Editor’s Note: The formulation plays an essential role in achieving the successful delivery and biological activity of any plant protection product, while its development is facing a series of new challenges. Accordingly, AgroPages recently invited three key players: Syngenta, BASF Crop Protection and Arysta LifeScience to share their insights on the new challenges, key influencing factors and potential solutions of the agrochemical formulation development, as well as their innovation formulation technologies/products etc.
Editor’s Note: The formulation plays an essential role in achieving the successful delivery and biological activity of any plant protection product, while its development is facing a series of new challenges. Accordingly, AgroPages recently invited three key players: Syngenta, BASF Crop Protection and Arysta LifeScience to share their insights on the new challenges, key influencing factors and potential solutions of the agrochemical formulation development, as well as their innovation formulation technologies/products etc.
Q1. What are the new challenges facing agrochemical formulation development, potential solutions and future trends?
Syngenta: Resistance of pathogens or pests to chemical agents is not a new issue facing the agrochemical industry but it is one that remains a key challenge for agrochemical formulation development. With resistance comes the continued need for identification of new active ingredients and subsequently the need to formulate them into usable products. All the simple molecules have been discovered, so the pipeline of new compounds is trending to be increasingly complex — higher molecular weight, more diverse chemical functionality and multiple chiral centers are not uncommon. This subsequently imparts additional complexity on both manufacture of the active ingredient and in producing formulations that exhibit the desirable biology, application and shelf-life characteristics.
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