Abstract: The present invention relates to nucleic acid molecules encoding enzymes which are involved in the starch synthesis in plants. These enzymes are starch synthases from wheat. The invention further relates to vectors and host cells containing said nucleic acid molecules, in particular transformed plant cells and plants regenerated from these cells, which exhibit an increased or a reduced activity of the described starch synthases.

Abstract: Disclosed are compounds of the formula (I) or salts thereof in which R1, R2, R3, R4, I, R5, Q, R4, W, X, Y, V and Z, are as defined in the specification, which are suitable for use as herbicides or plant growth regulators. Also disclosed are processes for preparing the compounds of formula (I) or salts thereof.

Abstract: The present invention relates to nucleic acid molecules encoding enzymes which are involved in the starch synthesis in plants. These enzymes are starch synthases from wheat. The invention further relates to vectors and host cells containing said nucleic acid molecules, in particular transformed plant cells and plants regenerated from these cells, which exhibit an increased or a reduced activity of the described starch synthases.

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: This invention provides for, inter alia, a herbicidal composition comprising a mixture of: A. a herbicidally effective amount of at least one compound of the formula where V and Z are defined in the specification; and B. an antidote.

Abstract: Herbicide combinations (A)+(B), if appropriate in the presence of safeners, with an effective content of (A) broad-spectrum herbicides from the group (A1) glufosinate (salts) and related compounds (A2) glyphosate (salts) and related compounds such as sulfosate, (A3) imidazolinones such as imazethapyr, imazapyr, imazaquin, imazamox or their salts and (A4) herbicidal azoles from the group of the protoporphyrinogen oxidase inhibitors (PPO inhibitors) and (B) one or more herbicides from the group of the compounds consisting of (B0) one or more structurally different herbicides from the above-mentioned group (A) and/or (B1) foliar- and/or soil-acting herbicides (residual action) which are effective selectively in soybeans against monocotyledonous and predominantly dicotyledonous harmful plants or (B2) herbicides which are effective selectively in soybeans against dicotyledonous harmful plants, or (B3) foliar- and soil-acting herbicides which are effective selectively in soybeans against monocotyledonous harmf

Abstract: Phenylsulfonyl ureas are disclosed for controlling harmful plants in crops of useful plants. Also disclosed are processes for the preparation of phenylsulfonyl ureas, and their use as herbicides and plant growth regulators.

Abstract: Herbicidal compositions comprising A) at least one compound from the group of the substituted phenylsulfonylureas of the formula I and their agriculturally acceptable salts in which R1 is (C1–C8)alkyl, (C3–C4)alkenyl, (C3–C4)alkynyl or (C1–C4)alkyl which is mono- to tetrasubstituted by radicals selected from the group consisting of halogen and (C1–C2)alkoxy, and B) at least one herbicidally active compound from the group of compounds composed of Ba) herbicides which act selectively against grasses in cereals and/or maize, Bb) herbicides which act selectively against dicots in cereals and/or maize, Bc) herbicides which act selectively against grasses and dicots in cereals and/or maize and Bd) herbicides which act non-selectively against grass weeds and broad-leaved weeds in non-crop areas and/or selectively against grass weeds and broad-leaved weeds in transgenic crops.

Abstract: The invention relates to the preparation of compounds (I) in which A=H or acyl and R1, R2, R3, R, n, X, Y and Z are as defined in claim 1 by halogenation and rearrangement of compounds (II) (optionally salt) to give compounds (III) R*?OH, R**?NR1R2??(II) R*?NR1R2, R**?Cl??(III) R*?NR1R2, R**?NH2??(IV) a) ammonolysis of (III) to (IV), reduction of the nitro group and reaction with carbamate (salts) (VI) of the formula Ar—OCO—N(M)-Het, where Ar=phenyl, M=H or cation and Het=heterocycle from formula (I), to give compounds (I) (A=H), or b) ammonolysis of (III) to (IV), reaction with carbamate (salt) (VI) and reduction of resulting compounds (VII) at the NO2 group to give compounds (I) (A=H), or c) reaction of (III) with cyanates and amines (V) of the formula HNR3?Het and reduction of the resulting compound (VII) at the NO2 group to give compounds (I) (A=H) and optional acylation if A is to be other than H. Compounds of the formulae (I) (A=H), (III), (IV), (V), (VI) (M=cation) and (VII) are novel.

Abstract: Herbicide combinations (A)+(B), if appropriate in the presence of safeners, with an effective content of (A) broad-spectrum herbicides from the group (A1) glufosinate (salts) and related compounds (A2) glyphosate (salts) and related compounds such as sulfosate, (A3) imidazolinones, (A4) herbicidal azoles from the group of the protoporphyrinogen oxidase inhibitors (PPO inhibitors) (A5) cyclohexanedione herbicides and (A6) heteroaryloxyphenoxypropionic acid herbicides and (B) one or more herbicides from the group of the compounds consisting of (B0) one or more structurally different herbicides from the abovementioned group (A) or (B1) foliar- and soil-acting herbicides against monocotyledonous and dicotyledonous harmful plants or (B2) herbicides which can be employed selectively in maize against dicots, or (B3) foliar- and soil-acting herbicides which can be employed selectively in maize, predominantly against dicotyledonous harmful plants, ?or herbicides from several of groups (B0) to (B3) are suitab

Abstract: Herbicidal compositions comprising A) at least one herbicidally active compound from the group of the substituted phenylsulfonylureas of the formula I and their agriculturally accepted, i.e. acceptable and compatible, salts in which R1 is (C1-C8)-alkyl, (C3-C4) -alkenyl, (C3-C4)-alkynyl or (C1-C4)-alkyl, which is mono- to tetrasubstituted by radicals from the group consisting of halogen and (C1-C2)-alkoxy; R2 is I or CH2NHSO2CH3; R3 is methyl or methoxy; and Z is N or CH; and B) at least one herbicidally active compound from the group of the compounds consisting of Ba) herbicides which are selective in rice, mainly against grasses, Bb) herbicides which are selective in rice, mainly against dicotyledonous harmful plants and cyperaceae, Bc) herbicides which are selective in rice, mainly against cyperaceae, and Bd) herbicides which are selective in rice, mainly against grasses an dicotyledenous harmful plants and also against harmful cyperaceae plants.

Abstract: The invention relates to processes for producing transgenic female-sterile plants using pistil or stigma tissue-specific promoters. In these plants, the development of particular plant parts can be prevented deliberately.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a nucleic acid molecule which encodes a protein with the function of a plant Mg chelatase subunit CHLD or an active fragment thereof; a protein which has the function of a plant Mg chelatase subunit CHLD or an active fragment thereof, preferably a recombinant protein; a method of determining the interaction of plant Mg chelatase subunits, in which a host cell is transformed with a DNA sequence as claimed in one or more of claims 1 to 3 and at least with one DNA sequence encoding a further subunit of Mg chelatase in such a manner that the interaction of the Mg chelatase gene products leads to a directly or indirectly, qualitatively or quantitatively measurable signal, preferably by activating a marker gene, and transgenic plants, transgenic plant cells, transgenic plant organs, transgenic plant seeds, transgenic propagation material comprising an abovementioned nucleic acid molecule.

Abstract: There are described DNA sequences, that contain the coding region of amino acid transporters whose, introduction in a plant genome modifies the transfer of metabolites in transgenic plants, plasmids, bacteria, yeasts and plants containing these DNA sequences, as well as their use.

Abstract: The invention relates to the preparation of compounds (I) in which A═H or acyl and R1, R2, R3, R, n, X, Y and Z are as defined in claim 1 by halogenation and rearrangement of compounds (II) (optionally salt) to give compounds (III) a) ammonolysis of (III) to (IV), reduction of the nitro group and reaction with carbamate (salts) (VI) of the formula Ar—OCO—N(M)-Het, where Ar=phenyl, M═H or cation and Het=heterocycle from formula (I), to give compounds (I) (A═H), or b) ammonolysis of (III) to (IV), reaction with carbamate (salt) (VI) and reduction of resulting compounds (VII) at the NO2 group to give compounds (I) (A═H), or c) reaction of (III) with cyanates and amines (VII) of the formula HNR3-Het and reduction of the resulting compound (VII) at the NO2 group to give compounds (I) (A═H) and optional acylation if A is to be other than H.

Abstract: The invention relates to processes for producing transgenic plants using tissue-specific promoters. In these plants, the development of particular plant parts can be prevented deliberately.

Abstract: The present invention relates to nucleic acid molecules encoding enzymes which are involved in the starch synthesis in plants. These enzymes are starch synthases from wheat. The invention further relates to vectors and host cells containing said nucleic acid molecules, in particular transformed plant cells and plants regenerated from these cells, which exhibit an increased or a reduced activity of the described starch synthases.

Abstract: Herbicide combinations (A)+(B), if appropriate in the presence of safeners, with an effective content of (A) broad-spectrum herbicides from the group (A1) glufosinate (salts) and related compounds (A2) glyphosate (salts) and related compounds such as sulfosate, (A3) imidazolinones such as imazethapyr, imazapyr, imazaquin, imazamox or their salts and (A4) herbicidal azoles from the group of the protoporphyrinogen oxidase inhibitors (PPO inhibitors) and (B) one or more herbicides from the group of the compounds consisting of (B0) one or more structurally different herbicides from the abovementioned group (A) and/or (B1) foliar- and/or soil-acting herbicides which are particularly effective selectively in cereals against monocotyledonous harmful plants and/or (B2) predominantly foliar-acting herbicides which are effective selectively in cereals against monocotyledonous and dicotyledonous harmful plants and/or (B3) foliar- and soil-acting herbicides which are effective selectively in cereals agains

Abstract: The present invention relates to 4-Haloalkyl-3-heterocyclylpyridines, 4-haloalkyl-5-heterocyclyl-pyrimidines and 4-trifluoromethyl-3-oxadiazolylpyridines, Processes for Their Preparation, Compositions Comprising Them, and Their Use as Pesticides More particularly, the present invention relates to 4-trifluoromethyl-3-oxadiazolylpyridines of the formula (I′), to processes for their preparation, to compositions comprising them and to the use of these compounds for controlling animal pests, in particular insects, spider mites, ectoparasites and helminths: wherein X, Y are as defined in the description.

Abstract: 1,3-Oxazoline and 1,3-thiazoline derivatives, their preparation, and their use as pesticides 1,3-Oxazoline and 1,3-thiazoline derivatives of the formula (I) where the symbols have the following meanings: A is phenyl, pyridyl, pyrimidinyl, pyrazinyl, pyrazolyl or thienyl, E is a single bond, (C1-C4)alkylene, —O—CH2— or —CH2—O—; G is a radical selected from the group consisting of Z is oxygen or sulfur. Compounds of the formula (I) have, in particular, a very good acaricidal and insecticidal action with regard to the spectrum of action and the potency.