Patent ID: 8778371

Claim:
A method of preparing an aqueous pesticide composition for administration to a plant comprising combining: (a) a phytotoxicity-inducing amount of a pesticide selected from sodium aluminofluorides, propiconazoles, mancozebs, manebs, zirams, chlorothalonils, copper hydroxides, myclobutanils, fenbuconazoles, captans, carbaryls, cartaps, carbofurans, tebufenozides, dicofols, dinocaps, propanils, oxyfluorfens, chlorinated nitriles, triazoles, aralkyl triazoles, triazole anilides, benzamides, alkyl benzamides, diphenyl ethers, pyridine carboxylic acids, chloroanilines, organophosphates, organosulfurs, carbamates, botanicals, synthetic pyrethroids, antibiotics, inorganic compounds, EBDT, dicarboximide, benzimidazoles, phenylamines, imides, strobylurines, phosphonic glycine salt, and mixtures thereof; and (b) a phytotoxicity-reducing component comprising: (i) about 0.1% to about 20% w/w of an assimilable carbon-skeleton energy component comprising corn syrup; (ii) about 0.0001% to about 0.5% w/w of a water soluble macronutrient component comprising N, K, Ca and Mg; (iii) about 0.00000001% to about 0.1% w/w of a water soluble micronutrient component comprising Zn, Fe and Mn; (iv) about 0.0000001% to about 0.1% w/w of a vitamin/cofactor component comprising three or more vitamin/cofactors selected from the group consisting of pyridoxine, cyanocobalamin, thiamine, pyrophosphate, riboflavin, biotin, pantothenic acid, phosphatidylcholine, inositol, para-aminobenzoic acid (PABA), nicotinic acid and folic acid; and (v) an organosilicone surfactant; with an amount of water sufficient to produce the aqueous pesticide composition; wherein components (i), (ii), (iii), (iv) and (v) are present in the aqueous pesticide composition in amounts sufficient to reduce pesticide-induced phytotoxicity of the plant.