Abstract: The cotton variety FM 9160B2F is disclosed. The invention relates to seeds, plants, plant cells, plant tissue, harvested products and cotton lint as well as to hybrid cotton plants and seeds obtained by repeatedly crossing plants of variety FM 9160B2F with other plants. The invention also relates to plants and varieties produced by the method of essential derivation from plants of FM 9160B2F and to plants of FM 9160B2F reproduced by vegetative methods, including but not limited to tissue culture of regenerable cells or tissue from FM 9160B2F.

Abstract: The cotton variety ST 4288B2F is disclosed. The invention relates to seeds, plants, plant cells, plant tissue, harvested products and cotton lint as well as to hybrid cotton plants and seeds obtained by repeatedly crossing plants of variety ST 4288B2F with other plants. The invention also relates to plants and varieties produced by the method of essential derivation from plants of ST 4288B2F and to plants of ST 4288B2F reproduced by vegetative methods, including but not limited to tissue culture of regenerable cells or tissue from ST 4288B2F.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an insecticide-containing fabric containing at least one embedded insecticidally active ingredient in the polymeric matrix and having excellent wash resistance, and also to the products produced from this fabric and to their use for protecting humans, animals and plants against arthropods, particularly for controlling insects.

Abstract: The present application discloses a(n) (isolated) nucleic acid sequence comprising a nucleotide sequence selected from (a) SEQ ID NO: 1 or a fragment thereof, wherein said fragment comprises at least 400 consecutive nucleotides of SEQ ID NO: 1 and has seed-specific promoter activity; (b) a nucleotide sequence with at least 80% sequence identity with SEQ ID NO: 1 and having seed-specific promoter activity; (c) a nucleotide sequence hybridizing under stringent conditions to the nucleotide sequence of (a) or (b); and (d) a nucleotide sequence complementary to the nucleotide sequence of any one of (a) to (c). Further disclosed herein is a chimeric gene comprising the (isolated) nucleic acid described herein operably linked to a nucleic acid coding for an expression product of interest, and optionally a transcription termination and polyadenylation sequence. Also disclosed herein are a vector, a transgenic plant cell, a transgenic plant and a seed as characterized in the claims.

Abstract: A method of improving the growth of a plant is provided, comprising the steps of applying an effective amount of a base treatment composition and an effective amount of a second treatment composition to seeds prior to planting, either simultaneously or separately in succession. The base treatment composition comprises at least one fungicide that is different from hymexazol and the second treatment composition comprises a first component comprising a neonicotinoid such as clothianidin and, optionally, but preferably, a synthetic pyrethroid such as beta-cyfluthrin, and a second component comprising hymexazol as at least one of its active ingredients.

Abstract: The invention relates to novel compounds of the formula (I) in which W, X, Y, Z, and CKE have the meanings given above, to a plurality of processes and intermediates for their preparation and to their use as pesticides and/or herbicides and/or fungicides. Moreover, the invention relates to selectively herbicidal compositions comprising, firstly, the biphenyl-substituted cyclic ketoenols and, secondly, a crop plant compatibility-improving compound. The present invention furthermore relates to the boosting of the action of crop protection compositions comprising in particular biphenyl-substituted cyclic ketoenols through the addition of ammonium or phosphium salts and optionally penetrants, to the corresponding compositions, to processes for their preparation and to their use in crop protection as insecticides and/or nematicides and/or acaricides and/or fungicides and/or for preventing unwanted plant growth.

Abstract: The invention relates to combinations of sulfonylurea herbicides (A) and their salts in which R2 is H, OH, aliphatic hydrocarbon radical or hydrocarbon-oxy radical, and R1 is an acyl radical, and the other symbols are as defined in claim 1, and safeners of type (B1) and (B2) in which the symbols are as defined in claim 1.

Abstract: Methods are provided to select plants and populations of epigenetically fixed crop plants with improved yield.

Abstract: The present invention relates to plant cells and plants, which are genetically modified, whereby the genetic modification leads to an increase in the activity of a starch-phosphorylating OK1 protein in comparison to the corresponding wild type plant cells or wild type plants that have not been genetically modified. In addition, the present invention concerns means and methods for the manufacture of such plant cells and plants. These types of plant cells and plants synthesize a modified starch. Therefore, the present invention also concerns the starches synthesized from the plant cells and plants according to the invention, methods for manufacturing these starches, and the manufacture of starch derivatives of these modified starches, as well as flours containing starches according to the invention. Furthermore, the present invention also relates to nucleic acids, coding starch-phosphorylating OK1 proteins, vectors, host cells, plant cells, and plants containing such nucleic acid molecules.

Abstract: The invention relates to 3-(benzylsulfinyl)-5,5-dimethyl-4,5-dihydroisoxazole derivatives and 5,5-dimethyl-3-[(1H-pyrazol-4-ylmethyl)sulfinyl]-4,5-dihydroisoxazole derivatives of the formula (I) and their salts processes for their preparation and their use as herbicides and plant growth regulators, in particular as herbicides for the selective control of harmful plants in crops of useful plants.

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.

Abstract: An ant bait which contains an active substance having insecticidal activity and a sugar syrup is described.

Abstract: The present invention relates to halogen-substituted amide derivatives of the general formula (I) in which R1 to R6, Q1 to Q8, A, V, W, X, Y, n and m are each defined as described in the description—and to a process for preparation thereof and to the use thereof as insecticides and acaricides.

Abstract: A herbicide composition includes a fenoxaprop ester and a weak acid buffer system. The buffer system maintains the herbicidal composition at a pH in the range of 4 to 8. In one non-limiting embodiment, the fenoxaprop ester is fenoxaprop ethyl. The buffer system can include an amine-containing material, such as a tertiary amine. The herbicide composition can include other herbicides, such as weak acid herbicides, for example pyrasulfotole, bromoxynil, and/or bromoxynil esters and can include one or more safeners.

Abstract: A herbicide composition includes a fenoxaprop ester and a weak acid buffer system. The buffer system maintains the herbicidal composition at a pH in the range of 4 to 8. In one non-limiting embodiment, the fenoxaprop ester is fenoxaprop ethyl. The buffer system can include an amine-containing material, such as a tertiary amine. The herbicide composition can include other herbicides, such as weak acid herbicides, for example pyrasulfotole, bromoxynil, and/or bromoxynil esters and can include one or more safeners.

Abstract: Herbicide combinations comprising components (A) and (B) show improved herbicidal effects: (A) one or more herbicides from the group of the compounds of the formula (I) and their salts, and (B) one or more herbicides from the group of the compounds of the formula (II) and their salts and esters, in which R1=is fluorine or chlorine, R2=is H or chlorine, R3=is H or NH2, and R4=is COOH, OCH2COOH, OCH2COOCH(CH3)CH2O(CH2)3CH3 or OCH2COOCH(CH3)(CH2)5CH3, where at least one of the radicals R2 and R3 is different from H.

Abstract: A composition comprising at least a compound (a) of general formula (I): and an insecticide compound (b) in a (a)/(b) weight ratio of from 1/1 to 1/1013. A composition further comprising an additional fungicidal compound. A method for preventively or curatively combating the pests and diseases of crops and increasing their yield by using this composition.

Abstract: The invention relates to novel insecticidal active compound combinations comprising, firstly, anthranilamides (group 1) and, secondly, further insecticidal active compounds selected from the group of the (thio)phosphates (group 2) and/or the group of the carbamates (group 3), which combinations are highly suitable for controlling animal pests, such as insects.

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.

Abstract: Process for the preparation of a N-[2-(2-pyridinyl)ethyl]carboxamide derivative of general formula (I) or a salt thereof Intermediate of general formula (II) Intermediate of general formula (III)