Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of controlling plants or inhibiting plant growth which comprises applying to the plants or to the locus thereof a herbicidally effective amount of a compound of formula (I) wherein R1, R2, R3, R4 and R5 are as defined in claim 1; or salts or N-oxides thereof. Furthermore, the present invention relates to processes for preparing compounds of formula (I), to herbicidal compositions comprising compounds of formula (I) and to certain novel pyrido[2,3-b]pyrazines.

Abstract: Described are preferred methods and compositions for controlling aquatic weeds that involve the use of fluridone in combination with at least one additional selected herbicidal agent, which is preferably penoxsulam, bensulfuron-methyl, bispyribac-sodium, and imazamox (ALS inhibitors). Additional preferred compositions and methods can further involve the use of triclopyr or 2,4-d (auxinic herbicides) in the herbicidal composition. Preferred herbicidal combinations allow for enhanced control and/or selectivity when treating a body of water to control a target weed population, such as a hydrilla, watermilfoil, curlyleaf pondweed, and/or Brazilian elodea weed populations.

Abstract: Described are preferred methods and compositions for controlling aquatic weeds that involve the use of an ALS-inhibiting herbicidal agent such as penoxsulam in combination with endothall. Preferred herbicidal combinations allow for enhanced control when treating a body of water to control a target weed population, such as hydrilla.

Abstract: There is provided an emulsion composition useful as a preparation containing an active agrochemical compound. The emulsion composition essentially consisting of 0.5 to 25% by weight of one or a plurality of hydrophobic active agrochemical compounds; 5 to 15% by weight of one or a plurality of surfactants; 2 to 60% by weight of one or a plurality of aromatic hydrocarbon solvents; 2 to 60% by weight of propylene glycol diacetate; 12 to 90% by weight of 1,3-dimethyl-2-imidazolidinone; and 0 to 5% by weight of one or a plurality of formulation auxiliaries, wherein a weight ratio of 1,3-dimethyl-2-imidazolidinone and the aromatic hydrocarbon solvent(s) is 1:0.03 to 1:2.0, and a weight ratio of 1,3-dimethyl-2-imidazolidinone and propylene glycol diacetate is 1:0.03 to 1:2.0.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of an active compound that inhibits the mitochondrial breathing chain at the level of the b/c1 complex for improving the tolerance of plants to low temperatures.

Abstract: Herbicide combinations comprising an effective amount of components (A) and (B) have improved herbicidal action wherein (A) is one or more herbicides of the formula (I) or salts thereof in which R1 is (C1-C8)-alkyl, (C3-C4)-alkenyl, (C3-C4)-alkynyl, or (C1-C4)-alkyl which is mono- to tetrasubstituted by radicals selected from the group consisting of halogen and/or (C1-C2)-alkoxy, R2 is I or CH2NHSO2CH3, R3 is methyl or methoxy and Z is N or CH and (B) denotes one or more herbicides which act selectively in some monocotyledonous crops against monocotyledonous and/or dicotyledonous harmful plants, which herbicides are selected from the group of compounds consisting of flucarbazone, BAY MKH 6561 (procarbazone), florasulam, halosulfuron, tritosulfuron, picolinafen, cinidon-ethyl, mesotrione, metosulam, clopyralid, flufenacet, flumetsulam, flupoxam, prosulfocarb, flurtamone, aclonifen, hexazinone, asulam, diuron, ametryn, isoxaflutole, amicarbazone and trifloxysulfuron.

Abstract: This invention relates to the use of N6-phenylmethyl-1H-purin-6-amine (benzyladenine) in combination with S—(+)-abscisic acid (ABA), ABA analogs or derivatives to improve the performance of germination delay seed treatments.

Abstract: The present Invention relates to a herbicide composition comprising, as active ingredients, at least one compound selected from the thienopyrimidine derivatives represented by the formula (I); wherein R1 represents a fluoroalkyl group having 1 or 2 carbon atoms, a fluoroalkoxy group having 1 or 2 carbon atoms or a fluoroalkylthio group having 1 or 2 carbon atoms, R2 represents a linear or branched alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms or a linear or branched fluoroalkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, and R3 and R4 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or a linear or branched alkyl group having 1 to 3 carbon atoms; and one or two or more kinds of herbicides selected from a urea-based herbicide, a dinitroaniline-based herbicide, a phenoxypropionic acid-based herbicide, a cyclohexanedione-based herbicide, an imidazolinone-based herbicide, a sulfonylurea-based herbicide, a carbamate-based herbicide, a triazolinone-based herbicide, a triazolopyrimidine-based herbicide, fluoroxypyr or a derivative th

Abstract: The present invention relates to mixtures of strobilurin fungicides and plant growth regulators and to the foliar application of these mixtures on crops including cotton.

Abstract: A herbicidal composition comprising a) at least one 3-phenyluracils of formula I wherein the variables R1 to R7 are as defined in the specification; and b) at least one 3-sulfonylisoxazoline of formula II wherein the variables R8 and R9 are as defined in the specification; and c) optionally at least one safener III selected from the group as defined in the specification.

Abstract: Penoxsulam, 2-(2,2-difluoroethoxy)-N-(5,8-dimethoxy[1,2,4]-triazolo[1,5-c]pyrimidin-2-yl)-6-(trifluoromethyl)benzenesulfonamide, provides synergistic herbicidal control with dicamba, the mixture of 2,4-D, triclopyr and clopyralid, or the mixture of 2,4-D and mecoprop-P.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an herbicide composition comprising, as active ingredients, a uracil compound represented by the following formula (I): wherein Z represents halogen or cyano; A represents oxygen, sulfur or NH; R1 represents hydroxyl, C1-C7 alkoxy or others, and R2 represents hydrogen or methyl, and one or more compounds selected from the group consisting of 2-(4-chloro-6-methoxypyrimidin-2-ylcarbamoylsulfamoyl) benzoic acid, agriculturally acceptable salts of 2-(4-chloro-6-methoxypyrimidin-2-ylcarbamoylsulfamoyl) benzoic acid and lower-alkyl esters of lower-alkyl esters of 2-(4-chloro-6-methoxypyrimidin-2-ylcarbamoylsulfamoyl) benzoic acid; and a method for controlling weeds which comprises applying an effective amounts of said herbicide composition to weeds. According to the invention, particularly weeds in orchards, soybean fields and non-crop lands can be effectively controlled.

Abstract: Synergistic compositions are described, having a high herbicidal activity and containing the compound having formula (I): in a mixture with one or more known herbicidal products.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an herbicide composition comprising, as active ingredients, a uracil compound represented by the following formula (I): wherein Z represents halogen or cyano; A represents oxygen, sulfur or NH; R1 represents hydroxyl, C1-C7 alkoxy or others, and R2 represents hydrogen or methyl, and one or more imidazolinone compounds selected from the group consisting of 5-ethyl-2-(4-isopropyl-4-methyl-5-oxo-2-imidazolin-2-yl)nicotinic acid and 2-(4-isopropyl-4-methyl-5-oxo-2-imidazolin-2-yl)-5-(methoxymethyl)nicotinic acid; and a method for controlling weeds which comprises applying an effective amounts of said herbicide composition to weeds. According to the invention, particularly weeds in orchards, soybean fields and non-crop lands can be effectively controlled.

Abstract: A herbicidal synergistic composition for the control of weeds and grasses in protoporphyrinogen-oxidase-inhibitor-resistant crops of useful plants which, in addition to comprising customarily inert formulation adjuvants, comprises as active ingredients a) a herbidically effective amount of 5-[2-chloro-4-(trifluoromethyl)phenoxy]-N-(methylsulfonyl)-2-nitro-benzamide of formula (1) which inhibits the action of protoporphyrinogen oxidases, and b) a synergistically effective amount of at least one further compound selected from the group consisting of the co-herbicides diclosulam, foramsulfuron, tepraloxydim, fluazifop-butyl I and fluazifop-P-butyl.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of certain fungicides for increasing the quality and, if appropriate, the quantity of oil crop products. It also relates to the use of these fungicides for reducing the brittleness of the seed coats of seed oil crops. Furthermore, it relates to oil plant products which can be obtained from oil crops which have been treated with these fungicides, for example oils or seeds from oil crops which have been treated in this manner. Furthermore, it also relates to renewable fuels which comprise the oil according to the invention and/or reaction products thereof. Finally, it relates to a method of improving the combustion in engines and furnace installations, in which these are operated at least to some extent with a suitable oil crop product according to the invention.

Abstract: Compositions and methods for conferring herbicide resistance or tolerance to plants, plant cells, tissues and seeds are provided. Compositions include transgenic plants, plant cells, tissues, and seeds that have been transformed with a nucleic acid molecule encoding a cytochrome P450 or variant thereof that confers herbicide resistance or tolerance, alone or in combination with one or more additional nucleic acid molecules encoding polypeptides that confer desirable traits. In particular, the cytochrome P450 or variant thereof confers resistance or tolerance to HPPD inhibitors, benzothiadiazinones, sulfonylureas, and other classes of herbicides. The additional polypeptide may also confer resistance or tolerance to an herbicide, including HPPD inhibitors and other herbicides. Methods are also provided for the production and use of the herbicide resistant or tolerant plants, plant cells, tissues and seeds of the invention.

Abstract: Conventional many fungicidal compositions have had practical problems such that either a preventive effect or a curing effect is inadequate, the residual effect tends to be inadequate, or the controlling effect against plant diseases tends to be inadequate depending upon the application site, and a fungicidal composition to overcome such problems has been desired.

Abstract: A composition comprising an effective amount of GA4/7 (gibberellin 4 and gibberellin 7) or GA3 (gibberellic acid) and 6BA (benzyladenine) is used as a seed treatment on sweet and field corn (Zea mays) to accelerate plant establishment and to promote low temperature germination and emergence.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of 3-phenyluracils of formula (I) wherein the variables R1 to R7 are as defined in the description, optionally in combination with one or more other herbicides B and/or one or more safeners C for controlling weeds in soybeans, cotton, canola, flax, lentil, rice, sugar beet, sunflowers, tobacco, wheat and corn.

Abstract: This invention describes the use of S-(+)-abscisic acid (ABA) or ABA analogs or ABA derivatives alone or with guanylate cyclase activators as seed treatments to improve the survival of corn seeds and seedlings when low temperature occurs after planting.

Abstract: Undesired plant growth in cultivations of useful plants which are resistant to phopho-herbicides, may be controlled with herbicidal compositions, which contain, in addition to the usual inert formulation assistants, a phospho-herbicide and a synergistic amount of at least one further herbicide selected from the group comprising prosulfuron, primisulfuron, dicamba, pyridate, dimethenamide and its S-enantiomer, metolachlor and its S-enantiomer, fluometuron, propaquizafop, atrazine, clodinafop, norflurazone, ametryn, terbutylazine, simazine, prometryn, NOA-402989, as well as the compounds of formulae.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to the treatment of a plant at the flowering or fruiting stage with an effective amount of abscisic acid, its analogs or derivatives and salts thereof to reduce the number of fruits that the plant sets and grows to maturity.

Abstract: The present invention is related to compositions comprising 3-phenyluracils I, wherein the variables R1 to R7 are as defined in the specification, including their agriculturally acceptable salts; and N-[[4-[(cyclopropylamino)carbonyl]phenyl]sulfonyl]-2-methoxy-benzamide II including its agriculturally acceptable salts; and optionally at least one herbicide III selected from the classes III.1) to III.15) defined as in the specification including their agriculturally acceptable salts and, provided they have a carboxyl group, their agriculturally acceptable derivatives.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of 3-phenyluracils of formula (I) wherein the variables R1 to R7 are as defined in the description, optionally in combination with one or more other herbicides B and/or one or more safeners C for controlling glyphosate resistant weeds or crops.

Abstract: A composition for control of diseases on useful plants or on propagation material thereof caused by phytopathogens, that, in addition to customary inert formulation adjuvants, comprises as active ingredient a mixture of component (A) and a synergistically effective amount of component (B), wherein component (A) is Cyprodinil; and component (B) a compound selected from compounds known for their fungicidal activity, is particularly effective in controlling or preventing fungal diseases of useful plants.

Abstract: Mixed herbicidal compositions for controlling weeds, preferably in paddy field are provided. The compositions are characterized by comprising, as active ingredients, (a) an herbicidal difluoromethane sulfonanilide, (b) at least one herbicidal compound selected from the group consisting of known herbicides as defined in claim 1 and, optionally, (c) one or more compounds selected from the group consisting of safeners.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an herbicide composition comprising, as active ingredients, a uracil compound represented by the following formula (I): wherein Z represents halogen or cyano; A represents oxygen, sulfur or NH; R1 represents hydroxyl, C1-C7 alkoxy or others, and R2 represents hydrogen or methyl, and one or more compounds selected from the group consisting of N-(7-fluoro-3,4-dihydro-3-oxo-4-prop-2-ynyl-2H-1,4-benzoxazin-6-yl)cyclohex-1-ene-1,2-dicarboxamide and N-[2,4-dichloro-5-[4-(difluoromethyl)-4,5-dihydro-3-methyl-5-oxo-1H-1,2,4-triazol-1-yl]phenyl]methanesulfonamide; and a method for controlling weeds which comprises applying an effective amounts of said herbicide composition to weeds. According to the invention, particularly weeds in orchards, soybean fields and non-crop lands can be effectively controlled.

Abstract: The invention relates to novel compositions of biologically active agents containing less than 50% by weight of a low use rate agrochemical active and a dispersing agent, which exhibit enhanced bio-availability on dilution and application in water.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of 3-phenyluracils of formula (I) wherein the variables R1 to R7 are as defined in the description, in combination with tribenuron and optionally one or more other herbicides for controlling weeds in small-grain cereals.

Abstract: To provide a herbicidal composition which is highly safe to crop plants and which is capable of controlling weeds problematic in e.g. paddy fields, upland fields and non-agricultural fields over a wide range of from preemergence to postemergence.

Abstract: Heterocyclic derivatives based on N6-substituted adenine of, e.g.,a formula: wherein R2 is hydrogen, R6 is R6?-X, X is —NH—, and R6? is substituted phenyl or substituted benzyl. The derivatives possess anticancer, mitotic, imunosuppressive and antisenescent properties for plant, animal and human cells, and methods of their preparation are disclosed. Included are also pharmaceutical compositions, cosmetic preparations and growth regulators, which contain these derivatives as active compound and the use of these derivatives for the preparation of drugs, cosmetic preparations, in biotechnological processes, in cosmetics and in agriculture.

Abstract: Herbicidal composition comprising: a) a herbicidally effective amount of a compound of formula (I), wherein the substituents are as defined in claim 1; and b) an amount, effective for herbicide synergy, of mesosulfuron, mesotrione or flufenacet.

Abstract: The invention relates to novel herbicidal synergistic active compound combinations comprising a known tetrazolinone derivative and known herbicidally active compounds and/or safeners, which compositions can be used with particularly good results for the selective control of weeds in various crops of useful plants.

Abstract: The invention provides a herbicide composition consisting of 2-[(4,6-dimethoxypyrimidin-2-yl)hydroxy-methyl]-6-methoxymethyl-N-difluoromethanesulfonylanilide as the component (A) and any compound selected from more than 20 kinds of specific compounds such as orbencarb and the like as the component (B), heretofore not combined with the component (A) compound. Dispensation of the herbicide composition to paddy fields, lawns, dry fields, or non-agricultural lands gives excellent weed-controlling effects on a variety of weeds and causes no or little phytotoxicities on valuable cultivated plants.

Abstract: The invention relates to combinations of sulfonylurea herbicides (A) and their salts in which R2 is H, OH, aliphatic hydrocarbon radical or hydrocarbon-oxy radical, and R1 is an acyl radical, and the other symbols are as defined in claim 1, and safeners of type (B1) and (B2) in which the symbols are as defined in claim 1.

Abstract: Described are plant growth regulation compositions and methods utilizing combinations of Class A and Class B gibberellin biosynthesis inhibitors. Preferred methods and compositions involve the combination of trinexapac-ethyl with either or both of flurprimidol and paclobutrazol, in particular to provide a synergistic effect in the regulation of the growth of turfgrass.

Abstract: The invention relates to novel herbicidal synergistic active compound combinations which comprise firstly arylsulphonylaminocarbonyltriazolinones and secondly herbicidally active compounds and/or safeners listed in the description, and which can be used with particularly good results for the selective control of weeds in various crops of useful plants.

Abstract: Herbicidal compositions comprising A) at least one compound from the group of the hydroxyphenylpyruvate dioxygenase inhibitors and B) at least one compound from the group B-a) herbicides which are selectively active in cereals against monocotyledonous and/or dicotyledonous harmful plants, B-b) herbicides which are selectively active in corn against monocotyledonous and/or dicotyledonous harmful plants, B-c) herbicides which are selectively active in rice against monocotyledonous and/or dicotyledonous harmful plants, B-d) herbicides which are nonselectively active in land which is not under cultivation and/or selectively active in transgenic crops against monocotyledonous and/or dicotyledonous harmful plants are described. The activity of these compositions is superior to that of the herbicides applied on their own.

Abstract: An organic complement for fertilizing vegetable species, as an organic product which fulfills with the features of a growth stimulator, mainly manufactured from green algae (Ulva rigida) and brownish algae (Macrocystis pyrifera). The invention includes a process for obtaining the complement that requires washing, grinding, acid and alkaline digestion, filtering and packaging steps. The most important used supplies are hydrochloric and phosphoric acid, and potassium carbonate. The product allows to improve the absorption efficiency of the nutrients supplied by the fertilizers, guaranteeing an optimal growth for the plant species, achieving a higher production in a short period of time. The product is biodegradable and beneficial for soils.

Abstract: This invention concerns new biocidal compounds of formula (I) wherein R is H or CH3. Of particular interest are two isomers that are named malayamycin A and desmethylmalayamycin A. These isomers, which may be prepared by growing under controlled conditions a previously unknown strain of micro-organism from the species Streptomyces malaysiensis, are characterised by nmr and mass spectroscopic data. They have biocidal activity, including anti-fungal, anti-viral and anti-cancer activity, and are of special interest for use in agriculture, horticulture, animal and human health.

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, (A4) herbicidal azoles from the group of the protoporphyrinogen oxidase inhibitors (PPO inhibitors) (A5) cyclohexanedione herbicides and (A6) heteroaryloxyphenoxypropionic acid herbicides and (B) one or more herbicides from the group of the compounds consisting of (B0) one or more structurally different herbicides from the abovementioned group (A) or (B1) foliar- and soil-acting herbicides against monocotyledonous and dicotyledonous harmful plants or (B2) herbicides which can be employed selectively in maize against dicots, or (B3) foliar- and soil-acting herbicides which can be employed selectively in maize, predominantly against dicotyledonous harmful plants, ?or herbicides from several of groups (B0) to (B3) are suitab

Abstract: The invention relates to novel substituted phenyl uracils of the formula (I) in which R1 represents hydrogen, amino or in each case optionally substituted alkyl, alkenyl or alkynyl, R2 represents cyano, carboxy, carbamoyl, thiocarbamoyl or optionally substituted alkyl or alkoxycarbonyl, R3 represents hydrogen, halogen or optionally substituted alkyl, R4 represents hydrogen, nitro, cyano, alkoxy or halogen, R5 represents cyano, thiocarbamoyl, halogen or optionally substituted alkyl or alkoxy and R6 represents an optionally substituted nitrogen-containing heterocyclic group which is attached to R6 via N, to processes for their preparation, to their use as crop treatment agents, and to intermediates and processes for their preparation.

Abstract: Fungicidal mixtures, comprising A) the compound of the formula I and B) a pyrimidine derivative of the formula II, in which R is methyl, cyclopropyl or 1-propynyl, in a synergistically effective amount, methods for controlling harmful fungi using mixtures of compounds I and II and the use of the compounds I and II for preparing such mixtures are described.

Abstract: The invention relates to novel herbicidal synergistic active compound combinations comprising heteroaryloxy-acetamides and known herbicidally active compounds and/or safeners described in the description and their use for the selective control of weeds in crops of various useful plants.

Abstract: Provided is a method of formulating hydrophobic pesticides comprising emulsifying an aqueous phase and a water-immiscible phase to form a formulation; wherein the aqueous phase is comprised of water and optionally a freeze/thaw agent, one or more emulsifiers, or combinations thereof, and the water-immiscible phase comprises the hydrophobic pesticide and one or more emulsifiers.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a synergistic herbicidal composition comprising; (A) mesotrione, and: (B) a second herbicide selected from; (B1) triazines (B2) triazolinones (B3) triazinones (B4) imidazolinones (B5) dicamba (B6) flumetsulam (B7) trifloxysulfuron (B8) tritosulfuron (B9) triasulfuron (B10) pyriftalid (B11) prosulfocarb (B12) pretilachlor (B13) cinosulfuron, or their herbicidally effective salts. A method of controlling the growth of undesirable vegetation, particularly in crops, using this synergistic composition is also disclosed.

Abstract: A synergistic herbicidal mixture comprising A) at least one benzoyl compound of formula I or a salt thereof wherein R1, R3 are hydrogen, halogen, alkyl, halogenalkyl, alkoxy, halogenalkoxy, alkylthio, alkylsulfinyl or alkylaulfanyl; R2 is optionally substituted thiazol-2-yl, thiazol-4-yl, thiazol-5-yl, isoxazol-3-yl, isoxazol-4-yl, isoxazol-5-yl, 4,5-dihydroisoxazol-3-yl, 4,5-dihydroisoxazol-4-yl or 4,5-dihydroisoxazol-5-yl; R4 is hydrogen, halogen or alkyl; R5 is alkyl; R6 is hydrogen or alkyl; and B) a synergistically effective amount of at least one further herbicidal compound as defined in the specification, compositions comprising these mixtures, processes for the preparation of these compositions, and their use for controlling undesired plants.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for increasing the efficacy of a herbicidal compound of formula I which comprises applying an effective amount of said herbicidal compound directly to the soil in the form of a solid granule or solid powder which contains said herbicidal compound and at least one inert solid carrier. It is another object of this invention to provide solid granular or powder compositions of herbicidal compounds of formula I and at least one inert solid carrier, as well as methods for the use of said compositions in the control of weeds.

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.