Patent ID: 8703750

Claim:
A method for stimulating the natural defense systems of plants and inducing resistance in agricultural plants to phytopathogenic fungi comprising applying to said agricultural plants a mixture comprising two or more compounds where at least one compound is selected from i) and one compound is selected from ii): i) at least a salicylic acid derivative of formula (I): wherein: R 1 represents a copper +2 cation; R 2 represents a hydrogen atom or an COR′ acyl group; R′ represents a hydrogen atom, a C 1 -C 6 alkyl group, or a phenyl group; n is a number between 0 and 2; R 3 is the same or different when n is 2 and R 3 represents fluorine, chlorine, bromine or iodine; a C 1 -C 6 alkyl group, a C 1 -C 6 alkoxyl group, a C 1 -C 6 thioalkyl group, a C 2 -C 7 carbo-alkoxyl group, or a cyano group; X and Y are the same or different and are oxygen; and ii) titanium dioxide.