Hetero Ring Is Six-membered Including Nitrogen Patents (Class 504/130)
  • Publication number: 20150018213
    Abstract: Described are preferred methods and compositions for controlling aquatic weeds that involve the use of an ALS-inhibiting herbicidal agent such as penoxsulam in combination with endothall. Preferred herbicidal combinations allow for enhanced control when treating a body of water to control a target weed population, such as hydrilla.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2014
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Inventors: Tyler J. Koschnick, David P. Tarver
  • Publication number: 20150018212
    Abstract: An aqueous liquid herbicide composition comprising a solution of at least one of 2,4-D and dicamba in the form of the monomethylamine salt and at least one of 2,4-D and dicamba in the form of the dimethylamine salt wherein the molar ratio of monomethylamine to dimethylamine is in the range of from 1:20 to 4:6.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2014
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Inventors: Chad Richard Ord SAYER, Graeme SUTTON, Aristos PANAYI
  • Publication number: 20150018208
    Abstract: Provided herein are synergistic herbicidal compositions containing (a) a compound of or an agriculturally acceptable salt or ester thereof and (b) microtubule inhibiting herbicide, e.g., dimethenamid, S-dimethenamid, and propyzamide, or derivatives thereof. The methods and compositions provided herein provide control of undesirable vegetation, e.g., in direct-seeded, water-seeded and transplanted rice, cereals, wheat, barley, oats, rye, sorghum, corn or maize, sugarcane, sunflower, oilseed rape, canola, sugar beet, soybean, cotton, pineapple, pastures, grasslands, rangelands, fallowland, turf, tree and vine orchards, aquatics, plantation crops, vegetables, industrial vegetation management and rights-of-way.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Inventors: Carla N. Yerkes, Richard K. Mann, Norbert M. Satchivi
  • Patent number: 8932986
    Abstract: Provided are technologies for controlling weeds, specifically, a herbicidal composition comprising as active ingredients pyrasulfotole, mefenpyr-diethyl, and one or more compounds selected from Group A has a herbicidal effect, Group A: a group consisting of flumioxazin, sulfentrazone, saflufenacil, oxyfluorfen, fomesafen, and a compound represented by formula (I)
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited
    Inventor: Hajime Ikeda
  • Patent number: 8927458
    Abstract: Triazolylpyridine ketones expressed by the following formula (1) and use thereof as herbicides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Bayer CropScience AG
    Inventors: Andreas Van Almsick, Shinichi Narabu, Yoshitaka Sato, Kei Domon, Koichi Araki, Shinichi Shirakura, Seiji Ukawa, Teruyuki Ichihara, Chieko Ueno
  • Publication number: 20150005165
    Abstract: The invention relates to a carboxylic acid derivatives of benzoheterocyclyl pyridines and benzoheterocyclyl pyrimidines of general formula (I) and to the use thereof as herbicides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2012
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Applicant: BAYER INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY GMBH
    Inventors: Michael Gerhard Hoffmann, Marco Bruenjes, Uwe Doeller, Hans-Joerg Dietrich, Isolde Haeuser-Hahn, Christopher Hugh Rosinger, Elmar Gatzweiler, Ines Heinemann
  • Publication number: 20150005168
    Abstract: The present invention refers to a method for controlling undesired vegetation at a plant cultivation site, the method comprising the steps of providing, at said site, a plant that comprises at least one nucleic acid comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding a wild-type hydroxyphenyl pyruvate dioxygenase or a mutated hydroxyphenyl pyruvate dioxygenase (mut-HPPD) which is resistant or tolerant to a coumarone-derivative herbicide and/or a nucleotide sequence encoding a wild-type homogentisate solanesyl transferase or a mutated homogentisate solanesyl transferase (mut-HST) which is resistant or tolerant to a coumarone-derivative herbicide, and applying to said site an effective amount of said herbicide. The invention further refers to plants comprising mut-HPPD, and methods of obtaining such plants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2012
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Johannes Hutzler, Stefan Tresch, Thomas Mietzner, Matthias Witschel, Jens Lerchl, Raphael Aponte, Liliana Parra Rapado, Jill Marie Paulik
  • Publication number: 20150005167
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel non-steroidal brassinosteroid mimetic derivatives, to processes and intermediates for preparing them, to plant growth regulator compositions comprising them and to methods of using them for controlling the growth of plants and/or promoting the germination of seeds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2012
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Applicants: Syngenta Limited, Syngenta Participations AG
    Inventors: Pierre Joseph Marcel Jung, Joerg Leipner, Mathilde Denise Lachia, Alain De Mesmaeker, Matthew Murdoch Woodhead McLachlan
  • Patent number: 8921268
    Abstract: Provided are technologies for controlling weeds, specifically, a herbicidal composition including as active ingredients isoxaflutole, cyprosulfamide, and one or more compounds selected from Group A has weed control effects, Group A: a group consisting of flumioxazin, sulfentrazone, saflufenacil, oxyfluorfen, fomesafen, and a compound represented by formula (I)
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited
    Inventor: Hajime Ikeda
  • Publication number: 20140378305
    Abstract: Compounds of formula wherein the substituents are as defined in claim 1, and related compositions, methods of use and processes of preparation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2014
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Applicant: SYNGENTA LIMITED
    Inventors: Christopher John Mathews, John Finney, James Nicholas Scutt, Louisa Robinson, John Stephen Delaney
  • Patent number: 8916499
    Abstract: Provided herein are synergistic herbicidal compositions containing (a) a compound of formula (I): or an agriculturally acceptable salt or ester thereof and (b) a protoporphyrinogen oxidase inhibitor, e.g., acifluorfen, azafeniden, bifenox, carfentrazone-ethyl-ethyl, flumioxazin, ipfencarbazone, oxadiargyl, oxadiazon, oxyfluorfen, pentoxazone, pyraclonil, pyraflufen-ethyl and saflufenacil, or a salt or ester thereof. The compositions and methods provided herein provide control of undesirable vegetation, e.g., in direct-seeded, water-seeded and transplanted rice, cereals, wheat, barley, oats, rye, sorghum, corn or maize, sugarcane, sunflower, oilseed rape, canola, sugar beet, soybean, cotton, pineapple, pastures, grasslands, rangelands, fallowland, turf, tree and vine orchards, aquatics, plantation crops, vegetables, industrial vegetation management (IVM) and rights-of-way (ROW).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: Dow AgroSciences, LLC.
    Inventors: Carla N. Yerkes, Richard K. Mann, Paul R. Schmitzer, Norbert M. Satchivi
  • Publication number: 20140371067
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of controlling weeds at a locus, said method comprising application to the locus of a weed controlling amount of a herbicidal composition comprising a compound of Formula (I), or an agronomically acceptable salt of said compounds wherein X, R1, R2, R4 and R5 are as defined herein. The invention further relates novel herbicidal compounds, to herbicidal compositions comprising said compounds and to their use for controlling weeds, in particular in crops of useful plants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Applicant: SYNGENTA LIMITED
    Inventors: Glynn Mitchell, Alison Clare Elliott
  • Publication number: 20140371070
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel non-steroidal brassinosteroid mimetic derivatives of formula (I), to processes and intermediates for preparing them, to plant growth regulator compositions comprising them and to methods of using them for controlling the growth of plants and/or promoting the germination of seeds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2012
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Applicant: Syngenta Participations AG
    Inventors: Pierre Joseph Marcel Jung, Joerg Leipner, Mathilde Denise Lachia, Alain De Mesmaeker
  • Patent number: 8912123
    Abstract: A safened herbicidal composition for use, for example, in wheat or barley, comprising a herbicidally effective amount of (a) a compound of formula (I): or an agriculturally acceptable salt or ester thereof and (b) a safener, for example, from the quinolinyloxyacetate family of chemicals, including, but not limited to, cloquintocet mexyl, provide weed control of undesirable vegetation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: Dow AgroSciences, LLC.
    Inventors: Joerg Becker, Thomas Schulz
  • Patent number: 8912120
    Abstract: Provided herein are herbicidal compositions containing and methods for controlling undesirable vegetation utilizing (a) a compound of formula (I): or an agriculturally acceptable salt or ester thereof and (b) a synthetic auxin herbicide, e.g., 2,4-D, aminocyclopyrachlor, aminopyralid, clomeprop-P, clopyralid, dicamba, diclorprop-P, fluoroxypyr methylheptyl ester (MHE), MCPA, picloram, quinclorac, triclopyr, and halauxifen-methyl(methyl 4-amino-3-chloro-6-(4-chloro-2-fluoro-3-methoxyphenyl)picolinate), or an agriculturally acceptable salt or ester thereof. The compositions and methods provided herein provide control of undesirable vegetation, e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: Dow AgroSciences, LLC.
    Inventors: Carla N. Yerkes, Richard K. Mann, Norbert M. Satchivi, Paul R. Schmitzer
  • Patent number: 8912125
    Abstract: Methods for controlling the growth of trifluralin-resistant annual ryegrass in cereals using dithiopyr are described. The methods include contacting the locus of the cereal, at planting or before weed emergence, with an herbicidally effective amount of dithiopyr. The dithiopyr can be applied to the soil and either incorporated into the soil at the time of planting the cereal or applied post-planting to the soil surface before the weeds have emerged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: Dow AgroSciences, LLC.
    Inventor: Gregory S. Wells
  • Patent number: 8906826
    Abstract: A synergistic herbicidal composition containing (a) a compound of formula (I): or an agriculturally acceptable salt or ester thereof and (b) an imidazolinone, including but not limited to imazethapyr ammonium, imazamox ammonium, imazapic ammonium, imazapyr isopropylamine salt, imazamethabenz-methyl and imazaquin isopropylamine salt, provide control of undesirable vegetation e.g., in direct-seeded rice, water-seeded rice, transplanted rice, cereals, wheat, barley, oats, rye, sorghum, corn or maize, sugarcane, sunflower, oilseed rape, canola, sugar beet, soybean, cotton, pineapple, vegetables, pastures, grasslands, rangelands, fallowland, turf, tree and vine orchards, aquatics, plantation crops, vegetables, industrial vegetation management (IVM) and rights of way (ROW).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Dow AgroSciences, LLC.
    Inventors: Carla N. Yerkes, Richard K. Mann, Paul R. Schmitzer, Norbert M. Satchivi
  • Patent number: 8906827
    Abstract: The invention relates to compositions and methods for controlling amaranth by application of flumioxazin and gibberellic acid to an area in need of weed control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Valent U.S.A., Corporation
    Inventors: Jimmy R. Etheridge, John Andrew Pawlak, II
  • Publication number: 20140352213
    Abstract: Described are preferred methods and compositions for controlling weeds in soil that involve the use of a bleaching herbicide such as fluridone in combination with at least one other additional selected herbicidal agent, which is preferably a PPO-inhibitor such as fomesafen or flumioxazin. Also described are safening effects of bleaching herbicidal agents such as fluridone on other herbicides, and of other herbicides on bleaching herbicidal agents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2014
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Inventors: Tyler J. Koschnick, Jessica Koczan
  • Publication number: 20140357487
    Abstract: The present invention refers to a method for controlling undesired vegetation at a plant cultivation site, the method comprising the steps of providing, at said site, a plant that comprises at least one nucleic acid comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding a wild-type hydroxyphenyl pyruvate dioxygenase or a mutated hydroxyphenyl pyruvate dioxygenase (mut-HPPD) which is resistant or tolerant to a coumarone-derivative herbicide and/or a nucleotide sequence encoding a wild-type homogentisate solanesyl transferase or a mutated homogentisate solanesyl transferase (mut-HST) which is resistant or tolerant to a coumarone-derivative herbicide, and applying to said site an effective amount of said herbicide. The invention further refers to plants comprising mut-HPPD, and methods of obtaining such plants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2012
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Johannes Hutzler, Stefan Tresch, Thomas Mietzner, Matthias Witschel, Jens Lerchl, Raphael Aponte, Liliana Parra Rapado, Jill Marie Paulik
  • Publication number: 20140357486
    Abstract: Compositions comprising a herbicidally effective amount of at least one Group I herbicide, a herbicidally effective amount of at least one Group F herbicide, and a seaweed extract and/or fish extract. The compositions are used for weed control, fertilizing, and soil conditioning. Provided the Group I and Group F herbicides and the seaweed extract or fish extract are organic with minimal or no inorganic content, the components do not interfere with one another in terms of their function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2014
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Applicant: D & J Akers Pty Ltd
    Inventor: Bradley Alan Akers
  • Patent number: 8901035
    Abstract: Provided herein are synergistic herbicidal compositions containing and methods for controlling undesirable vegetation utilizing (a) a compound of formula (I): or an agriculturally acceptable salt or ester thereof and (b) a cellulose biosynthesis inhibitor, e.g., indaziflam and isoxaben. The methods and compositions described herein provide control of undesirable vegetation, e.g., in direct-seeded, water-seeded and transplanted rice, cereals, wheat, barley, oats, rye, sorghum, corn or maize, sugarcane, sunflower, oilseed rape, canola, sugar beet, soybean, cotton, pineapple, pastures, grasslands, rangelands, fallowland, turf, tree and vine orchards, aquatics, plantation crops, vegetables, industrial vegetation management (IVM) or rights-of-way (ROW).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Dow AgroSciences, LLC.
    Inventors: Carla N. Yerkes, Richard K. Mann, Norbert M. Satchivi
  • Publication number: 20140342907
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for post-emergence selective weed control in turf sites by applying an herbicidal composition comprising sulfentrazone and quinclorac to a locus where weeds are present.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2014
    Publication date: November 20, 2014
    Inventors: James Walter, Frank Robert Walls, JR.
  • Publication number: 20140342906
    Abstract: Tetrazol-5-yl- and triazol-5-yl-aryl compounds of the general formula (I) as herbicides are described. In this formula (I), X, Z, W and R are radicals such as hydrogen, organic radicals such as alkyl, and other radicals such as halogen. A and B are N and CY. Q is cyanoalkylcarbonyl or isoxazolyl.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2013
    Publication date: November 20, 2014
    Inventors: Ralf Braun, Lothar Willms, Ines Heinemann, Isolde Haeuser-Hahn, Hansjoerg Dietrich, Elmar Gatzweiler, Christopher Hugh Rosinger
  • Patent number: 8889592
    Abstract: The present invention relates to boosting the action of crop protection compositions comprising in particular spiroheterocyclically substituted tetramic acid derivatives of the formula (I) by addition of ammonium or phosphonium salts and optionally penetrants, to the corresponding compositions, to processes for their preparation and to their use in crop protection as insecticides and/or acaricides and/or for preventing unwanted vegetation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Bayer CropScience AG
    Inventors: Reiner Fischer, Stefan Lehr, Olga Malsam, Rolf Pontzen, Elmar Gatzweiler, Rainer Sussmann
  • Patent number: 8889591
    Abstract: Provided herein are synergistic herbicidal compositions containing (a) a compound of formula (I): or an agriculturally acceptable salt or ester thereof and (b) bromobutide, daimuron, oxaziclomefone or pyributicarb, or an agriculturally acceptable salt thereof. The compositions and methods provide control of undesirable vegetation, e.g., in direct-seeded, water-seeded and transplanted rice, cereals, wheat, barley, oats, rye, sorghum, corn or maize, sugarcane, sunflower, oilseed rape, canola, sugar beet, soybean, cotton, pineapple, pastures, grasslands, rangelands, fallowland, turf, tree and vine orchards, aquatics, plantation crops, vegetables, industrial vegetation management (IVM) or rights of way (ROW).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Dow AgroSciences, LLC.
    Inventors: Carla N. Yerkes, Richard K. Mann
  • Publication number: 20140336051
    Abstract: A herbicidal composition comprising: a) a herbicide compound A, which is selected from the group of imidazolinones; and b) an adjuvant B, which is a surfactant selected from the groups b1 to b5: b1) a nonionic surfactant of the formula R1Xn and polyalkoxylated derivatives thereof, wherein R1 is selected from aliphatic or aromatic residues having at least eight carbon atoms; X is selected from hydroxy, —O—(C1-C6-alkyl), —O—(C3-C6-alkenyl), amine, amide, or ester; and n is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6; b2) an anionic surfactant of the formula R1Yn, wherein R1 is selected from aliphatic or aromatic residues having at least eight carbon atoms; Y is selected from carboxylate, sulfonate, sulfate, phosphate, or phosphonate; and n is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6; b3) a cationic surfactant; b4) a zwitterionic surfactant; or b5) a polymeric surfactant; and wherein the weight ratio of the herbicide compound A and the adjuvant B is from 2:1 to 1:60; and the use of the said compositions for controlling undesirable vegetation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2012
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Applicant: BASF Agrochemical Products B.V.
    Inventors: Gerhard Schnabel, Matthias Pfenning, Joerg Polzin, Hagen Bremer
  • Patent number: 8883682
    Abstract: Provided herein are herbicidal composition containing and method of controlling undesirable vegetation utilizing (a) a compound of formula (I): or an agriculturally acceptable salt or ester thereof and (b) an auxin transport inhibitor. Exemplary auxin transport inhibitors include chlorflurenol-methyl, diflufenzopyr, flurenol and naptalam, or an agriculturally acceptable derivative thereof. The methods and compositions described herein provide control of undesirable vegetation, e.g., in rice, cereals, wheat, barley, oats, rye, sorghum, corn or maize, sugarcane, sunflower, oilseed rape, canola, sugar beet, soybean, cotton, pineapple, vegetables, pastures, grasslands, rangelands, fallowland, turf, tree and vine orchards, aquatics, plantation crop, industrial vegetation management (IVM) or rights of way (ROW).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Dow AgroSciences, LLC.
    Inventors: Carla N. Yerkes, Richard K. Mann
  • Patent number: 8883180
    Abstract: The invention relates to active compound combinations, in particular a fungicidal and/or insecticidal composition, comprising Isotianil (3,4-dichloro-N-(2-cyanophenyl)-5-isothiazolecarboxamide) and at least one further insecticide of the anthranilamide group and optionally one further insecticide of the neonicotinoids. Moreover, the invention relates to a method for curatively or preventively controlling the phytopathogenic fungi and/or microorganisms and/or pests of plants or crops, to the use of a combination according to the invention for the treatment of seed, to a method for protecting a seed and not at least to the treated seed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Bayer Intellectual Property GmbH
    Inventors: Lutz Assmann, Ulrike Wachendorff-Neumann, Peter Dahmen, Heike Hungenberg, Wolfgang Thielert
  • Publication number: 20140323303
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a compound of formula (I): wherein: X is methyl or chlorine; R1 is methyl or chlorine; R2 is hydrogen, methyl, ethyl, n-propyl, cyclopropyl, vinyl, ethynyl, fluorine, chlorine, bromine, methoxy, ethoxy or fluoromethoxy; and G, R3, R4, R5 and R6 are as defined herein; wherein the compound of formula (I) is optionally present as an agrochemically acceptable salt thereof. These compounds are suitable for use as herbicides. The invention therefore also relates to a method of controlling weeds, especially grassy monocotyledonous weeds, in crops of useful plants, comprising applying a compound of formula (I), or a herbicidal composition comprising such a compound, to the plants or to the locus thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2012
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Applicants: Syngenta Participations AG, Syngenta Limited
    Inventors: Alaric James Avery, Mangala Mahadev Phadte, James Nicholas Scutt, John Benjamin Taylor, Russell Colin Viner, Jeffrey Steven Wailes
  • Publication number: 20140323298
    Abstract: An herbicidal composition containing (a) oxyfluorfen and (b) haloxyfop or an agriculturally acceptable ester or salt thereof provides control of undesirable vegetation, e.g., in crops, including but not limited to direct-seeded, water-seeded and transplanted rice, wheat, barley, oats, rye, sorghum, corn/maize, cotton, pastures, grasslands, rangelands, fallowland, turf, tree and vine orchards, including, but not limited to, citrus, grapes and tree nuts, aquatics, vegetables (e.g., onions, shallots, peppers, tomatoes, artichokes, cole crops, guava, papaya and strawberries), industrial vegetation management, deciduous trees, conifers, perennial crops and plantation crops (including, but not limited to, coffee and palm oil) and rights of way.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2013
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Applicant: Dow AgroSciences LLC
    Inventors: Daniel Fernando Ovalle Orjuela, Orlando Aguilar, Paola Luciana Mautong Plaza, Richard K. Mann, Roger E. Gast
  • Patent number: 8871681
    Abstract: Provided herein are synergistic herbicidal compositions comprising (a) a compound of formula (I): or an agriculturally acceptable salt or ester thereof and (b) a sulfonylurea e.g., amidosulfuron, azimsulfuron, bensulfuron-methyl, chlorsulfuron, cyclosulfamuron, ethametsulfuron-methyl, ethoxysulfuron, flazasulfuron, flucetosulfuron, flupyrsulfuron-methyl sodium, foramsulfuron, imazosulfuron, iofensulfuron, iodosulfuron-methyl sodium, mesosulfuron-methyl, metsulfuron-methyl, nicosulfuron, orthosulfamuron, primisulfuron-methyl, propyrisulfuron, prosulfuron, pyrimisulfan, pyroxasulfone, rimsulfuron, sulfometuron-methyl, sulfosulfuron, thifensulfuron-methyl, triafamone, triasulfuron, tribenuron-methyl or trifloxysulfuron-sodium, or an agriculturally acceptable salt or ester thereof. The compositions and methods provide control of undesirable vegetation, e.g., in crops and other settings, e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Dow AgroSciences LLC
    Inventors: Richard K. Mann, Carla N. Yerkes, Norbert M. Satchivi, Paul R. Schmitzer
  • Patent number: 8871680
    Abstract: A synergistic herbicidal composition containing (a) a compound of formula (I): or an agriculturally acceptable salt or ester thereof and (b) dimethoxy-pyrimidine acids, including but not limited to bispyribac-sodium, pyribenzoxim, pyriftalid, pyriminobac-methyl and pyrimisulfan provide synergistic weed control of undesirable vegetation e.g., in direct-seeded, water-seeded, and transplanted rice, cereals, wheat, barley, oats, rye, sorghum, corn or maize, sugarcane, sunflower, oilseed rape, canola, sugar beet, soybean, cotton, pineapple, vegetables, pastures, grasslands, rangelands, fallowland, turf, tree and vine orchards, aquatics, plantation crops, industrial vegetation management (IVM) or rights of way (ROW).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Dow AgroSciences, LLC.
    Inventors: Carla N. Yerkes, Richard K. Mann
  • Patent number: 8865625
    Abstract: A herbicidal concentrate composition comprising a mixture of the monomethylamine and dimethylamine salts of at least one picolinic acid herbicide of formula (Ia): wherein X2 is selected from hydrogen and amino.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Nufarm Australia Limited
    Inventors: Aristos Panayi, Chad Richard Ord Sayer
  • Patent number: 8865626
    Abstract: Synergistic and crop-plant-compatible herbicidal compositions comprising herbicides from the group of the benzoylpyrazoles Herbicidal compositions comprising A) a compound from the group of the benzoylpyrazoles, B) at least one further herbicide and C) optionally at least one safener are described as herbicides effective against monocotyledonous and/or dicotyledonous harmful plants. Compared to the herbicides applied individually, these compositions have superior activity, and at the same time they are highly compatible with crop plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Bayer Cropscience AG
    Inventors: Nick Duncan, Allan Eadie
  • Publication number: 20140309110
    Abstract: Herbicidally active compositions, which comprise 4-amino-3,6-dichloropyridine-2-carboxylic acid (common name: aminopyralid), 2-[(RS)-4-isopropyl-4-methyl-5-oxo-2-imidazolin-2-yl]-5-methoxymethylnicotinic acid (common name: imazamox) and at least one herbicide B from the group of the lipid biosynthesis inhibitors, acetohydroxyacid synthase inhibitors, carotenoid biosynthesis inhibitors, auxin herbicides, mitosis inhibitors, protoporphyrinogen IX oxidase inhibitors, growth substances, and a variety of other herbicides selected from aziprotryn, barban, bensulide, benzthiazuron, benzofluor, buminafos, buthidazole, buturon, cafenstrole, chlorbufam, xhlorofenprop-methyl, chloroxuron, cinmethylin, cumyluron, cycluron, cyprazine, cyprazole, dibenzyluron, dipropetryn, dymron, eglinazin-ethyl, endothall, ethiozin, flucabazone, fluorbentranil, flupoxam, isocarbamid, isopropalin, karbutilate, mefluidide, monuron, napropamide, napropanilide, nitralin, oxaciclomefone, phenisopham, piperophos, procyazine, profluralin, pyri
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2014
    Publication date: October 16, 2014
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Yannick GRIVEAU, Hagen BREMER, Matthias PFENNING
  • Publication number: 20140309111
    Abstract: Herbicidally active compositions, which comprise 4-amino-3,6-dichloropyridine-2-carboxylic acid (common name: aminopyralid), 2-[(RS)-4-isopropyl-4-methyl-5-oxo-2-imidazolin-2-yl]-5-methoxymethylnicotinic acid (common name: imazamox) and at least one herbicide B from the group of the lipid biosynthesis inhibitors, acetohydroxyacid synthase inhibitors, carotenoid biosynthesis inhibitors, auxin herbicides, mitosis inhibitors, protoporphyrinogen IX oxidase inhibitors, growth substances, and a variety of other herbicides selected from aziprotryn, barban, bensulide, benzthiazuron, benzofluor, buminafos, buthidazole, buturon, cafenstrole, chlorbufam, xhlorofenprop-methyl, chloroxuron, cinmethylin, cumyluron, cycluron, cyprazine, cyprazole, dibenzyluron, dipropetryn, dymron, eglinazin-ethyl, endothall, ethiozin, flucabazone, fluorbentranil, flupoxam, isocarbamid, isopropalin, karbutilate, mefluidide, monuron, napropamide, napropanilide, nitralin, oxaciclomefone, phenisopham, piperophos, procyazine, profluralin, pyri
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2014
    Publication date: October 16, 2014
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Yannick GRIVEAU, Hagen BREMER, Matthias PFENNING
  • Patent number: 8859463
    Abstract: A control method against noxious organisms in a field of soybean or corn, which comprises applying one or more PPO-inhibiting compounds selected from the group consisting of flumioxazin, sulfentrazone, saflufenacil, oxyfluorfen and 3-(4-chloro-6-fluoro-2-trifluoromethylbenzimidazol-7-yl)-1-methyl-6-trifluoromethyl-2,4-(1H,3H)pyrimidinedione to soil or weeds in the field where soybean or corn seeds have been sown or where said seeds are to be sown, said seeds being treated with one or more compounds selected from the group consisting of neonicotinoid compounds, azole compounds, strobilurin compounds and metalaxyl compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited
    Inventors: Hajime Ikeda, Atsushi Iwata
  • Publication number: 20140302987
    Abstract: Use of substituted isoquinolinones, isoquinolinediones, isoquinolinetriones and dihydroisoquinolinones of the general formula (I) or their respective salts where the radicals in the general formula (I) correspond to the definitions given in the description, for enhancing stress tolerance in plants to abiotic stress, for strengthening plant growth and/or for increasing plant yield, and selected processes for preparing the compounds mentioned above.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2012
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Applicant: BAYER INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY GmbH
    Inventors: Jens Frackenpohl, Hans-Joachim Zeiss, Ines Heinemann, Lothar Willms, Thomas Müller, Marco Busch, Pascal Von Koskull-Döering, Christopher Hugh Rosinger, Jan Dittgen, Martin Jeffrey Hills
  • Publication number: 20140296069
    Abstract: 5-phenyl-substituted N-(tetrazol-5-yl)- and N-(triazol-5-yl)arylcarboxamides of the general formula (I) are described as herbicides. In this formula (I), W, X, Y, Z and R are radicals such as hydrogen, organic radicals such as alkyl, and other radicals such as halogen. A and B are N and CY.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2012
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Inventors: Ralf Braun, Hartmut Ahrens, Andreas Van Almsick, Stefan Lehr, Isolde Häuser-Hahn, Hansjörg Dietrich, Elmar Gatzweiler, Ines Heinemann, Christopher Hugh Rosinger
  • Patent number: 8846570
    Abstract: Provided herein are synergistic herbicidal compositions containing (a) a compound of formula (I): or an agriculturally acceptable salt or ester thereof and (b) microtubule inhibiting herbicide, e.g., dimethenamid, dithiopyr, oryzalin, pendimethalin, propyzamide, and thiazopyr, or derivative thereof. The methods and compositions provided herein provide control of undesirable vegetation, e.g., in direct-seeded, water-seeded and transplanted rice, cereals, wheat, barley, oats, rye, sorghum, corn or maize, sugarcane, sunflower, oilseed rape, canola, sugar beet, soybean, cotton, pineapple, pastures, grasslands, rangelands, fallowland, turf, tree and vine orchards, aquatics, plantation crops, vegetables, industrial vegetation management (IVM) and rights-of-way (ROW).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Dow AgroSciences, LLC.
    Inventors: Carla N. Yerkes, Richard K. Mann
  • Patent number: 8846571
    Abstract: [OBJECT] To provide a novel pesticide. [MEANS OF ACCOMPLISHING THE OBJECT] The present invention provides a herbicidal composition which comprises as active ingredients (a) a herbicidal benzoylpyrazole compound represented by the formula (I) or its salt: wherein R1 is alkyl or cycloalkyl, R2 is a hydrogen atom or alkyl, R3 is alkyl, R4 is alkyl, haloalkyl or the like, R5 is a hydrogen atom, alkyl or the like, R6 is haloalkyl, halogen or the like, and A is alkylene substituted by alkyl, and (b) other herbicidal compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Ishihara Sangyo Kaisha, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kikugawa, Souichiro Nagayama, Makiko Sano
  • Patent number: 8841233
    Abstract: Provided herein are synergistic herbicidal compositions containing and methods of controlling undesirable vegetation utilizing (a) a compound of formula (I): or an agriculturally acceptable salt or ester thereof and (b) HPPD inhibitors e.g., benzobicyclon, benzofenap, isoxaflutole, mesotrione, pyrazolynate, sulcotrione, and tefuryltrione, or a salt or ester thereof. The compositions and methods provided herein provide control of undesirable vegetation, e.g., in direct-seeded rice, water-seeded rice, transplanted rice, cereals, wheat, barley, oats, rye, sorghum, corn or maize, sugarcane, sunflower, oilseed rape, canola, sugar beet, soybean, cotton, pineapple, vegetables, pastures, grasslands, rangelands, fallowland, turf, tree and vine orchards, plantation crops, aquatics or industrial vegetation management (IVM) or rights-of-way (ROW).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Dow Agrosciences LLC
    Inventors: Carla N. Yerkes, Richard K. Mann
  • Patent number: 8841234
    Abstract: Provided herein are synergistic herbicidal compositions containing (a) a compound of formula (I): or an agriculturally acceptable salt or ester thereof and (b) fungicides, including but not limited to, azoxystrobin, carbendazim, difenoconazole, flutolanil, hexaconazole, iprobenfos, isoprothiolane, isotianil, kasugamycin, mancozeb, myclobutanil, phthalide, probenazole, propiconazole, pyroquilon, tebuconazole, thifluzamide, tricyclazole, trifloxystrobin, validamycin, and a compound of formula (II) The compositions and methods provided herein control undesirable vegetation, e.g., in direct-seeded, water-seeded and transplanted rice, cereals, wheat, barley, oats, rye, sorghum, corn/maize, sugarcane, sunflower, oilseed rape, canola, sugar beet, soybean, cotton, pineapple, pastures, grasslands, rangelands, fallowland, turf, tree and vine orchards, plantation crops, vegetables, industrial vegetation management (IVM) and rights of way (ROW).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Dow AgroSciences, LLC.
    Inventors: Richard K. Mann, Carla N. Yerkes
  • Publication number: 20140274701
    Abstract: Novel 4-amino-6-(heterocyclic)picolinic acids and their derivatives and 6-amino-2-(heterocyclic)pyrimidine-4-carboxylates and their derivatives are useful to control undesirable vegetation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: Dow AgroSciences LLC
    Inventors: Joseph D. Eckelbarger, Jeffrey B. Epp, Lindsey G. Fischer, Christian T. Lowe, Jeff Petkus, Joshua Roth, Norbert M. Satchivi, Paul R. Schmitzer, Thomas L. Siddall
  • Publication number: 20140274697
    Abstract: Provided herein are synergistic herbicidal compositions containing (a) a compound of formula (I): or an agriculturally acceptable salt or ester thereof and (b) fungicides, including but not limited to, azoxystrobin, carbendazim, difenoconazole, flutolanil, hexaconazole, iprobenfos, isoprothiolane, isotianil, kasugamycin, mancozeb, myclobutanil, phthalide, probenazole, propiconazole, pyroquilon, tebuconazole, thifluzamide, tricyclazole, trifloxystrobin, validamycin, and a compound of formula (II) The compositions and methods provided herein control undesirable vegetation, e.g., in direct-seeded, water-seeded and transplanted rice, cereals, wheat, barley, oats, rye, sorghum, corn/maize, sugarcane, sunflower, oilseed rape, canola, sugar beet, soybean, cotton, pineapple, pastures, grasslands, rangelands, fallowland, turf, tree and vine orchards, plantation crops, vegetables, industrial vegetation management (IVM) and rights of way (ROW).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Inventor: DOW AGROSCIENCES LLC
  • Publication number: 20140274696
    Abstract: Provided herein are 4-amino-6-(4-substituted-phenyl)-picolinic acids and their derivatives, and 6-amino-2-(4-substituted-phenyl)-pyrimidine-4-carboxylic acids and their derivatives, compositions comprising the acids and their derivatives, and methods of use thereof as herbicides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: DOW AGROSCIENCES LLC
    Inventors: Joseph D. ECKELBARGER, Jeffrey B. Epp, Lindsey G. Fischer, Natalie C. Giampietro, Nicholas M. Irvine, Jeremy Kister, William C. Lo, Christian T. Lowe, Jeffrey Petkus, Joshua Roth, Norbert M. Satchivi, Paul R. Schmitzer, Thomas L. Siddall, Carla N. Yerkes
  • Publication number: 20140274695
    Abstract: 4-Amino-6-(heterocyclic)picolinic acids and their derivatives; 6-amino-2-(heterocyclic)pyrimidine-4-carboxylates and their derivatives; and methods of using the same as herbicides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: Dow AgroSciences LLC
    Inventors: Joseph D. Eckelbarger, Jeffrey B. Epp, Stephen Craig Fields, Lindsey G. Fischer, Natalie C. Giampietro, Katherine A. Guenthenspberger, Christian T. Lowe, Jeff Petkus, Joshua Roth, Norbert M. Satchivi, Paul R. Schmitzer, Thomas L. Siddall, Nick X. Wang
  • Publication number: 20140274708
    Abstract: Basal application of an herbicidal composition comprising triclopyr butoxyethyl ester, picloram-isooctyl ester, and glycerine controls undesirable woody vegetation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: Dow AgroSciences LLC
    Inventors: Neivaldo Tunes Caceres, Reginaldo Farias Souza
  • Publication number: 20140274702
    Abstract: Novel 4-amino-6-(heterocyclic)picolinic acids and their derivatives and 6-amino-2-(heterocyclic)pyrimidine-4-carboxylates and their derivatives are useful to control undesirable vegetation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: Dow AgroSciences, LLC
    Inventors: Joseph D. Eckelbarger, Thomas L. Siddall, Norbert M. Satchivi, Paul R. Schmitzer