  spp.,  Glomerella gossypii, Lasiodiplodia theobromae, Leveillula taurica, Macrophomina phaseolina, Mycosphaerella areola, Mycosphaerella gossypina, Myrothecium roridum, Nematospora  spp.,  Nigrospora oryzae, Oidiopsis gossypii, Oidiopsis sicula, Phakopsora gossypii, Phoma exigua, Phymatotrichopsis omnivora, Phytophthora  spp.,  Puccinia cacabata, Puccinia schedonnardi, Pythium  spp.,  Ramularia gossypii, Rhizoctonia solani, Salmonia malachrae, Sclerotium rolfsii, Stemphylium solani, Thanatephorus cucumeris, Thielaviopsis basicola , and/or  Verticillium dahliae.    
     
     
         18 . The method according to  claim 1 , wherein the weight ratio of A:B is from 20:1 to 1:20. 
     
     
         19 . The method according to  claim 1 , wherein the weight ratio of A:B is from 10:1 to 1:10. 
     
     
         20 . The method according to  claim 1 , wherein the combination is synergistic and the weight ratio of A:B is from 20:1 to 1:20 and wherein the sole active ingredients in the combination are prothioconazole and fluxapyroxad.