Abstract: The present invention relates to serine hydroxymethyltransferase (E.C. 2.1.2.1) as novel target for herbicides, and to nucleic acid sequences encoding a polypeptide with the biological activity of a serine hydroxymethyltransferase, which, when not present, bring about growth retardation symptoms and chlorotic leaves, comprising the nucleic acid sequence SEQ ID No:3, and functional equivalents of the abovementioned nucleic acid sequence or the nucleic acid sequence SEQ ID NO:7 and functional equivalents of the abovementioned nucleic acid sequence. Moreover, the present invention relates to the use of the abovementioned nucleic acid sequences, of functional analogs of the SEQ ID NO:3 or SEQ ID NO:7 or of polypeptides encoded by one of the abovementioned nucleic acid sequences in a method for identifying herbicidally active compounds which inhibit serine hydroxymethyltransferases, and to the use of these compounds which have been identified by the method as herbicides.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for producing nanoparticulate solids by means of a Péclet number-stabilized gas-phase reaction.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for providing an animal population having an essentially identical metabolome comprising compiling an animal population being of essentially the same age, keeping said animal population for a time period sufficient for acclimatization under the following housing conditions: (i) constant temperature, (ii) constant humidity, (iii) physical separation of the animals of the animal population, (iv) feeding ad libitum, wherein the food to be fed is essentially free of chemical or microbial contaminance, (v) drinking libitum, wherein the drinking liquid is essentially free of chemical or microbial contaminance, (vi) constant illumination period, and providing the animal population after said time period. Further, the present invention relates to methods for the identification of a compound which effects the metabolome of an animal, or methods for the identification of a marker for such compounds.

Abstract: The present invention relates to antifreeze/anticorrosion concentrates comprising from 10 to 50% by weight, based on the total amount of the concentrate, of glycerol, to processes for preparing such concentrates from superconcentrates, to aqueous coolant compositions from these concentrates, and to their use, for example in internal combustion engines.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are rooted plant assay systems, methods of making rooted plant assay systems, and methods of using rooted plant assay systems for high throughput screening of test polynucleotides for their ability to effect phenotypic traits having agricultural value.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides white colored electrically conductive primer paint compositions which in addition to good electrical conductivity on polyolefin base materials have excellent adhesion properties and water resistance. A white colored electrically conductive primer paint composition comprising (A) resin which includes chlorinated polyolefin resin, (B) white colored electrically conductive filler which has been treated with a coupling agent where the coupling agent surface coverage of the filler is from 10 to 90% and (C) solvent, and in which there are from 10 to 150 parts by weight of (B) per 100 parts by weight as solid fraction of the resin (A).

Abstract: A process for preparing an aqueous polymer dispersion by free-radically initiated emulsion polymerization using an aqueous monomer miniemulsion which is obtained by passing an aqueous crude monomer emulsion through at least one microporous membrane having an average pore diameter?1000 nm.

Abstract: Method for determining the size concentration, the particle size and the particle size distribution of natural and/or synthetic sizes in a paper stock by staining a sample of the particles (Ti) of the size with a fluorescent dye, light being radiated into the sample of fluorescent or fluorescently stained particles and scattered light and/or fluorescent light from the sample being recorded and evaluated, and use of this method for determining the particle size distribution of reactive size particles in the paper stock or in the white water of paper machines during papermaking.

Abstract: A process for transferring heat to a liquid mixture comprising at least one (meth)acrylic monomer in an indirect heat exchanger, wherein a quaternary ammonium salt, a tertiary amine or a salt thereof with a Brønsted acid is added to the liquid mixture to reduce fouling.

Abstract: Solubilizers prepared by polymerizing: (i) at least one first monomer of the general formula (I): wherein R1 and R2 each independently represent H or CH3, R3 represents a C6-C10-aryl or C7-C12-aralkyl which may be unsubstituted or substituted with one or more C1-C9-alkyl and/or C1-C5-alkoxy substituents, and n represents an integer from 0 to 100; and (ii) at least one second monomer selected from the group consisting of N-vinylamides, N-vinyllactams, N-vinylimines, N-vinylamines having 2 to 15 carbon atoms, and mixtures thereof; and methods of solubilizing active ingredients by combining them with such a solubilizer.

Abstract: A pressure-sensitive adhesive comprising a polymer obtainable by free-radical polymerization and synthesized from a) 70% to 99% by weight of n-butyl acrylate b) 1% to 30% by weight of ethylhexyl acrylate c) 0 to 5% by weight of an ethylenically unsaturated acid d) 0 to 20% by weight of at least one further monomer, for which vinyl acetate is excluded.

Abstract: Amphiphilic water-soluble alkoxylated polyalkylenimines of the general formula I in which the variables are each defined as follows: R are identical or different, linear or branched C2-C6-alkylene radicals; B is a branch; E is an alkylenoxy unit of the formula R1 is 1,2-propylene, 1,2-butylene and/or 1,2-isobutylene; R2 is ethylene; R3 is 1,2-propylene; R4 are identical or different radicals: hydrogen; C1-C4-alkyl; x, y, z are each from 2 to 150, where the sum of x+y+z means a number of alkylenimine units which corresponds to an average molecular weight Mw of the polyalkylenimine before the alkoxylation of from 300 to 10 000; m is a rational number from 0 to 2; n is a rational number from 6 to 18; p is a rational number from 3 to 12, where 0.8?n/p?1.0 (x+y+z)1/2; and quaternization products thereof.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the production of multiply-unsaturated fatty acids in an organism, into which nucleic acids have been introduced, which code for polypeptides with ?-5 elongase activity. Said nucleic acid sequences, optionally with further nucleic acid sequences, coding for polypeptides for the biosynthesis of fatty acids and lipid metabolism, are advantageously expressed in the organism. Nucleic acid sequences coding for a ?-6 desaturase, a ?-5 desaturase, ?-4 desaturase and/or ?-6 elongase activity are particularly advantageous and, advantageously, said saturases and elongases are derived from Thalassiosira, Euglena or Ostreococcus. The invention further relates to a method for the production of oils and/or triacylglycerides with an increased content of long-chain, multiply-unsaturated fatty acids.

Abstract: Peelable polymeric protective films on surfaces, in particular on metallic surfaces, which exhibit an oxygen gradient, and a process for producing such protective films. The films are particularly suitable for providing surfaces with temporary protection.

Abstract: An aqueous dispersion comprising a polyurethane synthesized from a) organic diisocyanates b) dihydroxy compounds having a molar weight of 500 to 5000 g/mol and comprising no ionic group or group that can be converted to an ionic group c) mono- to trihydric alcohols additionally comprising an ionic group d) if appropriate, further compounds other than a) to c), wherein the polyurethane comprises less than 0.6% by weight of urea groups (calculated with a molar weight of 56 g/mol), the ionic group of c) has been at least partly neutralized with an alkali metal cation, and the reaction of compounds a), b), c), and d) does not take place in the presence of a catalyst containing a metal-carbon bond.

Abstract: The invention relates to the use of nondendrimeric, highly functional, hyperbranched polymers as demulsifiers for breaking crude oil emulsions. The hyperbranched polymers are preferably hyperbranched polycarbonates, hyperbranched polyesters, hyperbranched polyethers, hyperbranched polyurethanes, hyperbranched polyureapolyurethanes, hyperbranched polyureas, hyperbranched polyamides, hyperbranched polyetheramines and hyperbranched polyesteramides which are functional groups selected from the group consisting of —OC(O)OR, —COOH, —COOR, —CONHR, —CONH2, —OH, —SH, —NH2, —NHR, —NR2, —SO3H, —SO3R, —NHCOOR, —NHCONH2 and —NHCONHR, where R is an optionally substituted alkyl or aryl radical.

Abstract: Fungicidal mixtures, comprising as active components 1) carbamate oxime ethers of the formula I, in which X is N or CH, and 2) at least one active compound II selected from the group of the azoles, strobilurins, carboxamides, heterocyclic compounds, carbamates, guanidines, antibiotics, nitrophenyl derivatives, sulfur-containing heterocyclyl compounds, organometallic compounds, organophosphorus compounds, organochlorine compounds, inorganic active compounds, cyflufenamid, cymoxanil, dimethirimol, ethirimol, furalaxyl, metrafenone and spiroxamine, in a synergistically effective amount, methods for controlling harmful fungi using mixtures of the compound I with active compounds II, the use of the compound I with active compounds II for preparing such mixtures and compositions comprising these mixtures.

Abstract: A method for cleaning surfaces using aminoplast foam pieces produced from (a) open-cell aminoplast foams having a density in the range from 5 to 500 kg/m3 and a mean pore diameter in the range from 1 ?m to 1 mm or (b) open-cell aminoplast foams having a density in the range from 5 to 500 kg/m3 and a mean pore diameter in the range from 1 ?m to 1 mm, which have been treated (b1) with an aqueous formulation of at least one compound (b-1) having at least one hemiaminal or aminal group per molecule or at least one copolymer which comprises, incorporated in the form of polymerized units, at least one comonomer containing OH groups or ?-dicarbonyl groups or epoxide groups, or (b2) with at least one polymer (c-1) which is solid at room temperature, contains carboxyl groups and/or carboxylic ester groups and has a molecular weight Mn in the range from 1000 to 1 000 000 g/mol, the aminoplast foam pieces used having an average diameter in the range from 0.1 mm to 50 mm.

Abstract: A process for preparing a xylylenediamine by heterogeneously catalyzed hydrogenation of a phthalonitrile, wherein the hydrogenation is carried out in the presence of a nickel catalyst, of water, of an alkali metal hydroxide and of an ether as a solvent, at an absolute pressure in the range from 1 to 100 bar, at a temperature in the range from 40 to 150° C. and without addition of ammonia.

Abstract: Method for controlling rust infections in leguminous plants by using orysastrobin, mixtures of orysastrobin and a fungicidally active compound II from the group of the azoles, acylalanines, amine derivatives, anilinopyrimidines, dicarboximides, dithiocarbamates, heterocylic compounds, phenylpyrroles, cinnamides, and analogs, or other fungicides according to the description, and also compositions and seed comprising these mixtures.