Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of a compound of the general formula (I) in which M and D have the meanings given in the description for controlling animal pests, in particular nematodes.

Abstract: The present invention refers to a plant growth and development, inductive resistance bio-stimulant formulation for phytopathogen virus disease control and its method of preparation from plant extracts and other natural origin products. The plant growth and development, inductive resistance bio-stimulant formulation for phytopathogen virus disease control is composed of plant extracts and vegetable oils proceeding from Chihuahua semi-desert plant varieties and absolute oils and aromatic plant extracts, and other components. This formulation has been widely proven in field and is useful for phytopathogen virus disease control, preventing and reducing DNA and RNA virus damage of greater impact in vegetable and fruit crop production, ameliorating the number of damaged plants, delaying the appearance of virosis symptoms, significantly decreasing the severity of damage, reducing virus dissemination in plantation, favoring growth continuity in plant and assuring a greater yield under attack conditions.

Abstract: An agent for improving lawn grass quality, which is excellent in promoting dwarfing of lawn grass, making the stem sturdy, increasing the leaf count, and improving greenness, is provided. An agent for improving lawn grass quality containing, as active ingredients, 5-aminolevulinic acid represented by formula (1): R2R1NCH2COCH2CH2COR3??(1) wherein R1 and R2 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an acyl group, an alkoxycarbonyl group, an aryl group or an aralkyl group; and R3 represents a hydroxyl group, an alkoxy group, an acyloxy group, an alkoxycarbonyloxy group, an aryloxy group, an aralkyloxy group or an amino group, or a derivative thereof or a salt of the acid or the derivative, and a gibberellin biosynthesis inhibitor.

Abstract: There is provided an agent for improving the growth of seedlings, having effects of raising healthy rice seedlings, such as increase of the tillering number, increase of root weight, enhancement of greenness, and increase of stem thickness. An agent for improving the growth of rice seedlings containing, as active ingredients, 5-aminolevulinic acid represented by formula (1), a derivative thereof or a salt of the acid or the derivative, and a gibberellin biosynthesis inhibitor: R2R1NCH2COCH2CH2COR3??(1) wherein R1 and R2 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an acyl group, an alkoxycarbonyl group, an aryl group or an aralkyl group; and R3 represents a hydroxyl group, an alkoxy group, an acyloxy group, an alkoxycarbonyloxy group, an aryloxy group, an aralkyloxy group or an amino group.

Abstract: This disclosure features combinations that include a paraffinic oil and a Class B gibberellin biosynthesis inhibitor. The combinations can further include (but are not limited to) one or more of the following: one or more emulsifiers, one or more pigments, one or more silicone surfactants, one or more anti-settling agents, and water. This disclosure also features methods of using the combinations for promoting health of a plant (e.g., turf grass) as well as methods of formulating combinations that include both oil and water as oil-in-water (O/W) emulsions.

Abstract: Method for per to provide a turf for sports, ornamental or recreational use, comprising the steps of: selecting a stoloniferous and/or rhizomatous plant species; cultivating a plurality of mother plants belonging to said stoloniferous and/or rhizomatous species up to reach a predetermined vegetative development, said mother plants comprising stolons and/or rhizomes having a plurality of nodes, wherein two successive nodes are connected by plant portions, or internodes; preparing at least one cutting from each mother plant of said plurality of mother plants, said cutting comprising at least one node and an internode, wherein said internode has a length set between 1 mm and 10 mm; and carrying out a vegetative propagation of a plurality of said cuttings in a desired site then obtaining said turf.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a method of lily bulb dwarfing treatment which can be performed before planting, be practiced easily and permit to obtain a uniform dwarfing effect without any special experience and to provide thus dwarfing treated lily bulbs.Namely, according to the present invention, lily bulbs are submitted to the sprouting treatment, then thus sprouted lily bulbs are soaked in a dwarfing agent.

Abstract: A wood preservative comprising a styryl triazole derivative of the formula [I] ##STR1## wherein X represents chlorine or hydrogen as an active ingredient. The present wood preservative has a wood-preservating efficacy equivalent to and remarkably improved light resistance as compared with a conventional organic iodine compound slightly inferior in light resistance, and therefore, exhibits a stabilized wood-preservating efficacy without causing discoloration even under irradiation with light.

Abstract: This invention relates to substituted bicycloheptadione derivatives with high herbicidal activity which are represented by general formula (I) ##STR1## (where R.sup.1 is a lower alkyl group, a phenyl group which may be substituted, an aralkyl group which may be substituted, or a heterocyclic group which may be substituted;R.sup.2 is, same or different, a halogen, an alkoxy group, an alkylthio group, an alkylsulfonyl group, an alkyl group, an alkoxyalkyl group, or an alkoxylcarbonyl group, and n is 0 to 4;R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 are, same or different, hydrogen or a lower alkyl group).

Abstract: Compounds of formula (I) or salts thereof, ##STR1## in which J is a radical of the formula R.sup.1 SO.sub.2 --CR.sup.2 R.sup.3 --, R.sup.4 R.sup.5 N--SO.sub.2 --CR.sup.2 R.sup.3 --, or ##STR2## and wherein the radicals R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3, R.sup.6, R.sup.7, R.sup.8, R.sup.*, A, W, m, n and 0 are defined as set forth in the specification, are suitable as selective herbicides and plant growth regulators.

Abstract: N-Phenylsulfonyl N'-triazinylureas and -thioureas of formula I ##STR1## in which X is oxygen, sulfur, SO or SO.sub.2 ; W is oxygen or sulfur; R.sub.1 is hydrogen or methyl; R.sub.2 is hydrogen, fluorine, chlorine, bromine, iodine, (X).sub.n R.sub.3, NO.sub.2, NR.sub.4 R.sub.5, --C.tbd.CR.sub.6, ##STR2## or cyano; n is the number 0 or 1; R.sub.3 is C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl or C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl which is substituted by 1-4 halogen atoms, C.sub.1 -C.sub.3 alkoxy or C.sub.1 -C.sub.3 alkylthio; or C.sub.2 -C.sub.4 alkenyl or C.sub.2 -C.sub.4 alkenyl which is substituted by 1-4 halogen atoms; R.sub.4 is hydrogen, CH.sub.3 O, CH.sub.3 CH.sub.2 O or C.sub.1 -C.sub.3 alkyl; R.sub.5 is hydrogen or C.sub.1 -C.sub.3 alkyl; R.sub.6 is hydrogen, methyl or ethyl; R.sub.7 is hydrogen or methyl; Z is ##STR3## E is nitrogen; R.sub.8 is C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkoxy, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 haloalkoxy, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 haloalkyl, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 haloalkylthio, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkylthio, halogen, C.sub.2 -C.sub.

Abstract: Azolylethane derivatives of the general formula I ##STR1## where A and Z are each alkyl, phenyl, biphenyl, naphthyl, benzyl, cycloalkyl or cycloalkenyl, these radicals being substituted or unsubstituted, D is alkoxy, amino, mercapto, thiophenyl, aminophenyl, hetaryloxy or phenoxy, these radicals being substituted or unsubstituted, n is an integer from 1 to 5 or 0, and X is CH or N, and their plant-tolerated acid addition salts and metal complexes, and fungicides and growth regulators containing these compounds.

Abstract: This application discloses hebricidal B-pyrazolylacrylic acids, compositions containing them, methods of preparing them, and methods for controlling undesired plant growth by preemergent or postemergent application of the herbicidal compositions to the locus where control is desired. The herbicidal compounds have the formula ##STR1## in which the radicals are defined in the claims.

Abstract: A herbicidal compound of formula (I): ##STR1## in which the dotted line indicates the presence of two double bonds arranged so as to form a fused hetero-aromatic ring system;Py is an optionally substituted pyrazole ring;W is O or NR.sup.1 ; where R.sup.1 is hydrogen or lower alkyl;X is (CH.sub.2).sub.n, CH.dbd.CH, CH(OR.sup.5)CH.sub.2, COCH.sub.2 ;where n is 0, 1 or 2;R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 are independently selected from H, optionally substituted alkyl, alkenyl or alkynyl, halogen, NR.sup.6 R.sup.7, or R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 together with the carbon to which they are attached form an optionally substituted alkenyl or cycloalkyl group;R.sup.4 is CO.sub.2 R.sup.8, CN, COR.sup.8, CH.sub.2 OR.sup.8, CH(OH)R.sup.8, CH(OR.sup.8)R.sup.9, CSNH.sub.2, COSR.sup.8, CSOR.sup.8, CONHSO.sub.2 R.sup.8, CONR.sup.10 R.sup.11, CONHNR.sup.10 R.sup.11, CONHN.sup.+ R.sup.10 R.sup.11 R.sup.12 R.sup.14-, CO.sub.2.sup.- R.sup.15+ or COON.dbd.CR.sup.10 R.sup.11 ;R.sup.15+ is an agriculturally acceptable cation and R.sup.

Abstract: The present invention relates to certain novel substituted 3-phenoxypyrazoles and their use as herbicides.