Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for cultivating sugar cane comprising removing buds together with meristematic tissue from the stalk of a 6 to 18 months old sugar cane plant, treating the buds with at least one fungicide and/or at least one insecticide and/or at least one nematicide and/or at least one growth regulator and/or at least one rooting enabler and/or growth-promoting bacteria, planting these buds in a growth medium, growing seedlings from the buds at a temperature of at least 15° C., and 10 to 120 days after planting the buds, planting the seedlings grown from the buds to the field if the growth medium is not a field, or, in case the growth medium is a field, exposing the seedlings obtained from the buds to ambient conditions.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for cultivating sugar cane comprising planting sugar cane shoots in a growth medium, growing seedlings from the shoots at a temperature of at least 15° C. and 10-120 days after having planted the shoots planting the seedlings obtained therefrom into the field if the growth medium is not a field, or, in case the growth medium is a field, exposing the seedlings obtained from the shoots to ambient conditions, where the seedling, while growing, is treated with at least one strobilurin fungicide and/or at least one carboxamide fungicide and/or at least one GABA antagonist insecticide and/or at least one nicotinic receptor agonists/antagonist insecticide and/or at least one chloride channel activator insecticide.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for cultivating sugar cane comprising removing buds together with meristematic tissue from the stalk of a 6 to 18 months old sugar cane plant, treating the buds with at least one fungicide and/or at least one insecticide and/or at least one nematicide and/or at least one growth regulator and/or at least one rooting enabler and/or growth-promoting bacteria, planting these buds in a growth medium, growing seedlings from the buds at a temperature of at least 15° C., and 10 to 120 days after planting the buds, planting the seedlings grown from the buds to the field if the growth medium is not a field, or, in case the growth medium is a field, exposing the seedlings obtained from the buds to ambient conditions.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition containing (A) at least one specific carbamate fungicide, (B) at least one specific insecticide and optionally (C) at least one azole, the use of this composition for improving plant health and a method for improving plant health by treating a plant, its propagules or the locus where the plant is growing or is to grow with the above composition.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for cultivating sugar cane comprising cutting the stalk of an adult sugar cane plant into pieces, placing the stalk pieces containing at least one node in a humid medium, removing the shoots emerged from the nodes of the stalk or of the stalk pieces, optionally removing the newly emerged shoots, where this step can be repeated one or several times, removing the newly formed shoots when they are 10 to 60 cm long in such a way that they comprise meristematic tissue, planting these shoots in a growth medium, growing seedlings from the shoots at a temperature of at least 15° C., and 10 to 120 days after planting the shoots, planting the seedlings grown from the shoots to the field if the growth medium is not a field, or, in case the growth medium is a field, exposing the seedlings obtained from the shoots to ambient conditions.

Abstract: The present invention relates to mixtures comprising, as active components ethephon and saflufenacil or cyclanilide and saflufenacil and to a method for defoliating, desiccating or ripening cultivated plants using such mixtures and to the use of ethephon and saflufenacil or of cyclanilide and saflufenacil for preparing such mixtures, and to compositions comprising these mixtures.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an agrochemical mixture for increasing the health of a plant, comprising as active compounds: 1) a fungicidal compound (I) selected from the group of strobilurins consisting of pyraclostrobin, azoxystrobin, dimoxystrobin, enestroburin, fluoxastrobin, kresoxim-methyl, metominostrobin, orysastrobin, picoxystrobin, pyribencarb, trifloxystrobin, pyrametostrobin, pyraoxystrobin, coumoxystrobin, coumethoxystrobin, triclopyricarb (=chlorodincarb), fenaminostrobin (=diclofenoxystrobin), flufenoxystrobin, 2-(2-(6-(3-chloro-2-methyl-phenoxy)-5-fluoro-pyrimidin-4-yloxy)-phenyl)-2-methoxyimino-N-methyl-acetamide, 3 -methoxy-2-(2-(N-(4-methoxy-phenyl)-cyclopropane-carboximidoylsulfanylmethyl)-phenyl)-acrylic acid methyl ester, methyl (2-chloro-5-[1-(3 -methylbenzyloxyimino)ethyl]benzyl)carbamate and 2-(2-(3-(2,6-dichlorophenyl)-1-methyl -allylideneaminooxymethyl)-phenyl)-2-methoxyimino-N methyl-acetamide; and 2) at least one herbicidal compound (II) selected from the group of imidazolin

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for increasing the health of a plant comprising the steps: 1) applying to plant propagation material a mixture comprising pyraclostrobin, fipronil and thiophanate-methyl; and 2) applying to the resulting plant, part of the plant and/or locus where the plant is growing, at any time during the reproductive growth stage, at least once pyraclostrobin or a mixture comprising pyraclostrobin and at least one insecticide or fungicide. In addition, the invention relates to a method, wherein the plant propagation material in step 1) and the resulting plant in step 2) are resistant to glyphosate. Furthermore, the invention relates to the use of a mixture comprising pyraclostrobin, fipronil and thiophanate-methyl as seed treatment in combination with pyraclostrobin as foliar treatment for increasing the health of a plant.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for cultivating sugar cane comprising planting sugar cane shoots in a growth medium, growing seedlings from the shoots at a temperature of at least 15° C. and 10-120 days after having planted the shoots planting the seedlings obtained therefrom into the field if the growth medium is not a field, or, in case the growth medium is a field, exposing the seedlings obtained from the shoots to ambient conditions, where the seedling, while growing, is treated with at least one strobilurin fungicide and/or at least one carboxamide fungicide and/or at least one GABA antagonist insecticide and/or at least one nicotinic receptor agonists/antagonist insecticide and/or at least one chloride channel activator insecticide.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of a mixture comprising, as active compounds 1) a herbicide (compound I) selected from the group of synthetic auxins consisting of (i) Phenoxy-carboxylic-acids selected from clomeprop, 2,4-D, 2,4-DB, dichlorprop, MCPA, MCPB and mecoprop; (ii) Benzoic acids selected from chloramben, dicamba and 2,3,6-TBA; (iii) Pyridine carboxylic acids selected from aminopyralid, clopyralid, fluoroxypyr, picloram and triclopyr; (iv) Quinoline carboxylic acids selected from quinclorac and quinmerac; (v) benazolin-ethyl; and (vi) amino-cylopyrachlor; and 2) a fungicide (compound II) selected from the group of strobilurines consisting of pyraclostrobin, orysastrobin, azoxystrobin, dimoxystrobin, enestroburin, fluoxastrobin, kresoxim-methyl, metominostrobin, picoxystrobin, pyribencarb, trifloxystrobin, 2-(2-(6-(3-chloro-2-methyl-phenoxy)-5-fluoro-pyrimidin-4-yloxy)-phenyl)-2-methoxyimino-N-methyl-acetamide, 3-methoxy-2-(2-(N-(4-methoxy-phenyl)-cyclopropane-carboximidoylsulfanylmethyl)-phen

Abstract: A method of inducing virus tolerance of plants which comprises treating the plants, the soil or seeds with an effective amount of a compound of the formula I.

Abstract: The present invention relates to method for increasing the level of free amino acids in storage tissues of perennial plants comprising the application of at least one strobilurin (compound A) selected from the group consisting of pyraclostrobin, orysastrobin, azoxystrobin, dimoxystrobin, enestroburin, fluoxastrobin, kresoxim-methyl, metominostrobin, orysastrobin, picoxystrobin, pyribencarb, trifloxystrobin, 2-(2-(6-(3-chloro-2-methyl-phenoxy)-5-fluoro-pyrimidin-4-yloxy)-phenyl)-2-methoxyimino-N-methyl-acetamide, 3-15 methoxy-2-(2-(N-(4-methoxy-phenyl)-cyclopropane-carboximidoylsulfanylmethyl)-phenyl)-acrylic acid methyl ester, methyl (2-chloro-5-[1-(3-methylbenzyloxyimino)-ethyl]benzyl)carbamate and 2-(2-(3-(2,6-dichlorophenyl)-1-methyl-allylideneaminooxymethyl)-phenyl)-2-methoxyimino-N-methyl-acetamide to the plant following the period of vegetative growth.

Abstract: The present invention relates to synergistic mixtures comprising, as active ingredients 1) an imidazolinone herbicide as compound (I) selected from the group consisting of imazamethabenz-methyl, imazamox, imazapic, imazapyr, imazaquin and imazethapyr; and 2) a fungicidal compound (II) of the formula (1) in which X is —C(?NOCH3)—CONHCH3, —C(?NOCH3)—COOCH3, —C(?CHOCH3)—COOCH3, —N(OCH3)—COOCH3 or —C(?NOCH3)—R, where R is 4H-[1,5,2]dioxazin-3-yl; Y is —O—, —OCH2—, —C(CH3)?NOCH2— or —CH?CH—C(CH3)?NOCH2—; Z is an aromatic ring system being unsubstituted or substituted, selected from phenyl, 2-methylphenyl, 3-trifluoromethylphenyl, 2,5-dimethylphenyl, 4-chlorophenyl, 2,6-dichlorophenyl, 4-chlorphenyl-1H-pyrazol-3-yl, 6-(2-cyanophenoxy)pyrimidin-4-yl, 6-(2-chlorophenoxy)-5-fluoro-pyrimidin-4-yl, 6-trifluoromethyl-pyridin-2-yl, 3-butyl-4-methyl-2-oxo-2H-chromen-7-yl and 3,4-dimethyl-2-oxo-2H-chromen-7-yl; in synergistically effective amounts.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for improving the plant health of at least one plant variety, which method comprises treating the plant and/or the locus where the plant is growing or is intended to grow with an amide compound of the formula I (compound I). The present invention also relates to a method for improving the plant health of at least one plant variety, which method comprises treating the plant and/or the locus where the plant is growing or is intended to grow with a mixture comprising an amide compound having the formula I (compound I) and at least one compound selected from the group consisting of a further fungicide II (compound II), a further fungicide III (compound IIb), an insecticide (compound III) and a herbicide (compound IV).

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for improving the plant health of at least one plant variety, which method comprises treating the plant propagules with an amide compound having the formula I (compound I). The present invention also N relates to a method for improving the plant health of at least one plant variety, which method comprises treating the plant propagules with a mixture comprising an amide compound having the formula I (compound I) and at least one compound selected from the group consisting of a further fungicide Il (compound II), a further fungicide III (compound lib) and an insecticide III (compound III).

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for the treatment of crops, comprising the steps of 1) preparation of a spraying solution by mixing of 1.1) at least one agrochemical composition, and 1.2) raw glycerol derived from the production of biodiesel; and 2) application of said spraying solution on the soil and/or crop and/or weeds and/or pests and/or their locality and/or habitat. Further on, it relates to the use of raw glycerol derived from the production of biodiesel in the preparation of a spraying solution which comprises at least one agrochemical composition. Additionally, a spraying solution is disclosed comprising water, raw glycerol derived from the production of biodiesel and an agrochemical composition.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition containing (A) at least one specific carbamate fungicide, (B) at least one specific insecticide and optionally (C) at least one azole, the use of this composition for improving plant health and a method for improving plant health by treating a plant, its propagules or the locus where the plant is growing or is to grow with the above composition.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for increasing the dry biomass of a plant by treating a plant, a part of the plant, the locus where the plant is growing or is intended to grow and/or the plant propagules with at least one compound of formula I as described in the claims and description. The invention also relates to a method for increasing the biomass of the fruit of a plant, the fruit containing 5 to 25% by weight of residual moisture, based on the total weight of the fruit, by treating a plant, a part of the plant, the locus where the plant is growing or is intended to grow and/or the plant propagules with at least one compound of formula I as described below. The invention further relates to a method for increasing the carbon dioxide sequestration from the atmosphere by treating a plant, a part of the plant, the locus where the plant is growing or is intended to grow and/or the plant propagules with at least one compound of formula I as described in the claims and description.

Abstract: A method of inducing virus tolerance of plants which comprises treating the plants, the soil or seeds with an effective amount of an amide compound of the formula (I), where Ar is a substituted phenyl, pyridyl or 5-membered heterocyclic ring; M is an optionally substituted thienyl or phenyl ring; Q is a direct bond, oxygen, sulfur, SO, SO2, C1C6-alkylene, C2-C6-alkenylene, a cyclo-propyleneor an anellated bicyclo[2.2.1]heptane ring; R1 is hydrogen, alkyl, haloalkyl, optionally substituted phenyl or optionally substituted cycloalkyl.

Abstract: A method of inducing virus tolerance of plants which comprises treating the plants, the soil or seeds with an effective amount of a combination of a compound of the formula (I) in which the variables have the meaning as set forth in the description, and a second active compound as defined in the description; which is taken up by the plants or seeds.