Abstract: A method of controlling parasites in or on an animal comprising orally administering to the animal a parasiticidally effective, substantially non-emetic 1-arylpyrazole.

Abstract: The invention relates to a new process for the preparation of hydroxymethylthiobutyric acid by sulphuric hydrolysis of hydroxymethylthiobutyronitrile.

Abstract: A process for preparing a compound of the formula comprising reacting a compound of the formula wherein R3 is nitro or halo, or a salt thereof, with a compound of the formula R1SX (III) wherein X is hydrogen or alkali metal.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a DNA sequence, a 5′ regulatory element allowing the expression of a heterologous gene in a plant cell from a monocotyledonous plant, characterized in that it comprises, in the direction of transcription, a first DNA sequence, which is a functional fragment of the sequence of the maize H3C4 promoter, and a second DNA sequence, which is a functional fragment of the sequence of the first intron of rice actin. The invention also relates to a chimeric gene comprising the said DNA sequence and the plants transformed with the said gene.

Abstract: This invention relates to the control of weeds using (a) a urea herbicide and (b) a 4-benzoylisoxazole or a 2-cyano-1,3-dione herbicide.

Abstract: Novel 2-thiothiazolidin-5-one compounds useful as intermediates for fungicidal 2-imidazolin-5-ones are disclosed.

Abstract: The invention concerns a method for preparing &agr;-phenylalanine ester with substantially enantiomeric purity of formulae (I) and (II) wherein Alk represents a linear or branched C1-C6 alkyl radical, characterized in that it consists in contacting a mixture of &agr;-phenylalanine ester enantiomers with a lipase, a protease or an esterase.

Abstract: Process for the protection of a building that has already been built or is going to be built, whereby an effective amount of an insecticidally active compound is spread around or under the said building at discrete locations. The insecticide may be an arylpyrazole.

Abstract: A pesticidal composition and anti-parasitic treatment using the same, wherein the composition includes, in a combined pesticidally effective amount (a) carbaryl and (b) a compound having the formula wherein: R1 is CN; R2 is S(O)nR3, 4,5-dicyanoimidazol-2-yl or haloalkyl; R3 is alkyl or haloalkyl; R4 is hydrogen, halogen, NR5R6, S(O)mR7, C(O)R7, C(O)O—R7, alkyl, haloalkyl, OR8 or —N═C(R9)(R10); R5 and R6 independently are hydrogen, alkyl, haloalkyl, C(O)alkyl, alkoxycarbonyl or S(O)rCF3; or R5 and R6 together form a divalent alkylene radical which is optionally interrupted by one or two divalent heteroatoms selected from the group consisting of oxygen and sulfur; R7 is alkyl or haloalkyl; R8 is alkyl, haloalkyl or hydrogen; R9 is alkyl or hydrogen; R10 is phenyl or heteroaryl optionally substituted by one or more halogen, OH, —O-alkyl, —S-alkyl, cyano or alkyl; R11 and R12 are, independently of each other, hydrogen, halogen, CN or NO2; R13 is halogen, haloalkyl, h

Abstract: A process for preparing a compound of the formula: which comprises reacting a compound of the formula: wherein R3 is nitro or halo, with a compound of formula R1S—X wherein X is hydrogen or alkali metal.

Abstract: A process for preparing a compound of the formula: which comprises reacting a compound of the formula: wherein R1 is C1-6 straight- or branched-chain alkyl, with a compound of the formula: in an aprotic solvent in the presence of base.

Abstract: Process of protection of building already built or going to be built, whereby an effective amount of insecticidally active amount of compound is spread around or under the said building at discrete locations. The insecticide may be an arylpyrazole.

Abstract: The invention concerns a synergistic fungicide and/or bactericide composition comprising dodine and a derivative of the anilino-pyrimidine family. The invention also concerns a preventive or curative method for fighting against phytopathogenic fungi and/or bacteria using such a composition.

Abstract: Process of protection of building already built or going to be built, whereby an effective amount of insecticidally active amount of compound is spread around or under the said building at discrete locations. The insecticide may be an arylpyrazole.

Abstract: Process for the protection of a building that has already been built or is going to be built, whereby an effective amount of an insecticidally active compound is spread around or under the said building at discrete locations. The insecticide may be an arylpyrazole.

Abstract: The invention relates to 1-phenylpyrazole derivatives of formula (I): wherein R1, R2, R3, R4 and X are as defined in the description, and to their use as insecticides.

Abstract: Synergistic fungicidal composition comprising propamocarb and a derivative of phosphorous acid; and process for the curative or preventative control of phytopathogenic fungi by use of such a composition.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to isolated promoter sequences from seed-specific genes, such as KNAT411. When operably linked to either the coding sequence of a heterologous gene or a sequence complementary to a native plant gene, the subject promoters direct expression of the coding sequence or complementary sequence in a plant seed, including the early embryo. The promoter sequences are useful in expression cassettes and expression vectors for the transformation of plants. Also provided are methods of directing seed-specific expression of a gene or sequence complementary to a native plant gene by introducing into a plant cell an isolated nucleic acid comprising a subject promoter operably linked to said gene or complementary sequence. Methods for activating a site-specific recombination system in the early embryo of a seed by transforming a plant with an expression cassette comprising a subject promoter operably linked to a recombinase gene are also provided.

Abstract: Phenoxyacetic acid derivatives of the formula: wherein R1, R2, Xn and A are as defined herein, and a process for preparing the derivatives. The derivatives are used as herbicides.

Abstract: Novel 2-thio-thiazolidine-5-one compounds useful as intermediates for fungicidal 2-imidazoline-5-ones are disclosed.