Abstract: A method for controlling the growth of blue algae in a basin relates to the field of the restoration and protection of the natural ecology on the earth's surface. An ecological water treatment system was constructed for the basin with microorganisms, plants, animals, fillers and the like as main elements by building a novel ecological slope protection at the land-lake ecozone along the banks of the basin and planting eucalyptus in the basin water and/or on the bank of the basin, thereby effectively realizing the efficient nitrogen and phosphorus removal from the basin, controlling the spread of blue algae and improving the environmental water quality.

Abstract: The invention relates to a liquid dispersion comprising (i) at least one growth regulator which has a solubility in vegetable oil of about 0.1 wt % or less; (ii) an organic hydrophobic carrier, preferably a vegetable oil, hydrocarbon oil or paraffin oil, or a derivative thereof; wherein the at least one growth regulator which is insoluble or unstable in water, is present in the liquid dispersion in an amount exceeding 0.1 wt %; and wherein more than 90% of the particles of said growth regulator has a particle size of between 1-7 ?m; wherein the dispersion further comprises (iii) an emulsifier which stabilizes the dispersion in the organic carrier, and which causes the concentrate to be water miscible and self-emulsifying when diluted in water in a suitable dilution, such as for example a 1:50 dilution or higher dilution; wherein the dispersion is essentially water free.

Abstract: The invention relates to herbicidal compositions comprising an effective amount of an active ingredient combination composed of (a) at least one substituted thien-3-ylsulfonylamino(thio)carbonyl-triazolin(thi) one of the formula (I) in which R1, R2 and R3 are as defined in the description, —or salts of the compounds of the formula (I)— and (b) one or more compounds from a second group of herbicides which comprises selected 4-HPPD inhibitors, and, if desired, additionally (c) a crop plant tolerance promoter compound. The invention further relates to the use of the compositions for controlling unwanted plant growth and to a process for producing the compositions.

Abstract: A proton pump inhibitor containing a compound represented by the formula (I) wherein X and Y are the same or different and each is a bond or a spacer having 1 to 20 carbon atoms in the main chain, R1is an optionally substituted hydrocarbon group or an optionally substituted heterocyclic group, R2, R3 and R4 are the same or different and each is a hydrogen atom, an optionally substituted hydrocarbon group, an optionally substituted thienyl group, an optionally substituted benzo[b]thienyl group, an optionally substituted furyl group, an optionally substituted pyridyl group, an optionally substituted pyrazolyl group, an optionally substituted pyrimidinyl group, an acyl group, a halogen atom, a cyano group or a nitro group, R5 and R6 are the same or different and each is a hydrogen atom or an optionally substituted hydrocarbon group, which has a superior proton pump action and shows an antiulcer activity and the like after conversion to a proton pump inhibitor in the body, or a salt thereof, or a prodrug ther

Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for preparing a high-purity sulfonamide compound and an intermediate of the sulfonamide compound. The method comprises the following steps: a, taking a crude product of a sulfonamide compound (I) as an initial raw material, and enabling the raw material to react with a compound of a formula (II) in presence of alkali and a catalyst so as to synthesize an intermediate of a formula (III); and b, enabling the compound represented by the formula (III) to react with alkali or acid, thereby obtaining the high-purity sulfonamide compound (I).

Abstract: The invention relates to N-(1,2,4-triazol-3-yl)arylcarboxamides of formula I and their use as herbicides. In said formula I, X represents N or CR2, whereas R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6 and R7 represent groups such as hydrogen, halogen or organic groups such as alkyl or phenyl.

Abstract: The present patent application discloses at least the compounds according to Formula I or Formula Ib shown below, or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein ring B, JB, n, JD, J, o, X, RC and RA are as described herein.

Abstract: The present invention discloses compounds of Formula (I): wherein the variables in Formula I are defined as described herein. Also disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions containing such compounds and methods for using the compounds of Formula I in the prevention or treatment of HCV infection.

Abstract: The invention relates to herbicidal compositions, their preparation, and their use for controlling unwanted vegetation. The compositions include an effective amount of an active compound combination that includes: (a) a substituted thien-3-yl-sulphonylaminocarbonyltriazolinone of formula (I-2) or salts thereof; and (b) at least one of the known herbicides listed in the disclosure and, (c) optionally a safener.

Abstract: To provide a method which exerts excellent controlling effects on noxious organisms in a field of soybean, corn or cotton. A method for controlling noxious organisms in a field of soybean, corn or cotton, wherein at least one PPO inhibitor compound selected from the group consisting of flumioxazin, sulfentrazone, saflufenacil, oxyfluorfen, fomesafen-sodium, and a compound represented by formula (I): is applied to the field before, at or after sowing a soybean, corn or cotton seed treated with ethaboxam.

Abstract: To provide a method which exerts excellent controlling effects on noxious organisms in a field of soybean, corn or cotton. A method for controlling noxious organisms in a field of soybean, corn or cotton, wherein at least one PPO inhibitor compound selected from the group consisting of flumioxazin, sulfentrazone, saflufenacil, oxyfluorfen, fomesafen-sodium, and a compound represented by formula (I): is applied to the field before, at or after sowing a soybean, corn or cotton seed treated with fludioxonil.

Abstract: Compounds and methods are described herein that are effective to modulate plant response (e.g., plant susceptibility) to environmentally-induced stress. The compounds and methods described herein advantageously may be used to modulate environmental stress resistance in a wide variety of plants. Environmental stresses include, for example, high light intensity (UV exposure), temperature (e.g., high heat), high soil salinity, and low soil moisture (e.g., drought). As used herein, environmental stresses include any conditions that result in increased generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and accumulation of ROS in the plant cells. The compounds described herein that are effective to modulate resistance to the stress prevent, directly or indirectly, or increase phosphorylation of Tyr248 of the RACK1A protein.

Abstract: The present invention related to an agrochemical composition comprising at least one protoporphyrinogen-IX oxidase inhibitor as defined in the claims and description and at least one inhibitor of complex II of the respiratory chain as defined in the claims and description. The invention further relates to the use of this composition for controlling undesired vegetation, for the desiccation and/or defoliation of plants, for controlling phytopathogenic fungi and for increasing the health of plants. The invention further relates to a method for controlling undesired vegetation, to a method for the desiccation and/or defoliation of plants, to a method for controlling phytopathogenic fungi and to a method for increasing the health of plants by using said composition.

Abstract: Salts of N-(tetrazol-5-yl)- and N-(triazol-5-yl)arylcarboxamides of the general formula (I) are described as herbicides. In this formula (I), W, X, Z and R represent radicals such as hydrogen, organic radicals such as alkyl, and other radicals such as halogen. A and B each represent nitrogen or carbon. M+ represents a cation.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of controlling pests such as weeds in a field of crop such as wheat, tomato, egg and bell pepper. According to the present invention, pests in such fields can be efficiently controlled.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of controlling pests such as weeds in a soybean field, corn field, or cotton field. According to the present invention, pests in soybean fields, corn fields, or cotton fields can be efficiently controlled.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an ALS inhibitor herbicide tolerant B. napus plant, progeny and parts thereof comprising a mutation of an acetolactate synthase I gene and a mutation of an acetolactate synthase III gene.

Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds of Formula (I), or an agronomically acceptable salt of said compounds wherein R1, R2, X, R4, R5 and R7 are as defined herein. The invention further relates to herbicidal compositions which comprise a compound of Formula (I), and to their use for controlling weeds, in particular in crops of useful plants.

Abstract: There are described 4-nitro-substituted N-(tetrazol-5-yl)-, N-(triazol-5-yl)- and N-(1,3,4-oxadiazol-2-yl)arylcarboxamides of the general formula (I) as herbicides. In this formula (I), X, Y and W are radicals such as hydrogen, organic radicals such as alkyl, and other radicals such as halogen. A is N and CY.

Abstract: The invention relates to sulfin- and sulfonimidoylbenzamides of general formula (S) used as herbicides. In said formula (I), R, R?, R?, X, W and Z represent radicals such as hydrogen, organic radicals such as alkyl, and other radicals such as halogens. Q represents a tetrazolyl-, triazolyl or oxadiazolyl radicals.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of an agrochemical composition comprising at least one specific herbicide and at least one specific fungicide for controlling undesired vegetation in cereal cultures and for the desiccation and/or defoliation of cereals. The invention further relates to a method for controlling undesired vegetation in cereal cultures and to a method for the desiccation and/or defoliation of cereal plants.

Abstract: Sulfinylaminobenzamides of the general formula (I) as herbicides are described. In this formula (I), R, R?, R?, X, W and Z are radicals such as hydrogen, organic radicals such as alkyl, and other radicals such as halogen. Q is a tetrazolyl, triazolyl or oxadiazolyl radical.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a method which exerts the excellent controlling effect on a weed, without causing significant phytotoxicity on sugar cane, in a sugar cane field. According to the present invention, there is provided a method of controlling a weed in a sugar cane field, comprising applying one or more PPO-inhibiting compounds selected from the group consisting of flumioxazin, sulfentrazone saflufenacil, oxyfluorfen, fomesafen and a salt thereof oxadiazon and a compound of the formula (I): to a field before or after planting with a stem cutting of sugar cane having only one node.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for controlling weeds in a sugar cane field, including applying to a field before or after planting stem cuttings of sugar cane having only one node, at least one herbicide selected from the group consisting of ametryn, atrazine, simazine, alachlor, metolachlor, S-metolachlor, asulam, metribuzin, trifluralin, pendimethalin, tebuthiuron, diuron, hexazinone, amicarbazone, imazapic, trifloxysulfuron-sodium, iodosulfuron-methyl-sodium, halosulfuron-methyl, ethoxysulfuron, carfentrazone-ethyl, isoxaflutole, bicyclopyrone, mesotrione, picloram and salts thereof and esters thereof, 2,4-D and salts and esters thereof, dicamba and salts and esters thereof, clomazone, MSMA, paraquat, diquat, glufosinate, glufosinate-ammonium, glufosinate-P and salts thereof, and glyphosate and salts thereof. The present invention provides an excellent effect of controlling weeds without causing phytotoxicity problematic to sugar cane in a sugar cane field.

Abstract: What is described are oxime ether-substituted benzoylamides of the general formula (I) as herbicides. In this formula (I), R, Y and Y are radicals such as hydrogen, organic radicals such as alkyl, and other radicals such as halogen. Q is a tetrazolyl, triazolyl or oxadiazolyl radical.

Abstract: 5-phenyl-substituted N-(tetrazol-5-yl)- and N-(triazol-5-yl)arylcarboxamides of the general formula (I) are described as herbicides. In this formula (I), W, X, Y, Z and R are radicals such as hydrogen, organic radicals such as alkyl, and other radicals such as halogen. A and B are N and CY.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for post-emergence selective weed control in turf sites by applying an herbicidal composition comprising sulfentrazone and quinclorac to a locus where weeds are present.

Abstract: N-(Tetrazol-5-yl)- and N-(triazol-5-yl)arylcarboxamides of the general formula (I) are described as herbicides. In this formula (I), X, Y, Z and R represent radicals such as hydrogen, organic radicals such as alkyl, and other radicals such as halogen. A and B represent N and CY.

Abstract: This invention relates generally to the detection of genetic differences among soybeans. More particularly, the invention relates to soybean quantitative trait loci (QTL) for tolerance to protoporphyrinogen oxidase inhibitors, to soybean plants possessing these QTLs, which map to a novel chromosomal region, and to genetic markers that are indicative of phenotypes associated with protoporphyrinogen oxidase inhibitor tolerance. Methods and compositions for use of these markers in genotyping of soybean and selection are also disclosed.

Abstract: N-(1,2,5-Oxadiazol-3-yl)-, N-(tetrazol-5-yl)- and N-(triazol-5-yl)bicycloarylcarboxamides of the general formula (I) are described as herbicides. In this formula (I), R3, R4 and R5 are each radicals such as hydrogen, organic radicals such as alkyl, and other radicals such as halogen. Q is a heterocycle. X and Y are each oxygen and sulfur.

Abstract: The invention relates to agrochemical compositions comprising new biodegradable bisaminopropylamides of formula (I) or of formula (II) and to their uses in detergent compositions. In the agrochemical compositions the bisaminopropylamides act as adjuvant for the agrochemically active compounds such as pesticides, growth regulators or fertilizers.

Abstract: The present invention provides herbicide-tolerant winter-type Brassica plants. The present invention also provides methods for controlling the growth of weeds by applying an herbicide to which herbicide-tolerant plants of the invention are tolerant. Plants of the invention express an AHAS enzyme that is tolerant to the action of one or more AHAS enzyme inhibitors.

Abstract: To provide a method which exerts excellent controlling effects on noxious organisms in a field of soybean, corn or cotton. A method for controlling noxious organisms in a field of soybean, corn or cotton, wherein at least one PPO inhibitor compound selected from the group consisting of flumioxazin, sulfentrazone, saflufenacil, oxyfluorfen, fomesafen-sodium, and a compound represented by formula (I): is applied to the field before, at or after sowing a soybean, corn or cotton seed treated with ethaboxam.

Abstract: To provide a method which exerts excellent controlling effects on noxious organisms in a field of soybean, corn or cotton. A method for controlling noxious organisms in a field of soybean, corn or cotton, wherein at least one PPO inhibitor compound selected from the group consisting of flumioxazin, sulfentrazone, saflufenacil, oxyfluorfen, fomesafen-sodium, and a compound represented by formula (I): is applied to the field before, at or after sowing a soybean, corn or cotton seed treated with fludioxonil.

Abstract: The invention relates to herbicidal compositions, their preparation, and their use for controlling unwanted vegetation. The compositions include an effective amount of an active compound combination that includes: (a) a substituted thien-3-yl-sulphonylaminocarbonyltriazolinone of formula (I-2) ?or salts thereof; and (b) at least one of the known herbicides listed in the disclosure and, (c) optionally a safener.

Abstract: Use of N-(tetrazol-4-yl)- or N-(triazol-3-yl)arylcarboxamides of formula (I) or salts thereof for controlling unwanted plants in areas of transgenic crop plants being tolerant to HPPD inhibitor herbicides by containing one or more chimeric gene(s) comprising (I) a DNA sequence encoding hydroxyphenylpyruvate dioxygenase (HPPD) derived from a member of a group of organisms consisting of (a) Avena, (b) Pseudomonas, (c) Synechococcoideae, (d) Blepharismidae, (e) Rhodococcus, (f) Picrophilaceae, (g) Kordia, or (II) comprising one or more mutated DNA sequences of HPPD encoding genes of the before defined organisms.

Abstract: A method for controlling noxious organisms in a field of soybean or corn, comprising the steps of: treating soybean or corn seeds with at least one neonicotinoid compound selected from the group consisting of clothianidin, thiamethoxam, imidacloprid, dinotefuran, nitenpyram, acetamiprid, and thiacloprid, and treating the field with at least one PPO inhibitor compound selected from the group consisting of flumioxazin, sulfentrazone, saflufenacil, oxyfluorfen, and 3-(4-chloro-6-fluoro-2-trifluoromethylbenzimidazol-7-yl)-1-methyl-6-trifluoromethyl-2,4-(1H,3H)pyrimidinedione before or after the soybean or corn seeds treated with the neonicotinoid compound are sown in the field.

Abstract: To provide a method which shows excellent effects in controlling pests in a field of soybean, corn or cotton. A method for controlling weeds in a field of soybean, corn or cotton, wherein the field of soybean, corn or cotton is treated with at least one PPO-inhibiting compound selected from the group consisting of flumioxazin, sulfentrazone, saflufenacil, oxyfluorfen, fomesafen-sodium, and the compound of the formula (I): before, at or after seeding with a seed of soybean, corn or cotton treated with one or more fungicidal compounds selected from the group consisting of tolclophos-methyl, thiram, captan, carbendazim, thiophanate-methyl, and (RS)-2-methoxy-N-methyl-2-[alpha-(2,5-xylyloxy)-o-tolyl]ace tamide.

Abstract: To provide a method which shows excellent effects in controlling pests in a field of soybean, corn or cotton. A method for controlling weeds in a field of soybean, corn or cotton, wherein the field of soybean, corn or cotton is treated with at least one PPO-inhibiting compound selected from the group consisting of flumioxazin, sulfentrazone, saflufenacil, oxyfluorfen, fomesafen-sodium, and the compound of the formula (I): before, at or after seeding with a seed of soybean, corn or cotton treated with one or more nematicides.

Abstract: To provide a method which shows excellent effects in controlling pests in a field of soybean, corn or cotton. A method for controlling weeds in a field of soybean, corn or cotton, wherein the field of soybean, corn or cotton is treated with at least one PPO-inhibiting compound selected from the group consisting of flumioxazin, sulfentrazone, saflufenacil, oxyfluorfen, fomesafen-sodium, and the compound of the formula (I): before, at or after seeding with a seed of soybean, corn or cotton treated with one or more insecticidal compounds selected from the group consisting of fipronil, ethiprole, flupyradifurone, sulfoxaflor, beta-cyfluthrin, tefluthrin, and chlorpyrifos.

Abstract: Compositions and methods comprising polynucleotides and polypeptides having ALS activity and tolerance to at least one ALS inhibitor are provided. In specific embodiments, the sequence has an increased preference for 2-ketobutyrate, when compared to an appropriate control, such as for example, HRA, and/or a preference for 2-ketobutyrate similar to a native ALS. Further provided are nucleic acid constructs, plants, plant cells, explants, seeds and grain having the ALS inhibitor tolerant sequences. Various methods of employing the ALS inhibitor tolerant sequences are provided. Such methods include methods for producing an ALS inhibitor tolerant plant, plant cell, explant or seed and methods of controlling weeds in a field containing a crop employing the plants and/or seeds disclosed herein.

Abstract: The present invention relates to novel water-dispersed agrochemical formulations, for example water-based suspension concentrates, of active agrochemical ingredients, comprising a penetrant and a thickener from the class of the anionic polysaccharides which contains, as the repetitive base unit in the main chain, four sugar molecules (glucose, glucuronic acid, glucose, rhamnose), to a process for producing these formulations and to the use thereof for application of the active ingredients present.

Abstract: Soybean plants, germplasm, and seed comprising a mutant acetolactate synthase gene conferring improved herbicide tolerance, molecular markers useful for identifying and, optionally, selecting soybean plants displaying tolerance, improved tolerance, or susceptibility to a herbicide, and methods of their use are provided. Also provided are isolated polynucleotides, probes, kits, systems, and the like, useful for carrying out the methods described herein.

Abstract: The present invention relates generally to the use of biological or chemical control agents with for controlling insects and nematodes and to methods particularly useful for combating insects or nematodes and/or increasing crop yield in plants that are at least partially resistant to one or more parasitic nematodes or insects.

Abstract: A method of controlling a weed, which exhibits high herbicidal activity, without causing significant phytotoxicity on switchgrass, miscanthus, giant reed, reed canarygrass, blue stem, erianthus, napier grass or spartina.

Abstract: Provided is a method which exerts an excellent effect in controlling a pest in a field of soybean, corn or cotton.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an inhibitor for tobacco axillary bud growth, the inhibitor comprising, as an active ingredient, one or more kinds of very-long chain fatty acid synthesis inhibitors such as a chloroacetamide-based herbicide, fentrazamide, cafenstrole or indanofan; an inhibitor for tobacco axillary bud growth, the inhibitor comprising the aforesaid very-long chain fatty acid synthesis inhibitor together with clorthal-dimethyl or an aliphatic alcohol having 6 to 20 carbon atoms; and a method for inhibiting tobacco axillary bud growth which comprises applying the inhibitor for tobacco axillary bud growth. The inhibitor for tobacco axillary bud growth of the present invention shows sustained drug efficacy at a low concentration, induces neither chemical injury nor disease, and can contribute to the improvement in labor productivity.

Abstract: Provided is a method which exerts an excellent effect in controlling a pest in a field of soybean, corn or cotton, using a SDHI compound and a PPO-inhibiting compound.

Abstract: Provided is a method which exerts an excellent effect in controlling a pest in a field of cotton, using a neonicotinoid compound, an azole compound, a strobilurin compound, and/or a metalaxyl compound, and a PPO inhibiting compound.

Abstract: The resent invention relates to a method of controlling weeds in crops of rice, which comprises applying compound A-13, whose structure is, to the plants or to the locus thereof; a method of controlling Echinochloa weeds and/or Leptochloa weeds in crops of useful plants, which comprises applying compound A-13 to the plants or to the locus thereof; and a herbicidal composition containing compound A-13.