The invention is an organic pesticide or fungicide made from components of hop extract by preparing stable aqueous emulsions of hop acids and other hop extract components. The hop acids and other hop extract components are suspended as stable, colloidal preparations in water, which can be sprayed on plants for pest control.
The invention is an organic pesticide made from components of hop extract by preparing stable aqueous emulsions of hop acids and other hop extract components. The hop acids and other hop extract components are suspended as stable, colloidal preparations in water, which can be sprayed on plants for pest control.
The invention is organic pesticides made from components of hop extract by preparing stable aqueous emulsions of hop acids and other hop extract components. The hop acids and other hop extract components are suspended as stable, colloidal preparations in water, which can be sprayed directly on plants for pest control.
Gene Probasco - Yakima WA, US Mark Bossert - Yakima WA, US David Hysert - Yakima WA, US
International Classification:
A01N065/00
US Classification:
424/778000
Abstract:
The invention is organic pesticides made from components of hop extract by preparing stable aqueous emulsions of hop acids and other hop extract components. The hop acids and other hop extract components are suspended as stable, colloidal preparations in water, which can be sprayed directly on plants for pest control.
William R. Poyner - Crossway Green, GB Geoffrey Smith - Brierly Hill, GB Keith T. Westwood - Bodenham, GB David W. Hysert - Yakima WA
Assignee:
John I. Haas, Inc. - Yakima WA
International Classification:
C07C 4567
US Classification:
568347
Abstract:
Tetrahydro-iso-. alpha. -acids ("THIAA") are prepared directly from iso-. alpha. -acids ("IAA") by hydrogenation. Free IAA are first dissolved in ethanol. The solution is then hydrogenated in the presence of a particular type of noble metal catalyst. Hydrogenation is controlled naturally by the reaction between the catalyst and the IAA so that the IAA will be selectively converted to THIAA without unacceptable perhydrogenation into other forms.