Abstract: Method for controlling insect pests, pathogenic diseases, and pathogenic nematodes comprising the step of concurrent administration to the locus of an effective amount of iodized lipids or iodine complexes was disclosed.

Abstract: A composition and method for controlling diseases and pests on plants is provided. Specifically, the composition provides that polar glycerides selected from the group comprising monoglycerides, diglycerides, phospholipids, lysophospholipids, glycolipids, lysoglycolipids, or their derivatives control certain diseases or insect pests on plants.

Abstract: A composition and method for early bloom thinning of fruit trees and controlling cracking, wherein the composition provides that glyceride type of lipids are effective compounds for bloom thinning of fruit trees and controlling cracking of fruits and the method comprises making an aqueous emulsion with these lipids as active ingredients and spraying the emulsion on fruit trees at appropriate phenophases for blossom thinning or fruit cracking control. The composition further provides that copper compounds act as blossom thinning agents but cause phytotoxicity to trees and a mixture of the said lipid emulsion and copper compounds displays higher thinning effect than each applied alone and does not cause phytotoxicity to trees.