Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the preparation of fungicidally active compounds such as tricyclic amine derivatives (I). The process involves coupling of a carboxylic 5 acid e.g. a compound of formula (II) with an aniline, e.g. a compound of formula (III) in the presence of a boronic acid catalystor an antimony catalyst (II)(III)(I) wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, X, Y and Het are defined in the specification.

Abstract: The present invention provides a process for coating a plant propagation material, including a seed, comprising: a.) providing a propagation material, such as seed, to be coated; b.) applying to the propagation material a composition comprising at least one reactant having reactive functionality and, optionally, at least one active ingredient; and c.) polymerising, crosslinking, curing or otherwise reacting the reactant having reactive functionality on the surface of the plant propagation material to form a coating thereon which may encompass an a.i., when present. The present invention further provides a method for enhancing the safety, quality and/or viability of a plant propagation material, including a seed, comprising providing a coated material having less dust-off.

Abstract: The present invention relates, inter alia, a method of selectively controlling weeds at a locus comprising crop plants and weeds, wherein the method comprises application to the locus of a weed controlling amount of a pesticide composition comprising an homogentisate solanesyltransferase (HST) inhibiting herbicide and/or hydroxyphenyl pyruvate dioxygenase (HPPD) inhibiting herbicide, wherein the crop plants comprise at least one recombinant polynucleotide which comprises a region which encodes an HST; to a method of selectively controlling weeds at a locus comprising crop plants and weeds, wherein the method comprises application to the locus of a weed controlling amount of a pesticide composition comprising an homogentisate solanesyltransferase (HST) inhibiting herbicide, wherein the crop plants comprise at least one recombinant polynucleotide which comprises a region which encodes a HPPD enzyme and to recombinant polynucleotides and vectors for utilised in the methods.

Abstract: The present invention includes a fast-drying liquid composition comprising a least one fungicide and at least one insecticide. The present invention further includes a method for treating plant propagation materials, especially cut seeds, including tubers, against pest, a method for promoting suberization in cut seeds, a method for decreasing the drying time of a liquid pesticide on cut seeds, and a method for selectively loading a pesticide onto the skin side of a cut seed.

Abstract: Pyrandione, thiopyrandione and cyclohexanetrione derivatives of formula (I), which are suitable for use as herbicides.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of selectively controlling weeds at a locus comprising crop plants and weeds, wherein the method comprises application to the locus of a weed controlling amount of an aqueous spray composition comprising a compound of formula (I) wherein R1 is selected from the group consisting of C1-C6alkyl, C2-C6alkenyl, C2-C6haloalkenyl, C2-C6alkynyl, C2-C6haloalkynyl, C3-C6cycloalkyl, C1-C6haloalkyl, C1-C4alkoxy-C1-C4alkyl and C1-C4alkoxy-C1-C4alkoxy-C1-C4alkyl; and R2 is C1-C6haloalkyl; or an agriculturally acceptable salt therefore; wherein in the pH of the spray composition is from about 5 to about 9. The invention further relates to a liquid substantially non-aqueous herbicide composition comprising a compound of formula (I) as defined above and a pH adjuster, and to the use of a pH adjuster to reduce the phytotoxicity of a compound of formula (I) in crop plants.

Abstract: A fungicidal composition suitable for control of disease caused by phytopathogens comprising (A) a compound of formula (I), wherein R1 is methyl, ethyl or isopropyl; R2 is 2-chloro-6-fluoro-phenyl, 2,4,6-trifluorophenyl or 2,6-difluoro-4-methoxy-phenyl; R3 is chloro, fluoro or methoxy; and (B) a compound selected, for example, from the group consisting of (B1) a strobilurin fungicide, (B2) an azole fungicide, (B3) a morpholine fungicide, and (B4) an anilinopyrimidine fungicide.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an emulsification-stable pesticidal composition having ant-control, rotcontrol and mildew-control effects. Another object of the present invention is to provide a composition having pesticidal effects, and particularly antimicrobial effects, for protecting industrial materials such as wood, pulp, paper, fibers, adhesives, films subject to deterioration (rotting) and contamination by insects and particularly by microorganisms. A pesticidal composition is used that comprises an emulsification stabilizer selected from the group consisting of lactic acid, glycolic acid, citric acid, succinic acid, benzoic acid and a mixture thereof, a fungicide like 2-(thiazol-4ine)benzimidazole; a further triazole-based fungicide component, a pyrethroid insecticide component or a (thia) nicotinyl insecticide or another insecticide component, a mixed solvent comprising a glycol-based solvent and methyl pyrrolidone, and a surfactant.

Abstract: The use of a compound of formula I Y is a single bond, C?O, C?S or S(O)m m where m is 0, 1 or 2; the ring represented by T is a 5 or 6 membered heteroaromatic and R1, R2, R3, R8 and Ra are specified organic groups and p is 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6; q is 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6; p+q is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6; or salts or N-oxides thereof or compositions containing them in controlling insects, acarines, nematodes or molluscs; novel compounds are also provided.

Abstract: The present invention relates to substituted pyrimidine derivatives as well as N-oxides and agriculturally acceptable salts thereof, and their use to control undesired plant growth, in particular in crops of useful plants. The invention extends to herbicidal compositions comprising such compounds, N-oxides and/or salts as well as mixtures of the same with one or more further active ingredient (such as, for example, an herbicide, fungicide, insecticide and/or plant growth regulator) and/or a safener.

Abstract: A compound of formula (I): where A is an ortho-substituted ring selected from a number of specified rings; R1 is halogen, cyano, nitro, C1-4 alkyl, C1-4 haloalkyl, C1-4 alkoxy or C1-4 haloalkoxy or optionally substituted C2-4 alkenyl, optionally substituted C2-4 alkynyl or optionally substituted SO2(C1-4)alkyl (where the optionally substituted moieties may each have up to 3 substituents, each independently selected from halogen and C1-4 alkoxy); R2 is C1-4 alkyl, C1-4 haloalkyl, C1-4 alkoxy(C1-4)alkyl or C1-4 alkylthio(C1-4)alkyl or [optionally substituted aryl](C1-4)alkyl- or [optionally substituted aryl]oxy(C1-4)alkyl-(where the optionally substituted aryl moieties may each have up to 3 substituents, each independently selected from halogen and C1-4 alkoxy); R3 is hydrogen, CH2C?CR4, CH2CR4?C(H)R4, CH?C?CH2 or COR5 or optionally substituted C1-4 alkyl, optionally substituted C1-4 alkoxy or optionally substituted (C1-4) alkylC(?O)O (where the optionally substituted moieties may each have up to 3 substit

Abstract: Compounds of the general formula (I); wherein the substituents are as defined in claim 1, are useful as fungicides.

Abstract: A compound of formula (I): F1 Het is a 5- or 6-membered heterocyclic ring containing one to three heteroatoms, each independently selected from oxygen, nitrogen and sulphur, the ring being substituted by groups R4, R5 and R6; R1 is hydrogen or halo; R2 is hydrogen or halo; R3 is optionally substituted C2-12 alkyl, optionally substituted C2-12 alkenyl, optionally substituted C2-12 alkynyl, optionally substituted C3-12 cycloalkyl, optionally substituted phenyl or optionally substituted heterocyclyl; and R4, R5 and R6 are, independently, selected from hydrogen, halo, cyano, nitro, C1-4 haloalkyl, C1-4 alkoxyl (C(1-4) alkoxyl (C1-4) alkyl and C1-4 haloalkoxy (C1-4) alkyl, provided that at least one of R4, R5 and R6 is not hydrogen. The compounds of formula (I) have plant-protective properties and are suitable for protecting plants against infestations by phytopathogenic microorganisms.

Abstract: The naphthyridine derivatives of formula (I) a and method of combating or controlling phytopathogenic fungi which comprises applying the compounds of formula (I) to a plant, to a seed of a plant and to the locus of the plant.

Abstract: A method of controlling phytopathogenic diseases on useful plants or on propagation material thereof, which comprises applying to the useful plants, the locus thereof or propagation material thereof a combination of components A) and B) in a synergistically effective amount, wherein component A) is a compound of formula (I) wherein R1 is CF2H or CF3; R2 is methyl or ethyl; R3 is hydrogen or chloro; and R4 is hydrogen or cyclopropyl; and agronomically acceptable salts/isomers/enantiomers/tautomers/N-oxides of those compounds; and component B) is a compound selected from compounds known for their fungicidal and/or insecticidal activity, is particularly effective in controlling or preventing fungal diseases of useful plants.

Abstract: A method of controlling or preventing pathogenic damage and/or pest damage in a plant propagation material, a plant, part of a plant and/or plant organ that grow at a later point in time, which comprises applying on the plant, part of the plant, plant organ, plant propagation material or a surrounding area thereof a combination comprising (I) prochloraz, (II) metconazole, and optionally (III) metalaxyl or mefenoxam.

Abstract: The present invention relates, inter alia, to a novel herbicide formulation comprising: (a) an aqueous phase; (b) an HPPD inhibitor in suspension in the aqueous phase; (c) an encapsulated chloroacetamide and/or an isoxazoline herbicide in suspension in the aqueous phase; (d) glyphosate and/or glufosinate or an agrochemically acceptable salt thereof, in solution in the aqueous phase. The invention further relates to a process for the preparation of an herbicide formulation of the invention and to a process for the control of unwanted vegetation.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of compounds for the control of gastropods. In particular, it relates to a method of controlling gastropods using strobilurin compounds.

Abstract: The present application relates to surfactant compositions comprising a) at least one phosphated arylphenol alkoxylate surfactant having an average degree of alkoxylation of from 4-8; and b) at least one alkylamine alkoxylate surfactant having an average degree of alkoxylation of from 2-12 and to the use of these compositions in pesticide formulations comprising solid or encapsulated pesticidally active ingredients or formulation aids and methods for improving the re-suspension properties of pesticide suspensions.

Abstract: The present invention relates to novel imidazoline derivatives and their use as insecticidal, acaricidal, mollus and nematocidal agents. The invention also extends to insecticidal, acaricidal, molluscicidal and nematicidal compositions comprising such imidazoline derivatives, and to methods of using such derivatives and/or compositions to combat and control insect, acarine, mollusc and nematode pests. A compound of formula (I): and the salts and N-oxides thereof.