Abstract: Substituted (hetero)aryl compounds, process for their preparation, agents containing them, and their use as safenersCompounds of the formula I and their salts, as defined in claim 1, are suitable as safeners for protecting crop plants against the phytotoxic side-effects of herbicides.

Abstract: Co-application of auxin agonist herbicides such as dicamba and amino acid synthesis inhibitor herbicides such as ALS inhibitor herbicides reduces the incidence of phytotoxic effects, particularly in grassy crops.

Abstract: The disclosure herein relates to the use of certain amides of dichloroacetic acid and other compounds as safener/antidotal compounds to reduce the phytotoxicity to crop plants, especially corn, of imidazolinone-type herbicides alone or in admixture with other co-herbicidal compounds, e.g., .alpha.-haloacetamides.

Abstract: The invention relates to crop protection agents which comprise an active substance combination of herbicide and safener. The herbicides are selected from the group comprising the ALS inhibitors (ALS=acetolactate synthase) such as sulfonylureas, imidazolines, triazolopyrimidinesulfonamides, pyrimidyloxypyridinecarboxylic acid derivatives and pyrimidyloxybenzoic acid derivatives. The safeners are compounds of the formula I ##STR1## which are as defined in claim 1, where Z and Y are N or CH, it being possible for H to be replaced by X,X is H, Hal, haloalkyl or -alkoxy, alkyl, alkoxy, alkylthio, NO.sub.2, NH.sub.2, CN, alkylsulfonyl,A is alkylene or alkenylene,B is carboxyl or a derivative of the carboxyl group.The mixtures are mainly suitable for controlling harmful plants in the crops maize and cereals.

Abstract: There is provided a method for safening herbicides in crop plants by using substituted benzopyran or tetrahydronaphthalene compounds of formula I ##STR1## Further provided are compounds of formula II and compositions comprising a herbicide and an antidotally effective amount of a substituted benzopyran or tetrahydronaphthalene compound of formula I.

Abstract: A composition containing an effective amount of a herbicide and an aqueous ammoniacal ionic solution of metal alkanoates is disclosed. Alkanoates having from 2 to 6 carbon atoms are preferred, with acetates most preferred. Metals selected from the group consisting of boron, calcium, copper, iron, magnesium, manganese, molybdenum, potassium, sodium and zinc are preferred, with zinc particularly preferred. Both broadleaf and grass herbicides are preferred, with herbicides having an active ingredient selected from the group consisting of quizalofop, sodium salt of bentazon, sodium salt of acifluorfen, chlorimuron ethyl, lactofen, fluazifop-p-butyl, fenoxaprop-ethyl, methyl 3-[[[.sub.[4-methoxy-6-methyl-1,3,5-triazin-2-yl] amino]carbonyl]amino]sulfonyl]2-thiophenecarboxylate, 2-[1-.sub.ethoxyimon] butyl]-5-[2-.sub.[ethylthio] propyl]-3-hydroxy-2-cyclohexene-1-one, and ammonium salt of imazethapyre.

Abstract: Co-application of auxin agonist herbicides such as dicamba and amino acid synthesis inhibitor herbicides such as ALS inhibitor herbicides reduces the incidence of phytotoxic effects, particularly in grassy crops.

Abstract: Co-application of auxin agonist herbicides such as dicamba and amino acid synthesis inhibitor herbicides such as ALS inhibitor herbicides reduces the incidence of phytotoxic effects, particularly in grassy crops.

Abstract: There is provided a method for safening herbicides in cereal crop plants by using 5-aryloxy-1,2 -(disubstituted)benzene compounds of formula I ##STR1## Further provided are compositions comprising a 5-aryloxy-1,2-(disubstituted)benzene compound of formula I.

Abstract: A composition containing an effective amount of a herbicide and an aqueous ammoniacal ionic solution of metal alkanoates is disclosed. Alkanoates having from 2 to 6 carbon atoms are preferred, with acetates most preferred. Metals selected from the group consisting of boron, calcium, copper, iron, magnesium, manganese, molybdenum, potassium, sodium and zinc are preferred, with zinc particularly preferred. Both broadleaf and grass herbicides are preferred, with herbicides having an active ingredient selected from the group consisting of quizalofop, sodium salt of bentazon, sodium salt of acifluorfen, chlorimuron ethyl, lactofen, fluazifop-p-butyl, fenoxaprop-ethyl, methyl 3-[[[[4-methoxy-6-methyl-1,3,5-triazin-2-yl]amino]carbonyl]amino]sulfonyl] 2-thiophenecarboxylate, 2-[1-ethoxyimon]butyl]-5-[2-[ethylthio]propyl]-3-hydroxy-2-cyclohexene-1-o ne, and ammonium salt of imazethapyre. The composition of the present invention is applied postemergence to crops using conventional broadcast spray techniques.

Abstract: Mixtures of a herbicidally effective amount of a pyridylsulfonylurea of formula I, ##STR1## wherein R, R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and A are as defined in claim 1, and of a herbicide-antagonistically effective amount of a sulfamoylphenylurea of formula II, ##STR2## wherein R.sub.7 to R.sub.11 and A.sub.2 are as defined in claim 1, are very suitable for controlling weeds in crops of useful plants, especially maize and sugar cane.

Abstract: Disclosed are herbicidal concentrate formulation compositions having reduced grass crop plant phytotoxicity comprising certain sulfonamide or sulfonylurea herbicides in admixture with a non-herbicidal organic or inorganic acid or mixture thereof in an amount sufficient to insure that during the post-emergent agricultural uses thereof in water diluted form the pH of the mixture is below about 5; also disclosed is the preparation of said compositions, aqueous formulations of said concentrate and the use of said formulations.

Abstract: The disclosure herein relates to means for combatting the adverse phytotoxic action to crops arising from the interaction of various herbicidal compounds and biocidal compounds, e.g., insecticidal and/or fungicidal compounds. The means employed to reduce said interaction involves the safening action of various antidotal compounds.

Abstract: There is provided a method for safening herbicides in crop plants by using substituted benzopyran or tetrahydronaphthalene compounds of formula I ##STR1## Further provided are compounds of formula II and compositions comprising a herbicide and an antidotally effective amount of a substituted benzopyran or tetrahydronaphthalene compound of formula I.

Abstract: There is provided a method for inhibiting or preventing injury to a corn plant caused by the synergistic interaction of an organophosphate compound employed for the protection of the plant against attack by insects and nematodes and the use of an acetohydroxyacid synthase-inhibiting compound employed for the control of undesirable weed species in the locus of the plant comprising the application of an effective amount of naphthalic anhydride, the dipotassium salt of naphthalic acid, dicamba, 2,4-D, dichlormid, butyl 2-[(5-chloro-8-quinolyl)oxy]acetimidate, butyl [(5-chloro-8-quinolyl)oxy]acetate, 1-methylhexyl 2-[(5-chloro-8-quinolyl)oxy]acetate or 1-carbethoxyethyl-3,6-dichloro-2-methoxybenzoate. There is also provided a safened insecticidal composition.

Abstract: Acids, esters, amides and salts of benzhydryl compounds are antidotes for thiocarbamate and acetamide herbicides. These antidote compounds are especially effective to safen acetamide herbicides used to control grassy weeds and broadleaf weeds in rice, sorghum, corn and wheat.

Abstract: Disclosed are herbicidal concentrate formulation compositions having reduced crop plant phytotoxicity comprising N-(2,6-difluorophenyl)-5-methyl-1,2,4-triazolo(1,5-a) pyrimidine-2-sulfonamide or an amine salt thereof in admixture with one or more amine salts of 2,4-D; also disclosed is the preparation of said compositions and the pre- and post-emergent agricultural uses thereof in water diluted form.

Abstract: Disclosed are herbicidal concentrate formulation compositions having reduced grass crop plant phytotoxicity comprising certain sulfonamide or sulfonylurea herbicides in admixture with a herbicidal organic acid from the group consisting of clopyralid, 2,4-D, 2,4-DP, dicamba, dichlorprop-P, fluroxypyr MCPA, MCPP, mecoprop-P, picloram, triclopyr or mixtures of said acids; also disclosed is the preparation of said compositions and the pre- and post-emergent agricultural uses thereof in water diluted form.

Abstract: A phenoxycetic acid derivative of the formula: ##STR1## wherein R is a hydroxyl group, an alkoxy group, a group of the formula OM wherein M is an alkali metal ion, an alkaline earth metal ion, a transition metal ion, an ammonium ion or an organic ammonium ion, or a group of the formula NHR.sub.1 wherein R.sub.1 is a hydrogen atom, a hydroxyl group, an amino group, an allyloxy group or an ethoxycarboxylmethoxy group.

Abstract: The N-acylsulfamoylphenylureas of formula I below are suitable as counter-agents (antidotes or safeners) for protecting cultivated plants from the phytotoxic action of herbicides. Suitable crops are preferably cereals, soybeans, sorghum, maize and rice, and suitable herbicides are sulfonylureas, chloroacetanilides and aryloxyphenoxypropionic acid derivatives.The N-acylsulfamoylphenylureas have the formula I ##STR1## wherein A is a radical selected from the group ##STR2## R.sub.1 is C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkoxy or each of R.sub.1 and R.sub.2, independently of the other, is hydrogen, C.sub.1 -C.sub.8 alkyl, C.sub.3 -C.sub.8 cycloalkyl, C.sub.3 -C.sub.6 alkenyl, C.sub.3 -C.sub.6 alkynyl, ##STR3## or C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl substituted by C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkoxy or by ##STR4## or R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 together form a C.sub.4 -C.sub.6 alkylene bridge, or a C.sub.4 -C.sub.6 alkylene bridge interrupted by oxygen, sulfur, SO, SO.sub.2, NH or by --N(C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl)-, R.sub.3 is hydrogen or C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl, R.

Abstract: The disclosure herein relates to the use of certain amides of dichloroacetic acid and other compounds as safener/antidotal compounds to reduce the phytotoxicity to crop plants, especially corn, of benzoic acid-type herbicides alone or in admixture with other co-herbicidal compounds, e.g., .alpha.-haloacetamides.