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ranged from 10.8° ± 7.3° to 31.3° ± 21.3° (Table 1). Wheat leaves are not vertically oriented to the plant axis. TAs provide information on dropletadhesion on such inclined surfaces. For wheat leaves, we could not find any comparative values for TAs in the literature. In the context of active ingredient
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hairs on the leaves. Agnique® SBO10 and the nonionic surfactant XP ED 75 increased the dropletadhesion and caused an increase of the TA from 20.9° to 85° and 90°, respectively. Scanning electron microscopy showed that surfactants with a hydrophilic–lipophilic balance value below 10 caused a size
reduction of the epicuticular wax structures and a change from Cassie–Baxter wetting to an intermediate wetting regime with an increase of dropletadhesion.
Keywords: dropletadhesion; epicuticular wax; Glycine max L; superhydrophobic; surfactants; Introduction
The cuticle, as the outermost layer of
roll off. Dropletadhesion can be improved by adding adjuvants, such as surfactants. Surfactants enhance the leaf surface wettability by reduction of the surface tension of applied liquids. Surfactants are amphiphilic molecules with a nonpolar, hydrophobic structural group together with a hydrophilic
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Figure 1:
SEM micrographs of the untreated surface of a cryo-fixed sample of Glycine max L. leaves (upper lea...