Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for increasing the dry biomass of a plant by treating a plant, a part of the plant, the locus where the plant is growing or is intended to grow and/or the plant propagules with at least one compound of formula I as described in the claims and description. The invention also relates to a method for increasing the biomass of the fruit of a plant, the fruit containing 5 to 25% by weight of residual moisture, based on the total weight of the fruit, by treating a plant, a part of the plant, the locus where the plant is growing or is intended to grow and/or the plant propagules with at least one compound of formula I as described below. The invention further relates to a method for increasing the carbon dioxide sequestration from the atmosphere by treating a plant, a part of the plant, the locus where the plant is growing or is intended to grow and/or the plant propagules with at least one compound of formula I as described in the claims and description.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a membrane-electrode assembly comprising at least one membrane, at least two electrode layers and at least one barrier layer, wherein the at least one barrier layer comprises at least one catalytically active species and/or at least one adsorbent material and the barrier layer is electronically nonconductive when a catalytically active species is present, the use of such a barrier layer in a membrane-electrode assembly and in a fuel cell, and also a gas-diffusion electrode and a fuel cell comprising such a membrane-electrode assembly.

Abstract: The invention relates to polyphenylenepolymethylene polyisocyanates (B) comprising (B1) the 2-ring product of polyphenylenepolymethylene polyisocyanate (B2) the 3-ring product of polyphenylenepolymethylene polyisocyanate (B3) the 4-ring product of polyphenylenepolymethylene polyisocyanate (B4) the 5-ring product of polyphenylenepolymethylene polyisocyanate, wherein the constituents (B2), (B3) and (B4) are, at a content of (B1) of up to 55% by weight, based on the weight of (B), present in a weight ratio of (B2):(B3):(B4) of 8±4:3.5±1.8:1.2±0.9 and the component (B) comprises at least 85% by weight, based on the weight of the component (B), of the constituents (B1), (B2), (B3) and (B4).

Abstract: The present invention relates generally to the field of molecular biology and concerns a method for enhancing various economically important yield-related traits in plants. More specifically, the present invention concerns a method for enhancing yield-related traits in plants by modulating expression in a plant of a nucleic acid encoding a Yield Enhancing Protein (YEP). The YEP is selected from a Vacuolar Processing Enzyme (VPE) or a CCA1-like polypeptide or a SAP-like polypeptide or a Seed Yield Promoting Factor 1 (SYPF1) polypeptide or a Ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (RuBisCO) activase (RCA) polypeptide. The present invention also concerns plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding such a YEP, which plants have enhanced yield-related traits relative to control plants. The invention also provides hitherto unknown YEP-encoding nucleic acids, and constructs comprising the same, useful in performing the methods of the invention.

Abstract: A method for the emulsion polymerization of one or more olefins by reacting a ligand of general formulae Ia and Ib or a mixture of at least two ligands Ia or Ib, wherein R respectively represents one or several of the following radicals; hydrogen, halogen, nitrile, C1-C12-alkyl groups, C1-C12-alkoxy groups, C7-C13-aralkyl groups, C6-C14-aryl groups, and wherein identical or different compounds of general formulae Ia and Ib can, optionally, be concatenated by one or several bridges, with a phosphine compound PR3? and a metal compound of general formula M(L2)2 or M(L2)2 (L1)z, wherein the variables are defined as follows: M is a transition metal of groups 7-10 in the periodic system of the elements; L1 represents phosphanes (R5)xPH3-x or amines (R5)xNH3-x with identical or different radicals R5, ether (R5)2O, H2O, alkohols (R5)OH, pyridine, pyridine derivatives of formula C5H5-x(R5)xN, CO, C1-C12-alkylnitriles, C6-C14-arylnitriles or ethylenically unsaturated double bond systems, wherein x is a whole number ran

Abstract: A process for the preparation of benzophenonimine (BPI) of the general formula I where R1 and R2 are C1- to C4-alkoxy, C1- to C2-alkylamine and C2- to C4-dialkylamine and m and n are integers from 0 to 5 and R1 and R2, independently of one another, may be identical or different, by reacting benzophenone (BP) of the general formula II where R1, R2, m and n have the abovementioned meanings, in ammonia and in the presence of titanium dioxide, the titanium dioxide being present substantially in the anatase modification.

Abstract: Method of preparing single-layer or multilayer color and/or effect films comprising a color and/or effect layer, by (1) continuously applying a component amount of a basecoat material (A) by means of a directed application technique to a carrier, the applicator (1) and the carrier being in relative motion with respect to one another, to construct a portion of the color and/or effect layer, (2) at least once, continuously applying the remainder of the basecoat material (A) and/or a basecoat material (B), which is different than the basecoat (A), to the component layer (1) formed by an application technique (2) which in the resulting component layer (2) induces no arrangement of the pigments in a preferential direction, the applicator (2) and the carrier being in relative motion with respect to one another, to further or fully construct the color and/or effect layer, and (3) drying or partly or fully curing the color and/or effect layer.

Abstract: A process for producing water-absorbing polymeric particles comprises the steps of i) drying a hydrogel to produce a dried hydrogel, ii) separating incompletely dried polymeric particles from the dried hydrogel, and iii) drying the separated-off incompletely dried polymeric particles, wherein the separated incompletely dried polymeric particles are comminuted before said drying iii).

Abstract: A process for the preparation of alkyleneimines by subjecting sulfuric acid monoesters of aminoalkanols to an at least two-stage reaction with aqueous bases at a temperature of at least 110° C. under pressure, relieving the pressure of the reaction mixture and distilling off the alkyleneimines from the reaction mixture after each reaction stage, wherein the conversion in the first stage is from 40 to 90% and that in the second stage is from more than 90% to 99.99%.

Abstract: The invention relates to a fungicidal mixture that comprises (1) 2-[2-(1-chlorocyclopropyl)-3-(2-chlorophenyl)-2-hydroxypropyl]-2,4-dihydro-[1,2,4]-triazolo-3-thion (prothioconazole) or the salts or adducts thereof and at least one further fungicidal composition, selected from (2) boscalid or (3) carboxine or (4) metrafenone or (5) a compound of formula (V) or (6) a compound of formula (VI) or (7) quinoxyfen or (8) dithianon or (9) thiram or (10) mepiquat chlorides or (11) cyazofamid or (12) fenoxanil or (13) a compound of formula (XIII) or (14) thiophanate methyl or (15) carbendazim or (16) metalaxyl or (17) fludioxonil or (18) thiabendazole or (19) quintozene or (20) prochloraz or (21) anthraquinone in a synergistically effective amount.

Abstract: A UV-A-curable, solvent-containing composition composed of (A) 1% to 50% by weight of a UV-A-curable constituent containing isocyanate-reactive groups; (B) 0.01% to 10% by weight of a colorless photoinitiator having an absorption maximum in the wavelength range of ?=300 to 400 nm; (C) 10% to 70% by weight of an alkyl and/or cycloalkyl acetate having 3 to 10 carbon atoms in the alkyl radical and/or in the cycloalkyl radical; (D) 10% to 70% by weight of an alkoxyalkyl, alkoxycycloalkyl, cycloalkoxyalkyl and/or cycloalkoxycycloalkyl acetate; (E) 0.01% to 5% by weight of a constituent that lowers the interfacial tension; (F) 0 to 50% by weight of an alkylaromatic having at least two alkyl radicals having 1 to 6 carbon atoms in the molecule; and (G) 0 to 50% by weight of an additive different from constituents (A) to (F); processes for preparing it, and its use as a spot blender in automotive refinishing, especially in spot repair, or for preparation thereof.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a nonionic emulsifier for spontaneous emulsification, containing a chemical compound having the general structure tallow alcohol -n PO-m EO, the average number of hydrocarbon atoms of the tallow alcohol amounting to between 16 and 18, and the iodine count being lower than or equal to 1 g of iodine/100 g of the chemical compound. The average degree of propoxylation is between 1 and 4, and the average degree of ethoxylation is between 2 and 6.

Abstract: A process for producing geometric shaped catalyst bodies K whose active material is a multielement oxide of stoichiometry [BiaZ1bOx]p[BicMo12FedZ2eZ3fZ4gZ5hZ6iOy]1, in which a finely divided oxide BiaZ1bOx and, formed from element sources, a finely divided mixture of stoichiometry BicMo12FedZ2eZ3fZ4gZ5hZ6i are mixed in a ratio of p:1, this mixture is used to form shaped bodies and these are treated thermally, where 0<c?0.8.

Abstract: This invention relates generally to nucleic acid sequences encoding proteins that are associated with abiotic stress responses and abiotic stress tolerance in plants. This invention further relates to transformed plant cells with altered metabolic activity compared to a corresponding non-transformed, wild-type plant cell, wherein the metabolic activity is altered by transformation with a Stress-Related Protein (SRP) coding nucleic acid and results in increased tolerance and/or resistance to an environmental stress as compared to a corresponding non-transformed, wild-type plant cell.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing difluoromethyl-substituted pyrazol-4-ylcarboxylates of the formula I in which R1 is C1-C8-alkyl, C3-C8-cycloalkyl, C1-C4-alkoxy-C1-C4-alkyl, etc.; and R2 is hydrogen, C1-C4-alkyl, benzyl or phenyl, wherein a) a compound of the general formula II in which X is fluorine, chlorine or bromine, R1 has one of the meanings given above and R4 is C1-C8-alkyl, C3-C8-cycloalkyl, C2-C8-alkenyl, benzyl or phenyl, is reacted with a silane compound of the general formula R3nSiCl(4-n) in which n is 1, 2 or 3 and the substituents R3 are independently of one another selected from the group consisting of C1-C8-alkyl and phenyl and with a metal selected from the metals of groups 1, 2, 3, 4 and 12 of the Periodic Table of the Elements having a redox potential of less than ?0.7 V, based on a normal hydrogen electrode (at 25° C. and 101.

Abstract: A process for preparing water-absorbing polymer beads with high permeability by polymerizing droplets of a monomer solution in a gas phase surrounding the droplets, wherein the monomer solution comprises at least 0.5% by weight of a crosslinker, based on the monomer, the polymerization in the droplet takes place in homogeneous phase, and the polymer beads have a mean diameter of at least 150 ?m.

Abstract: A process for producing geometric shaped catalyst bodies K whose active material is a multielement oxide of stoichiometry [Bi1WbOx]a[Mo12Z1cZ2dFeeZ3fZ4gZ5nOy]1, in which a finely divided oxide Bi1WbOx with the particle size d50A1 and, formed from element sources, a finely divided intimate mixture of stoichiometry Mo12Z1cZ2dFeeZ3fZ4gZ5h with the particle size d50A2 are mixed in a ratio of a:1, this mixture is used to form shaped bodies and these are treated thermally, where (d50A1)0.7•(d90A1)1.5•(a)?1?820.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an ampholytic copolymer based on quaternized nitrogen-containing monomers which has a molar excess of cationogenic/cationic groups compared to anionogenic/anionic groups, to cosmetic or pharmaceutical compositions which comprise at least one such ampholytic copolymer, and to further uses of these copolymers.

Abstract: Microcapsules wherein the capsule wall is formed from an organic polymer (capsule wall polymer for short) and the core of the microcapsules comprises compounds containing carbodiimide groups (carbodiimide compound for short).

Abstract: Compositions comprising: (A) at least one surfactant of the general formula (I) (R1—[(O—(CH2)2)x1(O—CH(CH3)CH2)x2]O)kP(?O)(OH)3-k??(I) wherein the sequence of the alkyleneoxy units is arbitrary, each R1 independently represents a moiety selected from the group consisting of linear and branched C12-C22-alkyl, C12-C22-alkenyl, C12-C22-alkynyl, (C11-C21-alkyl)carbonyl, (C11-C21-alkenyl)carbonyl and (C11-C21-alkynyl)carbonyl, k represents 1 or 2 and x1 and x2 each independently represent an integer of 0 to 20, the sum of x1 and x2 being a number of 1 to 20; and (B) at least one thickener comprising at least two hydrophobic groups R2 which are linked to one another via a bridging hydrophilic group (?), wherein each R2, independently represents a moiety selected from the group consisting of C8-C32-alkyl, C8-C32-alkenyl, C8-C32-alkynyl, cycloalkyl, aryl, and aryl-C1-C32-alkyl, which in each case may have up to 3 hydroxyl substituents; wherein the composition has a pH which is viscosity-dependent.