Abstract: The present invention relates to novel compounds of the formula (I), in which W, X, Y, Z, G, A and t have the meanings given above, to a plurality of processes and intermediates for their preparation and to their use as pesticides and/or herbicides. Moreover, the invention relates to selective herbicidal compositions comprising, firstly, the spiroheterocyclic tetronic acid derivates and, secondly, a crop plant compatibility-improving compound. The present invention furthermore relates to increasing the activity of crop protection compositions comprising in particular phenyl-substituted bicyclooctane-1,3-dione derivates by adding ammonium salts or phosphonium salts and, if appropriate, penetrants, to the corresponding compositions, to processes for their preparation and to their use in crop protection as insecticides and/or acaricides and/or for preventing unwanted plant growth.

Abstract: This invention concerns the use of penoxsulam as an herbicide in alfalfa.

Abstract: The invention relates to a compound of formula (I), which is suitable for use as a herbicide wherein G is hydrogen or an agriculturally acceptable metal, sulfonium, ammonium or latentiating group; Q is a unsubstituted or substituted C3-C8 saturated or mono-unsaturated heterocyclyl containing at least one heteroatom selected from O, N and S, or Q is heteroaryl or substituted heteroaryl; m is 1, 2 or 3; and Het is an optionally substituted monocyclic or bicyclic heteroaromatic ring; and wherein the compound is optionally an agronomically acceptable salt thereof.

Abstract: Compounds of formula (I) are suitable for use as herbicides: wherein R is methyl, ethyl, vinyl, ethynyl or cyclopropyl, R1 is hydrogen, C1-C6alkyl, C1-C6haloalkyl, C3-C7cycloalkyl, C1-C6alkoxy, C1-C6haloalkoxy, vinyl, propenyl, ethynyl, propynyl, halogen, or optionally substituted phenyl, R2 is methyl, ethyl, vinyl, ethynyl or methoxy, R3 and R4 are hydrogen or together form a double bond, A is C3-C7cycloalkyl which is unsubstituted or substituted once or twice by C1-C6alkyl, C1-C6haloalkyl, C1-C6alkoxy, C1-C6alkylcarbonyloxy, C2-C6alkenyl, ?O or ?N—R10, or A is cyclohexyl substituted once, at the 4-position, by one (C3-C6cycloalkyl)methoxy, C3-C6cycloalkyloxy, C2-C5alkenyl-CH2-oxy, or benzyloxy substituent, or A is decahydro-1-naphthyl or decahydro-2-naphthyl, or A is optionally substituted phenyl, and G is hydrogen or an agriculturally acceptable metal, sulfonium, ammonium or a latentiating group.

Abstract: Aqueous herbicidal capsule suspensions of acetochlor, containing microcapsules of defined size, shell wall composition, and thickness which contain acetochlor and reduced levels of herbicide safener are provided. The aqueous herbicidal capsule suspensions of acetochlor provide commercially acceptable weed control and selectivity in corn.

Abstract: The present invention relates to benzoxazinones of the general formula (I) wherein the variables are defined according to the description, processes and intermediates for preparing the benzoxazinones of the formula (I), compositions comprising them and their use as herbicides, i.e. for controlling harmful plants, and also a method for controlling unwanted vegetation which comprises allowing a herbicidal effective amount of at least one benzoxazinones of the formula (I) to act on plants, their seed and/or their habitat.

Abstract: A compound selected from a composition comprising an auxin, an auxin precursor, an auxin metabolite or a derivative of said auxin, auxin precursor or auxin metabolite and acetaminophen or a derivative thereof for use as a plant safener.

Abstract: Compounds of the formula (I) or salts thereof in which R1 is carboxyl or a derivative of a carboxyl group, preferably a radical of the formula —CN, —C(?X)—Y—R or —C(?X)-Het, in which X is O, S or NRa or N—NRaRb, Y is O, S, NRc or NRc—NRdRe, R is H, a (subst.) hydrocarbon radical (HR) or acyl, and Het is an aliphatic nitrogen heterocycle, where each of the radicals Ra, Rb, Rc, Rd and Re is as defined for R or a radical of the formula —OR*, where R* is as defined for R, R2 is H or (subst.) HR or a heterocyclic radical, or, if Z?O or S, also an acyl radical, (R3)n are n radicals R3, as defined in claim 1, Z is a group of the formula O or S(O)x, where x=0, 1 or 2, and n is an integer 0, 1, 2, 3 or 4, as safeners for crop plants or useful plants against phytotoxic actions of agrochemicals, preferably as safeners against the action of pesticides, such as herbicides, in these plants.

Abstract: The invention relates to derivatives of (1-cyanocyclopropyl)phenylphosphinic acid of the formula (I) and to salts thereof, of the formula (II), for enhancing stress tolerance in plants to abiotic stress, preferably to drought stress, especially for enhancing plant growth and/or for increasing plant yield.

Abstract: The present invention relates to herbicidal compositions comprising a) a herbicide compound A which is selected from ?/-1-naphthylphthalamic acid (naptalam), the salts and esters thereof; and b) a herbicide compound B which is selected from b.1 3,6-dichloro-2-methoxybenzoic acid (dicamba), the salts and esters thereof; b.2 quinolinecarboxylic acid herbicides; b.3 pyridinecarboxylic acid herbicides; and b.4 aminocyclopyrachlor, the salts and esters thereof. The present invention also relates to the use of these compositions for controlling undesirable vegetation, in particular in crops, in turf or pasture, in rangeland, in fallow, or in forestry.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for controlling weeds in turf without causing significant injury to the turfgrass, using a composition comprising a herbicidally effective amount of an HPPD inhibitor, and a safener.

Abstract: The present invention relates to novel oxaspirocyclic spirophenyl-substituted tetramic acid and tetronic acid derivatives of the formula (I) in which W, X, Y, Z, A, B, D, Q1, Q2, and G have the meanings given above, to a plurality of processes for their preparation and to their use as pesticides and/or herbicides. The invention also provides selective herbicidal compositions comprising, firstly, oxaspirocyclic spirophenyl-substituted tetramic acid and tetronic acid derivatives and, secondly, a crop plant compatibility-improving compound. The invention furthermore relates to increasing the activity of crop protection compositions comprising compounds of the formula (I) by addition of ammonium salts or phosphonium salts and, if appropriate, penetrants.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a liquid formulation comprising a) agrochemically active salts of 2-iodo-N-[(4-methoxy-6-methyl-1,3,5-triazin-2-yl)carbamoyl]benzenesulfonamide, and b) one or more non-polar organic solvents selected from the group of the C6-C16-aromatics mixture the Solvesso series (Exxon) and/or the Caromax series (Carless), and also ?optionally further non-polar organic solvents. The liquid formulation is suitable for crop protection.

Abstract: The invention relates to novel compounds of the formula (I) in which W, X, Y, Z, A and G have the meanings given above, to a plurality of processes and intermediates for their preparation and to their use as pesticides and/or herbicides, and also to selective herbicidal compositions comprising, firstly, the cis-alkoxyspirocyclic biphenyl-substituted tetramic acid derivatives of the formula (I) and, secondly, at least one crop plant compatibility-improving compound. The invention relates furthermore to increasing the activity of crop protection compositions comprising compounds of the formula (I) by adding ammonium or phosphonium salts and, if appropriate, penetrants.

Abstract: A liquid herbicidal composition containing pinoxaden and an adjuvant, where the adjuvant is a built-in adjuvant consisting of a trisester of phosphoric acid with aliphatic or aromatic alcohols and/or a bis-ester of alkyl phosphonic acids with aliphatic or aromatic alcohols.

Abstract: A selective herbicidal composition for controlling grasses and weeds in crops of cultivated plants, comprising a) a herbicidally effective amount of a compound of formula I wherein the substituents are defined as given in claim 1; b) a herbicidally synergistic amount of at least one herbicide selected from the classes of phenoxy-phenoxypropionic acids, hydroxylamines, sulfonylureas, imidazolinones, pyrimidines, triazines, ureas, PPO, chloroacetanilides, phenoxyacetic acids, triazinones, dinitroanilines, azinones, carbamates, oxyacetamides, thiolcarbamates, azole-ureas, benzoic acids, anilides, nitriles, triones and sulfonamides, as well as from the herbicides amitrol, benfuresate, bentazone, cinmethylin, clomazone, chlopyralid, difenzoquat, dithiopyr, ethofumesate, flurochloridone, indanofane, isoxaben, oxaziclomefone, pyridate, pyridafol, quinchlorac, quinmerac, tridiphane and flamprop; and optionally c) to antagonise the herbicide, an antidotally effective amount of a safener selected from clo

Abstract: The present invention relates to a herbicide/safener combination comprising: (A) one or more herbicides from the group consisting of 2-iodo-N-[(4-methoxy-6-methyl-1,3,5-triazin-2-yl)carbamoyl]benzenesulfonamide and compounds of the general formula (I) and (B) one or more safeners, and to their use for controlling harmful plants.

Abstract: Disclosed are compounds of Formula 1, including N-oxides, and salts thereof, wherein W is O or NR7, n is 0 or 1, and R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7 and m are as defined in the disclosure. Also disclosed are compositions containing the compounds of Formula 1 and methods for controlling undesired vegetation comprising contacting the undesired vegetation or its environment with an effective amount of a compound or a composition of the invention. Also disclosed are mixtures and compositions comprising a herbicidally effective amount of a compound of Formula 1 and an effective amount of another herbicide or herbicide safener.

Abstract: A composition comprising (A) one or more compounds of the formula (I), their N-oxides or their salts, in which the individual indices and definitions have the meaning defined in the description and (B) one or more safeners is described.

Abstract: A composition comprising (A) one or more compounds of the formula (I), their N-oxides or their salts, in which the individual indices and radicals have the meaning defined in the description and (B) one or more safeners is described.

Abstract: Herbicidal injury caused by 6-(trisubstituted phenyl)-4-amino-2-pyridinecarboxylates in wheat and barley is reduced with the use of AD67 (MON 4660), benoxacor, 2-CBSU, daimuron, dichlormid, dicyclonon (BAS 145 138H), fenchlorazole-ethyl, fenclorim, fluxofenim, furilazole (MON 13900), glyphosate, isoxadifen-ethyl, mefenpyr-diethyl, naphthalic anhydride, oxabetrinil and mixtures thereof.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a herbicide/safener combination comprising components (A) and (B), where (A) denotes one or more compounds or salts thereof from the group described by the general formula (I): in which R1 is halogen, preferably fluorine or chlorine, R2 is hydrogen and R3 is hydroxyl or R2 and R3 together with the carbon atom to which they are attached are a carbonyl group C?O and R4 is hydrogen or methyl; and (B) is one or more compounds from the group of the safeners.

Abstract: The invention relates to novel selective herbicidal compositions comprising an active compound combination consisting of substituted arylsulphonylaminocarbonyl-triazolinones and/or salts thereof and at least one compound which improves crop plant compatibility from the following group of compounds of the general formula (II), in which n, m, X, Y and Z are as defined in the disclosure, it being possible to use the compositions with particularly good results for the selective control of weeds in various crops of useful plants. The invention further relates to the use of these compositions for controlling undesirable vegetation.

Abstract: This invention relates to the use of lactamide compounds of formula (I): CH3CH(OH)C(?O)NR1R2, where R1 and R2 are each independently hydrogen; or C1-6 alkyl, C2-6 alkenyl or C3-6 cycloalkyl, each of which is optionally substituted by up to three substituents independently selected from phenyl, hydroxy, C1-5 alkoxy, morpholinyl and NR3R4 where R3 and R4 are each independently C1-3 alkyl; or phenyl optionally substituted by up to three substituents independently selected from C1-3 alkyl; or R1 and R2 together with the nitrogen atom to which they are attached form a morpholinyl, pyrrolidinyl, piperidinyl or azepanyl ring, each of which is optionally substituted by up to three substituents independently selected from C1-3 alkyl, in formulations to reduce the toxicity associated with other formulation components; to the use of certain lactamide compounds as solvents, especially in formulations, particularly in agrochemical formulations and in environmentally friendly formulations; to novel lactamide compounds; and

Abstract: Herbicidal compositions are described that comprise active substances from the group of the benzoylcyclohexanediones and also safeners. These herbicidal composition are especially suitable for use against weed plants in crop plant cultures.

Abstract: A herbicidal composition that, in addition to comprising customary inert formulation adjuvants, comprises a) a compound of formula I ?wherein the substituents are as defined in claim 1, and b) a synergistically effective amount of one or more compounds of formulae 2.1 to 2.51. The compositions according to the invention may also comprise a safener.

Abstract: Combinations of herbicidal aromatic carboxylic acids and safeners The invention relates to a herbicide-safener combination, which comprises: (A) one or more herbicidal auxin type of aromatic carboxylic acids or salts thereof, for example dicamba, chloramben or 2,3,6-trichlorobenzoic acid (2,3,6-TBA), and (B) one or more safeners selected from the group consisting of: (B1) active compounds of the heterocyclic carboxylic acid type and their derivatives, preferably their esters or salts, selected from the group consisting of (B1.1) compounds of the phenylpyrazolin-3-carboxylic acid type, (B1.2) derivatives of the phenylpyrazolecarboxylic acid type, (B1.3) compounds of the triazolecarboxylic acid type, (B1.4) compounds of the 5-benzyl-, 5-phenyl- or 5,5-diphenyl-2-isoxazoline-3-carboxylic acid type, (B1.5) flurazole and (B1.

Abstract: The present invention relates to protection of plants from unintended phytotoxic injury due to application of a herbicide to reduce competition for the plant of interest. A preferred herbicide used in the context of the present invention is clomazone. The unintended phytotoxic injury is avoided by application of a safening-effective amount of one or more of the compounds described by formula (I) wherein T and T1 are independently selected from the group of hydrogen, alkyl, haloalkyl, alkoxyalkyl, alkenyl, and alkynyl; U is oxygen or sulfur, and; V, W, X, Y, and Z are independently selected from the group of hydrogen, halogen, alkyl, haloalkyl, and alkoxy. The present invention is preferably used for growing corn, wheat, and cotton in the presence of the otherwise phytoxic effects of clomazone, for example.

Abstract: There are described herbicidal compositions which comprise herbicidal compounds of formula (I) and one or more compounds of the formulae (II) to (V) which act as safener.

Abstract: Herbicidal compositions comprising at least one herbicidally active compound of the formula (I) and at least one crop-plant-protecting compound of the formula (II) as safener are described.

Abstract: The present invention relates to novel herbicidally active 3-hydroxy-4-aryl-5-oxopyrazoline derivatives, to processes for their preparation, to compositions which comprise these compounds and may additionally comprise safeners, and to the use of these compounds as herbicides for controlling weeds and grasses, in particular in crops of useful plants.

Abstract: The invention relates to a herbicidal composition comprising a herbicidally acceptable carrier and/or surface active agent and, as active ingredient, a synergistically effective amount of

Abstract: Microencapsulated compositions containing haloacetanilide herbicides, i.e., acetochlor, are produced by microencapsulation process. The microencapsulated composition performs comparably to nonencapsulated compositions of the same herbicide applied at the same application rates.

Abstract: Herbicidal compositions containing tetrazolinone compounds and antidotal compounds therefor to reduce injury to various crops, particularly corn, wheat, rice and soya, from the phytotoxic effects of tetrazolinone herbicides when used alone or in combination with additional pesticidally active ingredients. Methods for reducing phytotoxicity or injury to crop plants, particularly corn and soya crops, due to tetrazolinone herbicides are also described.

Abstract: Novel N-acylsulfonamides, novel mixtures of herbicides and antidotes, and their use Safeners against phytotoxic side effects of pesticides in crop plants are compounds of the formula (I) and salts thereof where R1 is hydrogen, a hydrocarbon radical, a hydrocarbonoxy radical, a hydrocarbonthio radical or a heterocyclyl radical, each of the last-mentioned 4 radicals being unsubstituted or substituted by one or more identical or different radicals selected from the group consisting of halogen, cyano, nitro, amino, hydroxyl, carboxyl, formyl, carboxamide, sulfonamide and radicals of the formula —Za—Ra R2 is hydrogen or (C1-C4)-alkyl or R1 and R2 together with the group of the formula —CO—N— are the radical of a 3- to 8-membered saturated or unsaturated ring and R3 to R5, n and m are as defined in claim 1. The compounds can be prepared by the process of claim 8.

Abstract: A selective herbicidal composition for controlling grasses and weeds in crops of cultivated plants, comprising a) a herbicidally effective amount of a herbicide of formula I ##STR1## and b) to antagonise the herbicide, an antidotally effective amount of a safener selected from the group of the compounds of formula 1.01 (CGA 185,072), 2.01, 2.05, 3.03, 4.001, 5.006 (benoxacor), and 6.02 (fluxofenim).

Abstract: Microcapsules containing a suspension of a soild, biologically active compound in an organic, water-immiscible liquid and processes for their preparation.

Abstract: The disclosure herein relates to the use of a variety of antidotal compounds to safen crop plants from the phytotoxicity of azolopyrimidine sulfonamide herbicides.

Abstract: Novel herbicidal active compound combinations consisting of (a) a heteroaryloxy- acetamide of the formula (I) ##STR1## in which Het represents thiadiazolyl which is substituted by halogen or by C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkyl or phenyl, each of which is optionally substituted by halogen, andAr represents phenyl which is optionally substituted by halogen, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkyl or C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -halogenoalkyl, and (b) one or more compounds from a second group of herbicides (according to the description) and/or a compound which improves the tolerance by crop plants (according to the description) exhibit, at certain weight ratios, synergistic effects and/or particularly good tolerance by crop plants with high herbicidal activity.

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: This invention pertains to compositions comprising herbicidal phosphosulfonates, having the general formula ##STR1## wherein Y is an optionally substituted phenyl, naphthyl, benzyl, a (C.sub.5 -C.sub.8)cycloalkyl, a 5-membered heteroaromatic ring, a 6-membered heteraromatic ring, a fused 5,6-membered heteroaromatic ring, or a fused 6,6-membered heteroaromatic ring;X is an oxygen or a sulfur atom; andR.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are each independently selected from substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, alkoxy, alkylthio, alkenyloxy, alkynyloxy, haloalkoxy, cyanoalkoxy, alkoxyalkoxy, cycloalkyloxy, cycloalkylalkoxy, alkylideneiminooxy, chloro, amino, phenyl or phenoxy; or R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are both alkoxy, taken together with the phosphorus atom to form a 6-membered oxygen-containing ring; anddichloroacetamide safeners having the general formula ##STR2## wherein R.sup.a and R.sup.b are each independently selected from alkyl, alkenyl, or alkyl or alkenyl substituted with halo, or R.sup.a and R.sup.

Abstract: Herbicidal compositions containing 4-benzoylisoxazole compounds and antidotal compounds therefor to reduce injury to various crops, particularly corn, from the phytotoxic effects of 4-benzoylisoxazole herbicides when used alone or in combination with additional pesticidally active ingredients. Methods for reducing phytotoxicity or injury to crop plants, particularly corn crops, due to 4-benzoylisoxazole herbicides are also described.

Abstract: A herbicidal composition having a reduced phytotoxicity which comprises at least one compound selected from 3-substituted phenylpyrazole derivatives such as ET-751 represented by the general formula (I): ##STR1## (wherein R is a substituent such as an alkoxy group, each of R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 is a substituent such as a lower alkyl group, Y is an oxygen atom or the like, and each of X.sup.1 and X.sup.2 is a halogen atom) and at least one specific anionic surfactant.

Abstract: Mixtures of a herbicidally effective amount of a haloacetamide of formula I ##STR1## and, to antagonize the herbicide, an antidotally effective amount of a compound of formula IIR--CHYCl (II)wherein R is defined herein, suitable for controlling weeds in crops of cultivated plants, particularly maize.

Abstract: A selective herbicidal composition for the control of grasses and weeds in crops of useful plants comprisesa) a herbicidally effective amount of a pyrimidine of formula I ##STR1## wherein the substituents are defined in claim 1 and b) as safener a herbicide-antagonistically effective amount of an N-acylsulfamoylphenylurea of formula IIb ##STR2## wherein the substituents are defined in claim 1.

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: Mixtures comprising a herbicidally effective amount of a pyridylsulfonylurea of formula I ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3 and A are as defined in claim 1, and a herbicide-antagonistically effective amount of a sulfamoylphenylurea of formula II ##STR2## wherein R.sub.12 to R.sub.16 and A.sub.2 are as defined in claim 1, are very suitable for the control of weeds in crops of useful plants, especially maize.

Abstract: This invention embodies compositions comprising herbicidally effective compounds corresponding to the formula ##STR1## in which R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are independently methyl or ethyl,X is H, methyl, chlorine, bromine, fluorine;Y is chlorine, bromine, fluorine; andn is 0, 1 or 2and a non-phytotoxic antidotally effective amount of an antidote therefor selected from the group of amides of haloalkanoic acids, including oxazolidines and thiazolidines, aromatic oxime derivatives, thiazole carboxylic acids and derivatives, substituted phenylpyrimidines, 2-(dichloroacetyl)-2-methyl-1,3-dioxolane and 2-(dichloromethyl)-2-thiazoline.