Method of improved pest control

摘要

The disclosure describes a method for improved plant pest control comprising contacting a plant or plant pest with a composition comprising an effective amount of a plant pesticide and an effective delivery enhancing amount of compound having the structural formula wherein R' is H or a lower alkyl group having 1-4 carbon atoms, m is 3-7, n is 0-17 and R is -CH3, where R'' is H or halogen, with the proviso that if m is 3 and R is CH3, then n is 5-17. Typical plant pesticides include insecticides, fungicides, herbicides, rodenticides, nematicides molluscicides and acaricides. The preferred penetration enhancing compound is 1-n-dodecylaza cycloheptan-2-one.