Patent ID: 8347551
Filing Date: 2013-01-08
Classification: A01N

Abstract:
1. A method of protecting a germinating seed comprising: placing, individually and next to one another, a germinating seed and a set of one to four non-germinating seeds, wherein said set of non-germinating seed are treated with one or more pesticides selected from acaricides, bactericides, fungicides, insecticides, mollusicides, and rodenticides and said germinating seed is treated with one or more pesticides selected from acaricides, bactericides, fungicides, insecticides, mollusicides, and rodenticides, wherein said set of non-germinating seed and germinating seed are treated independently of one another and wherein the amount of pesticide is such that the germinating seed and the set of non-germinating seed together contain an effective dose of the one or more pesticides.