Table 2.
Variants of treated maize seeds. Variant 4 (denoted in italics) refers to the treatment of row application with loaded granules. a.s. = active substance, n. d. = not determined.
| Variant | cultivar | Pesticide product | Neonicotinoid |
a.s. per seed |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| a.s. | Application rate, g ha-1 | Nominal | Measured | |||
| µg seed-1 | ||||||
| 1 | Amadeo | Maxim XLa | None | – | – | n. d. |
| 2 | Amadeo | Maxim XLb | None | – | – | n. d. |
| 3 | Ronaldinio | Poncho +Maxim XLa | Clothianidin | 50 | 500 | 545 |
| 4 | Ronaldinio | Santana +Maxim XLa | Clothianidin | 50 | 700c | 666c |
| 5 | Amadeo | Poncho +Maxim XLa | Clothianidin | 50 | 500 | 514 |
| 6 | Amadeo | Poncho +Maxim XLb | Clothianidin | 25 | 250 | 245 |
| 7 | Ronaldinio | Maxim XLa | None | – | – | n. d. |
| 8 | Amadeo | Cruiser +Maxim XLa | Thiamethoxam | 50 | 500 | 547 |
| 9 | Amadeo | Cruiser +Maxim XLb | Thiamethoxam | 25 | 250 | 229 |
| 10 | Amadeo | Gaucho +Maxim XLa | Imidacloprid | 50 | 500 | 501 |
| 11 | Amadeo | Gaucho +Maxim XLb | Imidacloprid | 25 | 250 | 264 |
| 12 | Amadeo | Force Zea + Maxim XLb | Thiamethoxam | 25 | 350 | 227 |
a
Maxim XL applied with 0.0125 l/seed unit,
b
Maxim XL applied with 0.00625 l/seed unit,
c
µg a. s. per 100 mg granules