Abstract: Process for production of herbicide-tolerant plants by expressing an exogenous herbicide-binding polypeptide in plants or plant organs. The invention furthermore relates to the use of the corresponding nucleic acids which encode a polypeptide, an antibody or parts of an antibody with herbicide-binding properties in transgenic plants, and the thus transformed plant itself.

Abstract: The invention relates to an aqueous, concentrated suspension (SC) for crop protection active compounds which comprises

Abstract: The present invention provides a process for preparing polymer powders by evaporating the volatile constituents from aqueous dispersions of film-forming polymers P in the presence of drying assistants T selected from the salts of oligomeric arylsulfonic acid-formaldehyde condensates wherein prior to the evaporation of the volatile constituents the aqueous polymer dispersion comprises at least 1.5% by weight, preferably at least 1.7% by weight, based on the polymer in the dispersion, of at least one anionic surface-active compound AO having at least one C6-C32 alkyl group; the polymer powders obtainable by the process; and their use in binding mineral building materials.

Abstract: In a process for preparing phthalic anhydride by passing a gas stream comprising o-xylene, oxygen and sulfur dioxide at elevated temperature over a catalyst comprising heavy metals, the content of N-acyl compounds in the gas stream is restricted to less than 200 ppm, based on the weight of o-xylene.

Abstract: A fungicidal composition for paddy-rice plants has as active ingredients N-(1-cyano-1,2-dimethylpropyl)-2-(2,4-dichlorophenoxy)propanamide in combination with one or more compounds selected from fungicidally active compounds. The combination is useful in a method for disease control of paddy-rice plants.

Abstract: 2-Phenoxyphenylacetic acid derivatives of the formula I where the substituents and the index have the following meanings: A is  where R1 is halogen, C1-C4-alkyl, C1-C4-alkoxy, CF3, C1-C4-haloalkoxy, formyl, C(═O)NRaRb or C(Ra)═NORb; Ra is hydrogen or C1-C4-alkyl; Rb is C1-C4-alkyl; n is 1, 2, 3 or 4, where the groups R1 may be different if n is not 1; R2 is halogen, CH3 or CF3; m is 0 or 1; and X is OCH3 or NHCH3; processes and intermediates for preparing the compounds I and the use of the compounds I for controlling harmful fungi are described.

Abstract: The present invention describes a process for preparing isoxazoles of the formula I where: R1 is hydrogen, C1-C6-alkyl, R2 is hydrogen, C1-C6-alkyl, R3, R4, R5 are each hydrogen, C1-C6-alkyl or R4 and R5 together from a bond, R6 is a heterocysclic ring, n is 0, 1 or 2; which comprises preparing an intermediate of the formula VI where R1, R3, R4 and R5 are each as defined above, followed by halogenation, thiomethylation, oxidation and acylation to give compounds of the formula I. Furthermore, the invention describes novel intermediates for preparing the compounds of the formula I and novel processes for preparing the intermediates.

Abstract: Chiral dopants of the formula I Z1—Y1—(A1)m—Y2—M—Y3—X—Y4—(A2)n—Y5—Z2  I in which the variables have, independently of one another, the following meanings: A1 and A2 a spacer with a chain length of 1 to 30 carbon atoms; Y1 to Y5 a chemical bond, —O—, —S—, —C(═O)—, —C(═O)—O—, —O—C(═O)—, —CH═CH—C(═O)—O—, —O—C(═O)—O—, —C(═O)—N(R)— or —(R)N—C(═O)—, —CH2—O—, —O—CH2—, —CH═N—, —N═CH— or —N═N—; M a mesogenic group; R hydrogen, C1-C4-alkyl; Z1 and Z2 hydrogen, C1-C4-alkyl, a polymerizable group or a radical having a polymerizable group; x a dianhydrohexitol residue selected from the group consisting of dianhydrosorbitol, dianhydromannitol and dianhydroiditol;

Abstract: In the preparation of esters of acrylic or methacrylic acid by esterification with alcohols, the interfering deposits formed on the apparatus parts by relatively high molecular weight by-products can be avoided, removed or lessened by allowing a liquid partly or wholly consisting of the alcohol used for the esterification to act on the deposits, fouled apparatus parts or on the surfaces of the apparatus parts on which deposits are easily formed, with preference being given to wetting the deposits or surfaces using suitable nozzles or cleaning sprayers.

Abstract: A method for the preparation of a storage stable organic polyisocyanate having allophanate linkages prepared by reacting a urethane containing organic polyisocyanate with a reactive hydroxyl compound in the presence of a liquid organic titanium oxide, or zirconium oxide, or hafnium oxide catalyst that is fully miscible in the reactive hydroxyl compound is disclosed. After completion of the allophanate reaction, the catalyst is deactivated by the use of a strong inorganic acid, organic acid, organic chloroformate or acid chloride.

Abstract: In a process for the continuous hydrogenation of nitrites to primary amines in the liquid phase over a suspended, activated Raney catalyst based on an alloy of aluminum and at least one transition metal selected from the group consisting of iron, cobalt and nickel, and, if desired, one or more further transition metals selected from the group consisting of titanium, zirconium, chromium and manganese, the hydrogenation is carried out in the absence of ammonia and basic alkali metal compounds or alkaline earth metal compounds.

Abstract: The invention relates to a feedstuff or premix comprising lysine base dry powder, where the free lysine base content of the dry matter is more than 70% by weight, and to a process for producing lysine base dry powder and its use.

Abstract: Proteins to be stabilized are incorporated between two domains of the gene III protein of a bacteriophage. A mixture of phages with a large repertoire of mutants of the protein to be stabilized in the gene III protein is treated with proteases. The phages which present the least stable variants of the protein lose their infectivity fastest, whereas those whose genes code for stabilized variants of the protein retain their infectivity longest. Infection of bacterial cells with the phages treated with proteases and multiplication thereof leads to enrichment of the phages which comprise genes of stabilized variants of the mutagenized protein. The sequences of the most stable variants of the protein are obtained in this way from the genomes of the phages remaining after several rounds of phage cultivation, proteolysis and reinfection.

Abstract: A process for the preparation of one or more ethanolamines (I), chosen from the group consisting of monoethanolamine, diethanolamine and triethanolamine, by conversion of one or more ethanolamines (II) different from the ethanolamine(s) (I), chosen from the group consisting of monoethanolamine, diethanolamine, triethanolamine. O,N,N-tris(2-hydroxyethyl) ethanol-N-(2-aminoethyl)-ethanolamine, N-(2-amine, hydroxy ethyl) piperazine, N-(2-hydroxyethyl)morpholine and N,N′-bis(2-hydroxyethyl)piperazine, where the ethanolamine(s) (II), optionally in the presence of ammonia, is/are treated with a strong base.

Abstract: Thermoplastic molding compositions comprise A) from 10 to 90% by weight of at least one thermoplastic polymer, B) from 1 to 20% by weight of a polyethylene which contains carboxyl groups and has a mean molecular weight Mn (number average) of from 24,000 to 100,000 g/mol, C) from 5 to 60% by weight of a halogen-free flame retardant D) from 0 to 70% by weight of other additives and processing aids, where the total of the percentages by weight of components A) to D) is 100%

Abstract: &agr;-Olefins are polymerized in the gas phase at from 30 to 150° C. and a pressure of from 5 to 80 bar using a catalyst or a catalyst mixture containing as antistatic agent from 0.1 to 5% by weight of ZnO and/or anhydrous MgO, based on the total amount of the catalyst mixture, except for a process in which the catalyst mixture comprises a chromium catalyst and MgO-supported Ziegler catalyst which is modified with an alkene and with alkylaluminum hydride and also comprises free MgO and the total amount of the MgO is not less than 2% by weight of the catalyst mixture.

Abstract: Transgenic animals carrying two transgenes, the first coding for a transactivator fusion protein comprising a tet repressor and a polypeptide which directly or indirectly activates in eucaryotic cells, and the second comprising a gene operably linked to a minimal promotor operably linked to at least one tet operator sequence, are disclosed. Isolated DNA molecules (e.g., targeting vectors) for integrating a polynucleotide sequence encoding a transactivator of the invention at a predetermined location within a second target DNA molecule by homologous recombination are also disclosed. Transgenic animals having the DNA molecules of the invention integrated at a predetermined location in a chromosome by homologous recombination are also encompassed by the invention. Methods to regulate the expression of a tet operator linked-gene of interest by administering tetracycline or a tetracycline analogue to an animal of the invention are also disclosed.

Abstract: Transgenic animals carrying a transgene comprising a nucleic acid molecule encoding protein useful for regulating the expression of genes in eukaryotic cells and organisms in a highly controlled manner are disclosed. In the regulatory system of the invention, transcription of a tet operator-linked nucleotide sequence is stimulated by a transcriptional activator fusion protein composed of two polypeptides, a first polypeptide which binds to tet operator sequences in the presence of tetracycline operatively linked to a second polypeptide activates transcription in eukaryotic cells. In a preferred embodiment, the transgene encoding the transcriptional activator fusion protein is integrated at a predetermined location within the chromosome of the transgenic animal.

Abstract: The present invention provides thiochroman- and dihydrobenzothiophene-substituted methylene compounds of formula I. Further provided are compositions and methods utilizing said formula I compounds for the control of undesirable plant species.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for resolving racemates of alkoxy-substituted primary amines by reacting with an ester in the presence of a lipase and subsequently separating the optically active amide which is formed from the unreacted optically active amine. This is followed where appropriate by hydrolysis of the optically active amide, separation of the optically active amine produced thereby from the acid from which the ester is derived, racemization and recycling of the unwanted enantiomer of the amine, and esterification and recycling of the acid.