Phosphorus Containing Active Ingredient Wherein The Phosphorus Is Other Than Solely As Part Of An Inorganic Ion In An Addition Salt Patents (Class 504/127)
  • Publication number: 20130260996
    Abstract: Aqueous herbicide concentrates containing an auxinic herbicide, an aromatic ester, and, optionally, a surfactant and uses of aqueous herbicide spray mixtures incorporating such concentrates are described. The aqueous herbicide concentrates described herein include from 20 to 60 weight percent of a water soluble salt of an auxinic herbicide, from 0.1 to 20 weight percent of an aromatic ester, and, optionally, from 0 to 10 weight percent of a surfactant. The aqueous herbicide concentrate is a transparent, homogeneous liquid that forms an emulsion upon dilution into a spray solution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2013
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Applicant: DOW AGROSCIENCES LLC
    Inventors: Stephen L. Wilson, Joseph C. Hercamp
  • Publication number: 20130260995
    Abstract: This invention is related to methods for improving plant height and/or yield of crop plants that are resistant to herbicide 2,4-D by treating the plants with 2,4-D at application rates which are not harmful to the plants. In particular, provided is a method using 2,4-D application to increase yield of crop plants that express an AAD-12 gene for 2,4-D resistance. Soybeans are a preferred crop for use according to the subject invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Inventors: Thomas Hoffman, Yunxing Cory Cui, Malcolm Obourn, Dawn Marle Parkhurst, Barry Wiggins, Michael Vercauteren, Terence Anthony Walsh
  • Publication number: 20130252812
    Abstract: Tankmix additive concentrates containing a phosphate ester and/or polymeric surfactant and a triglyceride fatty acid ester and the use of aqueous herbicide spray mixtures incorporating such tankmix additive concentrates are described. The tankmix additive concentrates described herein include from 1 to 50 weight percent of a phosphate ester surfactant, a polymeric surfactant, or mixtures thereof, and from 1 to 90 weight percent of a triglyceride fatty acid ester. The tankmix additive concentrates form a stable emulsion upon dilution into a pesticide spray mixture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Applicant: Dow AgroSciences LLC
    Inventors: Hui Shao, Holger Tank
  • Publication number: 20130244875
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods and compositions for improving plant health. In particular, application of dicamba or another substrate of DMO, or metabolites thereof including DCSA, to a plant confers tolerance to, or defense against, abiotic or biotic stresses such as oxidative stress including herbicide application, and plant disease, and enhances crop yield. Such application may be in combination with the application of another herbicide such as glyphosate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2012
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Inventors: Paul C.C. Feng, Sio-Wai Hoi
  • Patent number: 8536095
    Abstract: Efficacious herbicidal compositions comprising a derivatized saccharide surfactant and an amine oxide surfactant are described. The compositions are characterized as having low toxicity and are readily biodegradable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventors: Simone Seifert-Higgins, William Abraham, Christopher I. Bates
  • Patent number: 8536094
    Abstract: Herbicide combinations (A)+(B), if appropriate in the presence of safeners, with an effective content of (A) broad-spectrum herbicides from the group (A1) glufosinate (salts) and related compounds (A2) glyphosate (salts) and related compounds such as sulfosate, (A3) imidazolinones such as imazethapyr, imazapyr, imazaquin, imazamox or their salts and (A4) herbicidal azoles from the group of the protoporphyrinogen oxidase inhibitors (PPO inhibitors) and (B) one or more herbicides from the group consisting of (B0) one or more structurally different herbicides from the abovementioned group (A) or (B1) foliar- and soil-acting herbicides effective against selectively in rice monocotyledonous and dicotyledonous harmful plants (residual action) or (B2) herbicides which are effective selectively in rice against dicotyledonous harmful plants and/or sedges, and/or (B3) foliar-acting herbicides which are effective selectively in rice against monocotyledonous harmful plants, and/or (B4) foliar- and soil-acting herbi
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: Bayer Intellectual Property GmbH
    Inventors: Erwin Hacker, Hermann Bieringer, Lothar Willms
  • Publication number: 20130237419
    Abstract: Spray drift during the application of an aqueous mixture of an auxinic herbicide is reduced by incorporating into a spray mixture an organic colloid-stabilized oil-in-water emulsion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2013
    Publication date: September 12, 2013
    Applicant: Dow AgroSciences LLC
    Inventors: Hui Shao, Hong Zhang, Holger Tank, Mei Li, Kuide Qin, Lei Liu, Stephen L. Wilson
  • Patent number: 8530386
    Abstract: Suitable for controlling harmful plants in sugar beet crops composed of tolerant or resistant mutants or transgenic sugar beet plants are herbicide combinations (A)+(B), if appropriate in the presence of safeners, with an effective content of (A) broad-spectrum herbicides from the group (A1) glufosinate (salts) and related compounds, (A2) glyphosate (salts) and related compounds such as sulfosate and (A3) imidazolinones or their salts and (B) herbicides from the group consisting of (B0) one or more structurally different herbicides from the abovementioned group (A) or (B1) foliar- and predominantly soil-acting herbicides which are active against monocotyledonous and dicotyledonous harmful plants, or (B2) herbicides which are active predominantly against dicotyledonous harmful plants, and (B3) herbicides which are predominantly foliar-acting and which can be employed against monocotyledonous harmful plants, or (B4) herbicides which are both foliar- and soil-acting and which can be employed against monoc
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Bayer Intellectual Property GmbH
    Inventors: Erwin Hacker, Hermann Stuebler, Hermann Bieringer, Lothar Willms
  • Patent number: 8530385
    Abstract: A high strength herbicidal composition including: water; glyphosate, predominantly in the form of a combination of dimethylamine salt and potassium salt, in solution in the water in an amount of about 350 grams or greater of acid equivalent per liter of the composition, wherein the composition is formulated to include dimethylamine in an amount to form a salt with about 5% or greater, by weight, of total glyphosate and to include potassium in an amount to form a salt with a percentage of total glyphosate so that the combined sum of glyphosate in dimethylamine and potassium salts is at least 45% of total glyphosate; and optionally, one or more surfactants and/or one or more humectants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Donaghys Industries Limited
    Inventors: Karen Yeritsyan, Timothy Allen Jenkins
  • Patent number: 8524636
    Abstract: A synergistic antimicrobial composition containing a glyphosate compound and 3-iodo-2-propynyl-butylcarbamate is provided. Also provided is a method of inhibiting the growth of or controlling the growth of microorganisms in a building material by adding such a synergistic antimicrobial composition. Also provided is a coating composition containing such a synergistic antimicrobial composition, and a dry film made from such a coating composition. Also provided is a method of making zinc glyphosate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Emerentiana Sianawati, Sudhakar Balijepalli
  • Publication number: 20130225405
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition comprising a first salt, which contains a first anionic pesticide (A1) and a cationic polyamine (B), and a second salt, which contains a second anionic pesticide (A2) and a cationic polyamine (B), wherein both salts contain the same cationic polyamine (B), and wherein the cationic polyamine comprises at least two amino groups. It further relates to a method for preparing said comprising the step of contacting the first salt and the second salt. In addition, the invention relates to a method of combating harmful insects and/or phytopathogenic fungi, which comprises contacting plants, seed, soil or habitat of plants in or on which the harmful insects and/or phytopathogenic fungi are growing or may grow, plants, seed or soil to be protected from attack or infestation by said harmful insects and/or phytopathogenic fungi with an effective amount of said composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2011
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Inventors: Adam Hixson, Steven Bowe, Wen Xu
  • Publication number: 20130217576
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods and compositions for improving plant health. In particular, application of dicamba or another substrate of DMO, or metabolites thereof including DCSA, to a plant confers tolerance to, or defense against, abiotic or biotic stresses such as oxidative stress including herbicide application, and plant disease, and enhances crop yield. Such application may be in combination with the application of another herbicide such as glyphosate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2012
    Publication date: August 22, 2013
    Inventor: Paul C. C. Feng
  • Patent number: 8507409
    Abstract: A synergistic antimicrobial composition containing a glyphosate compound and diiodomethyl-p-tolylsulfone is provided. Also provided is a method of inhibiting the growth of or controlling the growth of microorganisms in a building material by adding such a synergistic antimicrobial composition. Also provided is a coating composition containing such a synergistic antimicrobial composition, and a dry film made from such a coating composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Emerentiana Sianawati, Sudhakar Balijepalli
  • Patent number: 8507408
    Abstract: A synergistic antimicrobial composition containing a glyphosate compound and one of 4,5-dichloro-2-n-octyl-4-isothiazolin-3-one or 2-n-octly-4-isothiazolin-3-one or N-Butyl-1,2-benzisothiazolin-3-one is provided. Also provided is a method of inhibiting the growth of or controlling the growth of microorganisms in a building material by adding such a synergistic antimicrobial composition. Also provided is a coating composition containing such a synergistic antimicrobial composition, and a dry film made from such a coating composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Emerentiana Sianawati, Sudhakar Balijepalli
  • Patent number: 8492309
    Abstract: A process for preparing an aqueous concentrate glyphosate salt composition comprises (i) neutralizing glyphosate acid with potassium hydroxide and a minor amount of a low molecular weight organic amine in presence of water to produce a glyphosate salt solution having a pH of about 4.8 to about 5.0, where the neutralizing operation comprises a first neutralization step in which a slurry or glyphosate salt solution having a pH of about 4.4 to about 4.7 is produced and a second neutralization step in which the pH is adjusted to about 4.8 to about 5.0; and (ii) after the first neutralization step and before, during or after the second neutralization step, adding further water if necessary and optionally at least one surfactant to produce a final composition having a total glyphosate a.e. concentration not less than about 360 g/l.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventors: Daniel R. Wright, John W. Hemminghaus, David R. Eaton
  • Patent number: 8486862
    Abstract: The compatibility of aqueous herbicide solutions containing water soluble salts of 2,4-D and glyphosate in the presence of inorganic cations is improved by the addition of polyethylenimine or polyvinylamine crystallization inhibitors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: Dow AgroSciences LLC
    Inventors: Lei Liu, Hong Zhang, Alex Kennedy, Holger Tank, Mei Li, Kuide Qin, David G. Ouse, Stephen L. Wilson, Brandon Matthew Downer
  • Patent number: 8481458
    Abstract: The invention relates to compositions useful in the field of agricultural chemistry and methods for making and using the compositions. The compositions include (i) a permeabilizing agent, and (ii) a active component, for example, a pesticide or plant growth regulator, and can include additional components as well, for example, flow agents. The permeabilizing agent, or a mixture of permeabilizing agents, acts as an adjuvant to the active component or chemicals to improve the degree of efficacy of the active component or speed of action of the active component. The permeabilizing agents are typically one or more chelating agents, cationic materials, anionic materials, and zwitterionic materials, and include polyphosphate salts. Examples of cationic materials include polyamines such as ethylenediamine and quaternary ammonium salts. The active components can be pesticides, herbicides, insecticides, fungicides, virucides, bacteriocides, and acaricides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: CJB Industries
    Inventor: David Miles
  • Publication number: 20130172185
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of increasing yield of a plant. This method involves applying to a plant and/or area of cultivation thiophanate methyl and an isolated hypersensitive response elicitor protein or polypeptide fragment, wherein said applying is carried out under conditions effective to induce a synergistic yield from the plant. The present invention also relates to a composition comprising a liquid or solid carrier, thiophanate methyl, and an isolated hypersensitive response elicitor protein or polypeptide fragment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2012
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: PLANT HEALTHCARE, INC.
    Inventor: PLANT HEALTHCARE, INC.
  • Publication number: 20130157854
    Abstract: Methods for producing plants with multiple herbicide resistance are provided, in which the plants contain at least two basic genes, the first basic gene comprising a coding sequence encoding a mutated HPPD, and the second basic gene encoding an enzyme conferring on plants tolerance to a herbicide. Methods for herbicidal treatment of plants are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2013
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Applicant: Bayer S.A.S.
    Inventor: Bayer S.A.S.
  • Patent number: 8461077
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel active substance combinations which comprise firstly a known herbicide selected from among glyphosate derivatives, cyclohexenone oximes, imidazolinone derivatives, dinitroaniline derivatives, amide derivatives and quaternary ammonium salts, and at least one fungicidal active substance, and which are suitable for controlling undesirable phytopathogenic fungi, in particular soybean rust.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Christine Habicher, Michael Merk, Egon Haden
  • Publication number: 20130143741
    Abstract: Improved aqueous herbicidal compositions comprising at least one water-soluble herbicide and a gel forming agent are provided. The compositions are generally characterized as pseudoplastic, elastic and having a relatively high stationary viscosity. The compositions provide enhanced foliar retention and resistance to drying thereby allowing for improved uptake of the herbicide into the plants and/or translocation within the plant in order to more effectively kill the plants at reduced application rates in kilograms of herbicide per hectare, even in the absence of a surfactant. Methods for confined application of the compositions of the invention to control the growth of unwanted plants are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2011
    Publication date: June 6, 2013
    Applicant: MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC
    Inventors: Daniel R. Wright, Xavier Belvaux, Brian Midgley, William Abraham
  • Patent number: 8440593
    Abstract: A high strength herbicidal composition including water; glyphosate, predominantly in the form of a combination of triethanolamine salt and potassium salt in solution in the water in an amount of about 350 grams or greater of acid equivalent per liter of the composition wherein the composition is formulated to include triethanolamine in an amount to form a salt with about 10% or greater, by weight, of total glyphosate and to include potassium in an amount to form a salt with a percentage of total glyphosate so that the combined sum of glyphosate in triethanolamine and potassium salts is more than 50% of total glyphosate; and optionally, one or more surfactants and/or one or more humectants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Donaghys Industries Limited
    Inventor: Karen Yeritsyan
  • Patent number: 8440590
    Abstract: A method for controlling asian soybean rust comprising (?) applying a pesticidal composition (A) to a glyphosate tolerant soybean plant propagation material, and (?) applying a pesticidal composition (B) to the resulting soybean plant, part of plant and/or the locus thereof one or more times: i) before emergence, ii) after emergence, or iii) both (i) and (ii), provided that composition (A) comprises one or more of flutriafol, triticonazole, tebuconazole, ipconazole, epoxyconazole, orysastrobin, prothioconazole fluoxastrobin, azoxystrobin, furametpyr, cyproconazole, a compound of formula (I) and a compound of formula (B), and pesticide composition (B) comprises glyphosate; wherein compound (I) is represented by or a tautomer of such a compound, and compound (B) is represented by formula or a tautomer of such a compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Syngenta Crop Protection LLC
    Inventors: Michael Oostendorp, Franz Brandl, Sergio Paiva, Nestor Gabriel Da Silva, Ronald Zeun, Ulrich Johannes Haas
  • Publication number: 20130116120
    Abstract: The present invention relates to processes for preparation of alkoxylated alkyl amines or alkoxylated alkyl ether amines with peaked distribution, surfactants comprising alkoxylated alkyl amines or alkoxylated alkyl ether amines with peaked distribution, and stable herbicidal formulations comprising alkoxylated alkyl amines or alkoxylated alkyl ether amines with peaked distribution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2013
    Publication date: May 9, 2013
    Applicant: AKZO NOBEL N.V.
    Inventor: AKZO NOBEL N.V.
  • Patent number: 8435927
    Abstract: By the present invention, a surfactant system containing glyphosate has been created which can be used to yield formulations containing an ultra-high load of glyphosate, in which the glyphosate concentration is higher than previously possible in any agriculturally-acceptable formulation. Higher loadings are desirable to reduce shipping and container costs, as well as reduce wastes. The higher loading reduces storage requirements and allows the farmer to handle less volume of pesticide. The main advantage is that maximizing the loading minimizes the cost to deliver the active ingredient, which in turn maximizes economy in use of glyphosate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: Huntsman Petrochemical LLC
    Inventor: Curtis M. Elsik
  • Patent number: 8430942
    Abstract: The subject matter of the present invention is a composition for inhibiting urease and nitrification, which may be in liquid or solid form and which comprises at least one compound for inhibiting urease, of phosphoramide type, combined with an essential oil of Allium preferably originating from Allium sativum. This composition may be used in combination with a urea-based fertilizer for the manufacture of fertilizing compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2013
    Assignee: Timac Agro International
    Inventors: Oscar Urrutia, Sara San Francicso, Josemaria Garcia-Mina, Jean-Claude Yvin
  • Publication number: 20130079226
    Abstract: Herbicide combinations (A)+(8), if appropriate in the presence of safeners, with an effective content of (A) broad-spectrum herbicides from the group (A 1) glufosinate (salts) and related compounds (A2) glyphosate (salts) and related compounds such as sulfosate, (A3) imidazolinones such as imazethapyr, imazapyr, imazaquin, imazamox or their salts and (A4) herbicidal azoles from the group of the protoporphyrinogen oxidase inhibitors (PPO inhibitors) and (A5) the hydroxybenzonitriles and (B) herbicides from the group consisting of (B0) one or more structurally different herbicides from the abovementioned group (A), (B1) foliar- and soil-acting herbicides which are effective against monocotyledonous and dicotyledonous harmful plants, (B2) predominantly foliar-acting herbicides which are effective against dicotyledonous harmful plants, (B3) predominantly foliar-acting herbicides which are effective against monocotyledonous harmful plants, and (B4) foliar- and soil-acting herbicides which are effective agai
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2012
    Publication date: March 28, 2013
    Applicant: Bayer Intellectual Property GmbH
    Inventor: Bayer Intellectual Property GmbH
  • Publication number: 20130055453
    Abstract: This invention relates to soybean event pDAB8264.42.32.1 and includes novel expression cassettes and transgenic inserts comprising multiple traits conferring resistance to glyphosate, aryloxyalkanoate, and glufosinate herbicides. This invention also relates in part to methods of controlling resistant weeds, plant breeding and herbicide tolerant plants. In some embodiments, the event sequence can be “stacked” with other traits, including, for example, other herbicide tolerance gene(s) and/or insect-inhibitory proteins. This invention further relates in part to endpoint TAQMAN PCR assays for the detection of Event pDAB8264.42.32.1 in soybeans and related plant material. Some embodiments can perform high throughput zygosity analysis of plant material and other embodiments can be used to uniquely identify the zygosity of and breed soybean lines comprising the event of the subject invention. Kits and conditions useful in conducting these assays are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2012
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Applicants: MS TECHNOLOGIES, LLC, DOW AGROSCIENCES LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Hoffman, Ning Zhou, Dayakar Pareddy, Yunxing Cory Cui, Dawn Marie Parkhurst, Nathan Bard, Sandra Grace Toledo, Gregory Alan Bradfisch, Bruce Held, Vaithilingam Sekar, Lauren Clark, Sean Michael Russell, Kelley Ann Smith, Yang Wang, Terry R. Wright
  • Patent number: 8383548
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a composition comprising i) a microencapsulated pesticide, ii) a dispersant selected from the group consisting of a lignin, b) a lignosulfonate salt and c) a lignosulfonate salt combined with the sodium salt of substituted naphthalene sulfonate formaldehyde polymer, iii) a salt selected from the group consisting of magnesium sulfate, sodium chloride, sodium nitrate and calcium chloride, and iv) a non-encapsulated pesticide. The present invention is also directed to methods of making and using the compositions of the present invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: FMC Corporation
    Inventors: Robin W. Dexter, Hong Liu
  • Publication number: 20130047297
    Abstract: This invention provides polynucleotide molecules and methods for regulating genes in plants, e. g., by providing RNA for systemic regulation of genes. Various aspects of the invention provide polynucleotide molecules and methods for regulating endogenous genes and transgenes in a plant cell and polynucleotide molecules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2011
    Publication date: February 21, 2013
    Inventors: Robert D. Sammons, Sergey Ivashuta, Hong Liu, Dafu Wang, Paul C.C. Feng, Andrei Y. Kouranov, Scott E. Andersen
  • Patent number: 8367582
    Abstract: A new fertilizer comprising Urea Phosphite, which is made by reacting phosphorous acid with urea. Urea Phosphite is characterized by being a liquid produced in an unprocessed reaction, and by having phosphite as a phosphorus source and urea as a nitrogen source. The reaction product may be blended with an admix and spray dried, or dissolved in water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: Lidochem, Inc.
    Inventor: Frank William Dean
  • Publication number: 20130029847
    Abstract: Methods of reducing injury to crop foliage and achieving weed control using encapsulated acetamide herbicides in pre-plant or preemergence crop plant applications are described. A composition comprising a first population of a particulate microencapsulated acetamide herbicide and a second population of a particulate microencapsulated acetamide herbicide is described wherein the application mixture exhibits a bimodal acetamide release profile. The compositions provide reduced crop injury through controlled herbicide release.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2011
    Publication date: January 31, 2013
    Applicant: MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC
    Inventors: Douglas A. Findley, S. Douglas Prosch, Matthew T. Faletti, Alejandro Perez-Jones, Ronald J. Brinker
  • Patent number: 8357636
    Abstract: The present invention generally relates to a process for preparing the alkoxylated alkylamines and/or alkyl ether amines. The process consists of three stages, and utilizes an alkali catalyst. The alkoxylated alkyl amines and alkoxylated alkyl ether amines prepared by the process possess the peaked distribution and contain less hazardous by-product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2013
    Assignee: Akzo Nobel N.V.
    Inventors: Shawn Zhu, Giao Nguyen, Kha Nguyen, Alberto Slikta, David Eaton, David Becher, Henry Agbaje, Michael Seitz
  • Publication number: 20130017951
    Abstract: A process for preparing an aqueous concentrate glyphosate salt composition comprises (i) neutralizing glyphosate acid with potassium hydroxide and a minor amount of a low molecular weight organic amine in presence of water to produce a glyphosate salt solution having a pH of about 4.8 to about 5.0, where the neutralizing operation comprises a first neutralization step in which a slurry or glyphosate salt solution having a pH of about 4.4 to about 4.7 is produced and a second neutralization step in which the pH is adjusted to about 4.8 to about 5.0; and (ii) after the first neutralization step and before, during or after the second neutralization step, adding further water if necessary and optionally at least one surfactant to produce a final composition having a total glyphosate a.e. concentration not less than about 360 g/l.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2012
    Publication date: January 17, 2013
    Applicant: MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC.
    Inventors: Daniel R. Wright, John W. Hemminghaus, David R. Eaton
  • Publication number: 20130017952
    Abstract: Aqueous herbicidal glyphosate compositions are provided, particularly sprayable, ready-to-use (RTU) formulations that are capable of inducing early visually apparent phytotoxic effects while minimizing antagonism to the glyphosate component of the composition and preserving the equally desirable attribute of prolonged control of the treated plants. The compositions combine a glyphosate component and a fatty acid component as a fast symptomology active ingredient and, in one embodiment, are enhanced by the concentration of the fatty acid component utilized and the inclusion of an agronomically acceptable inorganic ammonium salt, preferably ammonium sulfate. In another embodiment, the compositions of the present invention include a nonionic surfactant component comprising certain water-soluble, alkoxylated alcohols.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2012
    Publication date: January 17, 2013
    Applicant: MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC
    Inventor: Monsanto Technology LLC
  • Patent number: 8338332
    Abstract: Herbicide combinations (A)+(B), if appropriate in the presence of safeners, with an effective content of (A) broad-spectrum herbicides from the group (A1) glufosinate (salts) and related compounds (A2) glyphosate (salts) and related compounds such as sulfosate, (A3) imidazolinones such as imazethapyr, imazapyr, imazaquin, imazamox or their salts and (A4) herbicidal azoles from the group of the protoporphyrinogen oxidase inhibitors (PPO inhibitors) and (A5) the hydroxybenzonitriles and (B) herbicides from the group consisting of (B0) one or more structurally different herbicides from the abovementioned group (A), (B1) foliar- and soil-acting herbicides which are effective against monocotyledonous and dicotyledonous harmful plants, (B2) predominantly foliar-acting herbicides which are effective against dicotyledonous harmful plants, (B3) predominantly foliar-acting herbicides which are effective against monocotyledonous harmful plants, and (B4) foliar- and soil-acting herbicides which are effective against
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Bayer Intellectual Property GmbH
    Inventors: Erwin Hacker, Hermann Bieringer, Lothar Willms
  • Publication number: 20120316065
    Abstract: The present invention teaches a surfactant blend composition of at least one alcohol alkoxylate and at least one alkoxylated quaternary, and its use as an adjuvant for auxin-based pesticides. The pesticidal composition employing the surfactant blend composition of the invention realizes an efficacy that is unexpectedly superior to similar pesticidal compositions which employ only the individual surfactant components. The composition of the present invention is useful as a tank side additive, or as a component in the mention pesticidal formulations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2011
    Publication date: December 13, 2012
    Applicant: AKZO NOBEL CHEMICALS INTERNATIONAL B.V.
    Inventor: Jinxia Susan Sun
  • Publication number: 20120302442
    Abstract: A plant supporting formulation which is also suitable for use as a delivery vehicle, or a component of a delivery vehicle, for the delivery of one or more phytologically beneficial substances to a plant, and for enhancing the translocation of such delivered substance(s) in or on the plant, the formulation comprising a micro-emulsion constituted by a dispersion of vesicles or microsponges of a fatty acid based component in an aqueous carrier, the fatty acid based component comprising at least one long chain fatty acid based substance selected from the group consisting of free fatty acids and derivatives of free fatty acids. The dispersion is preferably characterized in that at least 50% of the vesicles or microsponges are of a diametrical size of between 50 nm and 5 micrometer. The dispersion is further also characterized in that the micro-emulsion has a zeta potential of between ?25 mV and ?60 mV.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2012
    Publication date: November 29, 2012
    Applicant: NORTH-WEST UNIVERSITY
    Inventor: Anne Frederica GROBLER
  • Publication number: 20120302443
    Abstract: The present invention provides a solid glyphosate formulation comprising glyphosate acid and further comprising at least one agriculturally acceptable salt of glyphosate, wherein the glyphosate acid and the at least one glyphosate salt are in admixture and wherein the mole ratio of glyphosate acid to total glyphosate moieties in the formulation is at least 10%. Methods of preparing said formulations are also provided. The present invention further provides a method of removing unwanted foliage comprising administering a diluted form of a formulation according to the present invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2010
    Publication date: November 29, 2012
    Applicant: Eureka! AgResearch (Vic) Pty Ltd.
    Inventors: Philip Pentland, Anthony Flynn, Abhinetiri Maharaj
  • Publication number: 20120277104
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of controlling undesirable vegetation in a field containing an auxin herbicide-resistant cotton crop by applying to the location where control is desired a mixture of an effective amount of 2,4-DB and an effective amount of glufosinate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2012
    Publication date: November 1, 2012
    Applicant: DOW AGROSCIENCES LLC
    Inventors: John S. Richburg, Terry R. Wright, Leon B. Braxton, Andrew E. Robinson
  • Publication number: 20120277105
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of controlling undesirable vegetation in a field containing an auxin herbicide-resistant cotton crop by applying to the location where control is desired a mixture of an effective amount of 2,4-DB and an effective amount of glyphosate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2012
    Publication date: November 1, 2012
    Applicant: DOW AGROSCIENCES LLC
    Inventors: John S. Richburg, Terry R. Wright, Leon B. Braxton, Andrew E. Robinson
  • Publication number: 20120255050
    Abstract: The invention provides cotton event MON 88701, and plants, plant cells, seeds, plant parts, and commodity products comprising event MON 88701. The invention also provides polynucleotides specific for event MON 88701 and plants, plant cells, seeds, plant parts, and commodity products comprising polynucleotides specific for event MON 88701. The invention also provides methods related to event MON 88701.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2012
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Inventors: Ronald J. Brinker, Wen C. Burns, Paul C.C. Feng, John A. Kendig, Sherry LeClere, Jennifer Lutke, Marianne Malven
  • Publication number: 20120245028
    Abstract: Tetraalkyl ammonium halides are applied to a broad range of undesirable terrestrial plants for fast and effective herbicidal activity. It is desirable to use a herbicidally effective amount of the chemical formula R1R2N(+)R3R4 X(?), wherein, R1 and R2 are each independently C1 to C4 alkyl; R3 and R4 are each independently C8 to C16 alkyl; X is chloride or bromide. This herbicide may be used alone, or in combination with at least one additional herbicide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2012
    Publication date: September 27, 2012
    Inventor: James B. Nabors
  • Patent number: 8268749
    Abstract: Aqueous herbicidal glyphosate compositions are provided, particularly sprayable, ready-to-use (RTU) formulations that are capable of inducing early visually apparent phytotoxic effects while minimizing antagonism to the glyphosate component of the composition and preserving the equally desirable attribute of prolonged control of the treated plants. The compositions combine a glyphosate component and a fatty acid component as a fast symptomology active ingredient and, in one embodiment, are enhanced by the concentration of the fatty acid component utilized and the inclusion of an agronomically acceptable inorganic ammonium salt, preferably ammonium sulfate. In another embodiment, the compositions of the present invention include a nonionic surfactant component comprising certain water-soluble, alkoxylated alcohols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventors: Daniel R. Wright, Joseph J. Sandbrink, Paul G. Ratliff, Bryan A. Kliewer, Dawn Y. Wyse-Pester
  • Patent number: 8263530
    Abstract: The invention refers a new formulation of fluoroxypyr or chlorpyrifos or diflufenican microencapsulated and in the form of water dispersable granules or as a part of a ZC formulation. Further the invention refers to water dispersable granules containing microcapsules that enclose fluoroxypyr and at the same time the WDG have also sulfonylureas outside of the microcapsules. Further we provide formulations in the form of SC or ZC of the aforementioned active ingredients and its combinations. Also fluoroxypyr may be replaced by any agrochemical of any biological activity that is solid at room temperature and melts below 110° C. Mixtures of actives of such formulations are also contemplated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: GAT Microencapsulation AG
    Inventors: Victor Casaña Giner, Miguel Gimeno Sierra, Barbara Gimeno Sierra
  • Publication number: 20120172220
    Abstract: The present invention provides N-phosphonomethylglycine guanidine salts. The N-phosphonomethylglycine guanidine salts have improved herbicidal efficacy over glyphosate alone. The present invention also provides guanidine compounds and salts thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2010
    Publication date: July 5, 2012
    Applicants: FLAMEL TECHNOLOGIES S.A., MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC
    Inventors: Ronald J. Brinker, Olivier Soula, Alain Lemercier
  • Publication number: 20120157308
    Abstract: Methods and compositions are provided related to improved plants that are tolerant to more than one herbicide. Particularly, the invention provides plants that are tolerant of glyphosate and are tolerant to at least one ALS inhibitor, and methods of use thereof. The glyphosate/ALS inhibitor-tolerant plants comprise a polynucleotide that encodes a polypeptide that confers tolerance to glyphosate and a polynucleotide that encodes an ALS inhibitor-tolerant polypeptide. In specific embodiments, a plant of the invention expresses a GAT polypeptide and an HRA polypeptide. Methods to control weeds, improve plant yield, and increase transformation efficiencies are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2011
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Applicants: E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.
    Inventors: Billy Fred McCutchen, Timothy K. Chicoine, Jerry M. Green, Christine B. Hazel, Jeffrey M. Hegstad, James M. Hutchison, Donglong Liu, Albert L. Lu, Kenneth A. Peeples, David W. Saunders, Mark D. Vogt, James F.H. Wong
  • Publication number: 20120149572
    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
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2010
    Publication date: June 14, 2012
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Markus Gewehr, Robert John Gladwin, Lutz Brahm, Egon Haden, Marco-Antonio Tavares-Rodrigues, Scott Peoples, Deneen B. Sebastian, Ronald Repage
  • Publication number: 20120144530
    Abstract: A nucleic acid molecule encoding a 5-enolpyruvyl-3-phosphoshikimic acid synthase (EPSPS) that provides resistance to glyphosate is provided, that has been optimized for expression in both monocotyledonous and dicotyledonous plants and preferably in soybeans. Methods of use are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2011
    Publication date: June 7, 2012
    Applicant: MS TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Bruce Held, Vaithilingam Sekar, Terry Wright, Sean Russell
  • Publication number: 20120135864
    Abstract: A composition suitable for improving seed quality in a plant comprising: (i) a compound selected from an auxin, an auxin precursor, an auxin metabolite or a derivative of said auxin, auxin precursor or auxin metabolite; (ii) acetaminophen or a derivative thereof; and further comprising at least one compound selected from (iii) to (v) wherein: (iii) is a cytokinin, (iv) is another agrochemically acceptable additive, and (v) is a thiosulphate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2009
    Publication date: May 31, 2012
    Applicant: TAMINCO, NAAMLOZE VENNOOTSCHAP
    Inventors: Richard Williams, Peter Roose, Johan Josef De Saegher