Abstract: The invention is directed to methods and compositions for increasing a growth characteristic of a plant, increasing nutrient use efficiency of a plant, or improving a plant's ability to overcome stress comprising applying a composition comprising ketosuccinamate, a derivative thereof, or a salt thereof, to the plant or to a propagation material of the plant.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of improving grass quality comprising applying an effective amount of a composition containing a phthalocyanine to the grass in the substantial absence of phosphorous acid, monoalkyl esters of phosphorous acid, or salts thereof.

Abstract: The present invention relates to novel 4-biphenyl-substituted pyrazolidine-3,5-dione derivatives of the formula (I) in which A, D, G, W, X, Y and Z are as defined above, to a plurality of processes for the preparation and to their use as pesticides and/or herbicides and/or microbicides. Moreover, the invention relates to selective herbicidal compositions comprising both the 4-biphenyl-substituted pyrazolidine-3,5-dione derivatives of the formula (I) and a crop plant compatibility-improving compound.

Abstract: The present invention relates to novel 4-biphenyl-substituted pyrazolidine-3,5-dione derivatives of the formula (I) in which A, D, G, W, X, Y and Z are as defined above, to a plurality of processes for the preparation and to their use as pesticides and/or herbicides and/or microbicides. Moreover, the invention relates to selective herbicidal compositions comprising both the 4-biphenyl-substituted pyrazolidine-3,5-dione derivatives of the formula (I) and a crop plant compatibility-improving compound.

Abstract: A haloalkylsulfonanilide derivative represented by general formula (I) or a salt thereof wherein R1 represents a halo(C1-C8)alkyl group, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, R9 and R10 represent hydrogen atoms, etc., n represents 1 or 2, A represents an oxygen atom, W represents an oxygen atom, X represents a halogen atom and m represents an integer of 0 to 4, are compounds useful as herbicides having both of remarkable herbicidal effect and characteristics such as excellent crop-weed selectivity.

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 new class of plant growth regulators. In particular, the invention relates to fused azepinone derivative of general formula (I) or an agriculturally acceptable salt thereof wherein X is CO2R2 or H; Y is OH; NHNR3R4, NHNHC(?Z)NR5R6 or NHNHC(?Z)CR7R8R9; or X and Y together with the two carbon atoms to which they are attached form a ring of formula (A) and a method for treatment of plants with such compounds in order to induce growth regulating responses.

Abstract: A haloalkylsulfonanilide derivative represented by general formula (I) or a salt thereof wherein R1 represents a halo(C1-C8)alkyl group, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, R9 and R10 represent hydrogen atoms, etc., n represents 1 or 2, A represents an oxygen atom, W represents an oxygen atom, X represents a halogen atom and m represents an integer of 0 to 4, are compounds useful as herbicides having both of remarkable herbicidal effect and characteristics such as excellent crop-weed selectivity.

Abstract: Compounds of formula wherein the substituents have the meanings given in claim 1, and agronomically tolerable salts, isomers and enantiomers of those compounds, are suitable for use as herbicides.

Abstract: A process for the preparation of [1,4,5]-oxadiazepine derivatives by reaction of N,N?-diacyl-hydrazines with 2,2?-disubstituted diethyl ethers to form 4,5-diacyl-[1,4,5]-oxadiazepines and reaction of the latter compounds with a hydrohalic acid.

Abstract: A crystal comprising a biotin carboxylase domain of acetyl-CoA carboxylase is described, along with a computer-based method for identifying compounds that modulates activity of acetyl-CoA carboxylase, a computer-based method for rationally designing a compound that modulates activity of acetyl-CoA carboxylase, along with compounds produced by such methods, as well as compositions and methods of use thereof.

Abstract: The invention relates to novel 4-biphenyl-substituted 4-substituted pyrazolidine-3,5-diones of the formula (I) in which A, D, G, W, X, Y and Z are as defined above, to processes and intermediates for their preparation and to their use as pesticides and/or microbicides and/or herbicides. Moreover, the invention relates to selective herbicidal compositions comprising both the 4-biphenyl-substituted 4-substituted pyrazolidine-3,5-diones and a crop plant compatibility-improving compound.

Abstract: Compounds of formula wherein the substituents have the meanings given in claim 1, and agronomically tolerable salts, isomers and enantiomers of those compounds, are suitable for use as herbicides.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a new class of plant growth regulators. In particular, the invention relates to fused azepinone derivative of general formula (I) or an agriculturally acceptable salt thereof wherein X is CO2R2 or H; Y is OH; NHNR3R4, NHNHC(=Z)NR5R6 or NHNHC(=Z)CR7R8R9; or X and Y together with the two carbon atoms to which they are attached form a ring of formula (A) and a method for treatment of plants with such compounds in order to induce growth regulating responses.

Abstract: The present invention relates to novel 4-biphenyl-substituted pyrazolidine-3,5-dione derivatives of the formula (I) in which A, D, G, W, X, Y and Z are as defined above, to a plurality of processes for the preparation and to their use as pesticides and/or herbicides and/or microbicides. Moreover, the invention relates to selective herbicidal compositions comprising both the 4-biphenyl-substituted pyrazolidine-3,5-dione derivatives of the formula (I) and a crop plant compatibility-improving compound.

Abstract: The present invention generally relates to methods of inhibiting ethylene responses in plants and plant materials, and particularly relates to methods of inhibiting various ethylene responses including plant maturation and degradation, by exposing plants to cyclopropene derivatives and compositions thereof wherein the cyclopropene is associated with another ring system.

Abstract: Compounds of formula wherein the substituents have the meanings given in claim 1, and agronomically tolerable salts, isomers and enantiomer of those compounds, are suitable for use as herbicides.

Abstract: The invention relates to novel cyclic imines of the formula (I) in which Ar1 and Ar2 each represent substituted phenyl and n represents 1, 2 or 3, to a plurality of processes for their preparation and to their use as pesticides.

Abstract: The present invention provides halogenated calixpyrrole, calixpyridinopyrrole, and calixpyridine macrocycles having 4-12 pyrrolic rings with greater stability, enhanced anion and neutral molecule binding affinity, and different binding selectivites as compared to their nonhalogenated congeners as judged from 1H NMR, 19F NMR and fluorescence emission spectroscopic analyses.

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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: Compounds of the formula I in which: where: X is CH or N; Y is O; S, S═O or NR5; Z is OR2, SR2, N(R3)R4; or Y and Z together form 5- to 7-membered ring which contains, 2 or 3 hetero atoms O and/or N and which is unsubstituted or substituted by C1-C4alkyl, halo-C1-C4alkyl, halogen, ═O or cyclopropyl; V is a direct bond or C1-C6alkylene, which is unsubstituted or substituted by C1-C3alkyl, C2-C3alkylidene or C3-C6cycloalkylidene; U is O, S, NR7, SO or SO2; W is substituted or unsubstituted aryl or substituted or unsubstituted heteroaryl; R1 is cyclopropyl, C1C6alkyl or halo-C1-C6alkyl; R2 and R3 independently of one another are C1-C6alkyl or halo-C1-C6alkyl; R4 and R5 independently of one another are hydrogen, C1-C6alkyl or C1-C6alkoxy; R7 is hydrogen, C1-C6alkyl, benzyl, C1-C6alkylcarbonyl, halo-C1-C6alkylcarbonyl, halo-C2-C6alkenylcarbonyl; R21 and R22 independently of one another are hydrogen, halogen, C1-C8alkyl or C1-C8alkoxy or C1-C8alkylthio; R23, R24, R25, R26 i

Abstract: A compound represented by the formula (I) or its salt and herbicidal and desiccant use thereof: wherein X, Y are independently hydrogen, halogen, cyano, nito, or (C1-6)haloalkyl; Z is oxygen or sulfur; and

Abstract: A 6-phenoxy picolinic acid alkylidene hydrazide derivative, a process for producing the derivative and a herbicide containing the derivative as an effective ingredient. Such a compound is a novel compound and is useful as an effective ingredient of herbicides.

Abstract: Thiadiazabicyclodecanes of formula (I) wherein, Z is oxygen or sulfur; R is an optional substituent and W is an optionally condensed or substituted phenyl radical and the salts, complexes and stereisomers thereof, have good selective pre- and post-emergence herbicidal properties.

Abstract: New 3-arylpyrrolidine-2,4-dione derivatives of the formula (I): ##STR1## in which the variables A, B, E, R, X, Y, Z and n are set forth in the specification, are useful as insecticides, acaricides, and herbicides.

Abstract: Pyrimidinyl- and triazinyl-salicylamides of the formula I ##STR1## in which the meanings of the radicals are described in claim 1, and the salts of compounds of the formula I which have a free hydroxycarbonyl group have a herbicidal and plant-growth regulating action. They are suitable as active substances in weed killers and in compositions for positively influencing the growth of crop plants.