This report estimates the global seed treatment market in terms of revenue.

The field received applications of four pesticides as three products including a seed treatment.

Chemical control measures have traditionally had little success, although a modern seed treatment shows promise.

There is a need for a systemic seed treatment.

Possible serious environmental implications of mercury seed treatments are discussed.

Early season infections can be minimized by the use of seed treatments.

Several fungicidal seed treatments are available and offer some protection against disease.

There are some resistant cultivars available, but no seed treatment exists.

Treating seeds with a registered seed treatment can help reduce early season infection.

The use of a recommended seed treatment containing metalaxyl will control the disease.

Effect of seed treatment and planting method on Tabasco pepper.

Imidacloprid, as a seed treatment, is also registered for suppression.

A hot water seed treatment should be used to reduce the number of bacteria present in infested seeds.

Dust free for seed treatment application and during drilling.

There are a number of seed treatments that will control this group of diseases.

Seed treatment is the most effective and safest way to apply colchicine.

The seed treatment involved has since been banned.

Cost of seed treatment for barley is about $3/acre.

Preplant seed treatment effects on growth and yield of chile pepper.

Drench or seed treatment; not very effective; little use.

Acid and heat seed treatments will not kill the virus within infected seeds.

Resistant cultivars and seed treatments are used to manage this disease.

Maxim-Apron seed treatment helps to reduce problems due to root rot.

Fungicide seed treatments should be used when soil conditions are cool and wet in the early spring.

Toxicity was linked to defective seed treatment, which generated dust.

In addition, seed dressings give several weeks of post-emergent protection.

Mercury compounds are not allowed as fungicides in seed dressings.

Chemical control with fungicidal seed dressings is another effective method of control.

Post emergence applications of insecticide (e.g. pyrethroid) and seed dressings are also used in some areas.

Poisoning incidents with seed dressings are still relatively frequent, especially in Europe where there is a heavy use of cholinesterase-inhibiting pesticides for this purpose.

It is available in dust, granules, seed dressings, wettable powder, and emulsifiable solution formulations.

Historically, seed dressings were one of the main sources of bird exposure to organochlorine and mercurial compounds.

Control measures may include crop rotation, the use of seed dressings, early sowing or planting, and the removal of infested plants.

Swedish scientists subsequently traced the decline in their country's population of seed-eating birds and their predators to the use of alkyl mercury seed dressings.

The use of the gamma isomer lindane was permitted in seed dressings and pharmaceuticals in Liechtenstein and Switzerland.

The decline coincided with the introduction of cyclodiene insecticides - aldrin, dieldrin and heptachlor - used as seed dressings in agriculture in 1956.

The form of diazinon varies widely as it can be in dusts, granules, liquids, concentrates, microencapsulations, wettable powders, and seed dressings.

Said Phil: 'At the time the key uses of mercury, apart from chlorine production, were in the manufacture of batteries, paints, seed dressings and electrical equipment.'

The possible loss of neonicitinoid seed dressings was a concern as was possible EU action that could see up to 40 fungicides removed from the farmer's armoury.

Apart from colony collapse disorder, losses outside the US have been attributed to causes including pesticide seed dressings, such as Clothianidin, Imidacloprid and Thiamethoxam.

Here I can only talk of the Netherlands, where I grew up. in my youth Buzzards were uncommon and declining, because of poisoning i.e. by seed dressings.

Restrictions were placed on the use of aldrin and dieldrin as seed dressings in 1962 and the use of dieldrin as a sheep dip was restricted in 1966.

In the UK, the use of cyclodienes as seed dressings for autumn-sown cereals was banned in 1975 and the levels of the chemicals present in the bird population began to fall.

Much of the association's early work was on organochlorine pesticides and this work helped to bring in a ban on the use of dieldrin, aldrin and heptachlor seed dressings in 1962.

Much of this decline again occurred in the late 1950s, when aldrin and dieldrin were introduced as seed dressings, and was almost certainly due to peregrines eating pigeons which had fed on the seed.

At one time confined to the south and east of the country, the stock dove spread as arable farming expanded in the 19th century; but the introduction of organo-chlorine seed dressings in the 1960s was a disaster.

Concentrated liquid pesticides applied as diluted sprays are perhaps the most versatile against pests of top growth, whereas soil pests are often treated with granules or dusts, the latter also used as seed dressings.

Relevant staff holds National Institute of Agricultural Botany qualifications in seed sampling and seed crop inspection and National Proficiency Testing Council certificates for the application of seed dressings.

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Canadian Wildlife Service scientists became aware of the effects of DDE, dieldrin, and mercury-containing seed dressings on Canadian wildlife, particularly predatory and fish-eating birds.

Other project areas include larval control with seed dressings, quantification of the yield losses on the major crops grown as part of the peanut cropping systems in both countries, and survey work to clarify distribution of the various pest species.