Glycoside-containing agricultural treatment composition

Abstract

This invention describes a composition of matter and a method of treating agricultural substrates in which an active ingredient selected from the group consisting of fungicides, bactericides, insecticides, insect repellents, herbicides and plant growth regulators and mixtures thereof is utilized in conjunction with an amount of a glycoside dispersing agent selected from the group consisting of fructoside, glucoside, mannoside, galactoside, taloside, guloside, alloside, altroside, idoside, arabinsode, xyloside, lyxoside and riboside and mixtures thereof which is sufficient to form an emulsion or dispersion of the active ingredient.

What is claimed is: 
     
       1. A composition of matter comprising an active ingredient selected from the group consisting of insecticides and insect repellents and an effective amount of a glycoside dispersing agent selected from the group consisting of fructoside, glucoside, mannoside, galactoside, taloside, guloside, alloside, altroside, idoside, arabinoside, xyloside, lyxoside and riboside and mixtures thereof in a sufficient amount to form an emulsion or dispersion of the active ingredient, said glyoside dispersing agent corresponding to the formula:   R(OG).sub.x     wherein R contains from 1 to 30 carbon atoms; O is an oxygen atom; x has an average value of from 1 to about 18; and G is the glycosyl portion of said glycoside dispersing agent.   
     
     
       2. The composition of claim 1 wherein R is an alkyl group containing from 1 to about 8 carbon atoms. 
     
     
       3. The composition of claim 2 wherein x averages from about 1.2 to about 4. 
     
     
       4. The composition of claim 3 wherein R is a 2-ethylhexyl radical. 
     
     
       5. The composition of claim 4 wherein G is glucose. 
     
     
       6. The composition of claim 3 wherein G is glucose. 
     
     
       7. The composition of claim 1 wherein the glucoside dispersing agent is 2-ethylhexyl monoglucoside. 
     
     
       8. The composition of claim 1 wherein R is an alkyl group containing from about 9 to about 18 carbon atoms. 
     
     
       9. The composition of claim 1 wherein G is glucoside. 
     
     
       10. The composition of claim 1 wherein x averages from about 1 to about 15. 
     
     
       11. The composition of claim 10 wherein x averages from about 1.2 to about 4. 
     
     
       12. The composition of claim 1 wherein R contains from about 1 to about 20 carbon atom. 
     
     
       13. The composition of claim 1 wherein R contains from about 1 to about 8 carbon atoms; G is glucose; and x is 1. 
     
     
       14. The composition of claim 1 wherein R is a branched alkyl moiety. 
     
     
       15. The composition of claim 1 wherein the active ingredient is present in the composition at from about 0.0001 percent to about 30 percent by weight. 
     
     
       16. The composition of claim 1 containing from about 20 percent to about 95 percent by weight of water. 
     
     
       17. The composition of claim 1 containing from about 0.1 percent to about 30 percent by weight of the glycoside. 
     
     
       18. A method of insecticidal or insect repellent treatment for an agricultural substrate comprising introducing to the substrate a sufficient amount to accomplish the treatment of a composition of matter comprising an active ingredient selected from the group consisting of insecticides and insect repellents and an effective amount of a glycoside dispersing agent selected from the group consisting of fructoside, glucoside, mannoside, galactoside, taloside, guloside, alloside, altroside, idoside, arabinoside, xyloside, lyxoside and riboside and mixtures thereof in a sufficient amount to form an emulsion or dispersion of the active ingredient, said glycoside dispersing agent corresponding to the formula   R(OG).sub.x     wherein R contains from 1 to 30 carbon atoms; O is an oxygen atom; x has an average value of from 1 to about 18; and G is the glycosyl portion of said glycoside dispersing agent.