| abstract |
The invention comprises a method of combating phytopathogenic diseases on crop plants which comprises applying to the crop plants or the locus thereof being infested with said phytopathogenic disease an effective amount of a combination of a) a benzophenone of formula (I), wherein R1 is methoxy, methyl, hydroxy, acetoxy, or pivaloyloxy, R2 is C1-C4alkoxy or 2-halogenbenzyloxy, R3 is C1-C4alkoxy, R4 is C1-C4alkyl, halogen, or trifluoromethyl, and R5 is hydrogen, halogen, C1-C4alkoxy, trifluoromethyl or nitro; in association with b) the strobilurin of formula (II), and a composition comprising fungicidally effective amounts of components (I) and (II). |