Abstract: The invention relates to surfactant systems for liquid aqueous or aqueous-organic formulations comprising a mixture of one or more basic cosurfactants and one or more surfactants from the group of the acidic phosphoric esters. The surfactant system makes possible the preparation of stable liquid formulations for active compounds, the formulations comprising (a) one or more water-soluble active compounds (type (a)) and (b) optionally one or more water-insoluble active compounds (type (b)), (c) optionally organic solvents, (d) the abovementioned surfactant system and water. The formulations are either single-phase aqueous or aqueous-organic formulations of type-(a) active compounds, for example glufosinate-ammonium or glyphosate(salts), or they are microemulsions of type-(a) and type-(b) active compounds, for example diphenyl ether herbicides.

Abstract: This invention provides for 2,4-diamino-1,3,5-triazines, their preparation and their use as herbicides or plant growth regulators.

Abstract: An isolated DNA molecule encoding a protein from a plant, which protein has pantothenate synthetase activity; a non-naturally occuring chimeric gene comprising a promoter operably linked to a DNA molecule encoding a protein from a plant having pantothenate synthetase activity; a recombinant vector comprising the chimeric gene wherein the vector is capable of being stably transformed into host cell, a host cell stably transformed with a vector wherein the host cell is capable of expressing the DNA molecule; a method for assaying a protein having pantothenate synthetase activity; the use as herbicides of compounds which inhibit pantothenate synthetase, and a herbicidal composition, comprising one or more active ingredients which show significant pantothenate synthetase inhibition in an assay, are disclosed. The invention relates to plant enzymatic activity, and aspects therefor, involved in the biosynthesis of coenzyme A.

Abstract: Nucleotide sequences encoding enzymes that alter the carbohydrate concentration and composition in plants are described. The sequences encode branching enzymes which alter the amylose/amylopectin ratio in the starch of plants.

Abstract: Aromatic amides, their preparation process and their use as pesticides.

Abstract: The invention relates to DNA molecules which code for deacetylases or proteins having the biological activity of a deacetylase and also transgenic plant cells which were transformed using the DNA molecules according to the invention. These molecules can be used for the production of plants having specifically destroyable parts, i.e. male- or female-sterile plants, by means of the specific expression of a deacetylase gene.

Abstract: Compounds of the formula: wherein R1, R2, and m are as defined herein, and compositions comprising them, which are suitable for controlling animal pests.

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: 4-Haloalkyl-3-heterocyclylpyridines and 4-haloalkyl-5-heterocyclyl-pyrimidines, processes for their preparation, compositions comprising them, and their use as pesticides The present invention relates to 4-haloalkyl-3-heterocyclylpyridines and 4-haloalkyl-5-heterocyclylpyrimidines 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. In the formula (I), Q is a 5-membered heterocyclic group which is optionally substituted by halogen or organic radicals, Y is halo-C1-C6-alkyl, X is CH or N and m is 0 or 1.

Abstract: A herbicidally active composition comprises a mixture of A. a herbicidally effective amount of one or more compounds of the formula (I),  and B.

Abstract: The invention relates to the preparation of compounds (I) in which A=H or acyl and R1, R21, 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 (VIII) 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: DNA which leads to the formation of polyfructans (levans), plasmids containing this DNA, as well as processes using plasmids for preparing transgenic plants with polyfructan (levan) expression.

Abstract: Compounds of the formula (I) and salts thereof in which W1, W2, R, n, R1, R2, R4, X, Y and Z are as defined in claim 1 and R3 is an acyl radical, are suitable as herbicides and plant growth regulators. The herbicides can be prepared by the process variants from claim 5, the novel intermediate products (II), (IV), (VI) and (VIII)* of claims 9 and 10 being employed.

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 and dicotyledonous harmful plants and also against harmful cyperaceae plants.

Abstract: Herbicide combinations which contain components (A) and (B) have synergistic herbicidal effects on: (A) one or more herbicides of the formula (I) or their salts,  in which R1, R2, R3, X, Y and Z are defined as in claim 1, and (B) one or more herbicides from the group of the compounds consisting of (B1) foliar- and soil-acting herbicides which are effective selectively in cereals and some dicotyledonous crops against monocotyledonous and dicotyledonous harmful plants, (B2) herbicides which are effective selectively in cereals and some dicotyledonous crops against predominantly dicotyledonous harmful plants and (B3) herbicides which are to be employed nonselectively or in specifically tolerant crops and are effective against monocotyledonous and dicotyledonous harmful plants.

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: A mixture, comprising (A) thidiazuron or thidiazuron and diuron and (B) one or more PPO inhibitors of the formula (I) W—V  (I), where the symbols have the meanings given in the description, is suitable for effecting leaf abscission of plants, in particular cotton plants.

Abstract: The present invention concerns a method for producing esters of 2-fluoro-iso butyric acid in which the corresponding 2-hydroxyisobutyric acid ester is reacted with hydrofluoric acid.

Abstract: The present invention relates to DNA sequences which, on the codogenic strand, code plant debranching enzymes whose transcripts formed in transgenic plants code new proteins with the enzymatic activity of debranching enzymes which in transgenic plants reduce the degree of branching of amylopectin starch. The invention also relates to DNA sequences which on the codogenic strand code plant debranching enzymes whose transcripts formed in transgenic plants prevent the synthesis of proteins with the enzymatic activity of debranching enzymes, which in transgenic plants increases the degree of branching of amylopectin starch, and also to recombinant plasmids on which these DNA sequences are localized and which can be introduced into plant cells and plants.

Abstract: (Het)Arylsulfonylureas having an imino function, their preparation, and their use as herbicides and plant growth regulators Compounds of the formula (I) and salts thereof in which A is a (hetero)aromatic or heterocyclic bridge linked to the group SO2 by a direct bond, or via O, S, NH, CH2 or via alkylated NH or alkylated methylene, B is a group having an imino-containing fragment N═C—N, N═C—S, N═C—O or N═C—C which is linked to A by one of the nitrogen atoms of the fragment, R═H or an aliphatic radical, W═O or S and X, Y and Z are as defined in claim 1 are suitable as herbicides and plant growth regulators. The preparation is carried out for example similarly to known processes via novel intermediates of the formula (XII) (cf.