Benzene Ring Containing Patents (Class 504/321)
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Patent number: 9012365Abstract: The present invention generally relates to a method for minimizing the formation of insoluble salts of phenoxy herbicides. The method comprises (1) mixing a compatibility agent, amine salts of phenoxy acid herbicides, and a chemical containing non-amine cations in a aqueous system to form a stable and non-nozzle plugging solution; and (2) application of said stable and non-nozzle plugging solution onto target plants.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2007Date of Patent: April 21, 2015Assignee: Akzo Nobel N.V.Inventors: Jinxia Susan Sun, Shawn Zhu, Shuaib A. Khan
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Patent number: 8835357Abstract: The present invention relates to an oil-in-water emulsion, comprising oily globules that include at least one agriculturally active ingredient, in which the oily globules of the emulsion and are coated with a polymeric adsorption layer. The polymeric adsorption layer coating the oily globules includes (1) at least one polymeric surface-active agent having an HLB values in the range of about 16 to about 18, and (2) at least one ionic surface-active agent. The oily globules of the emulsion have mean particle diameter of less than about 800 nanometers, are resistant to Ostwald ripening and are well suited for the treatment of plants. Agriculturally active ingredients that can be used with the emulsion include, pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, mitocides, bactericides and the like. The invention further includes methods of using the inventive oil-in-water emulsions to treat plants and on surfaces adjacent to plants, plant pests or other pests.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2012Date of Patent: September 16, 2014Assignee: Dow AgroSciences, LLC.Inventors: David G. Ouse, Holger Tank, Wen Xu
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Publication number: 20140194289Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of choline chloride in a formulation comprising at least one agrochemical active ingredient, as a bio-activator to increase the penetration of said agrochemical active ingredient in a plant.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2012Publication date: July 10, 2014Applicant: Rhodia OperationsInventors: Thierry Sclapari, Valerio Bramati, Ambrogio Erba
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Publication number: 20140051571Abstract: Provided are bioactive compositions and metabolites derived from Bacillus and particularly Bacillus megaterium cultures responsible for controlling pests as well as their methods of use for controlling pests. Further provided are pesticidal Bacillus megaterium strains.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2013Publication date: February 20, 2014Inventors: Ratnakar Asolkar, Ana Lucia Cordova-Kreylos, Margarita Rodriguez, Carly Todd, Debora Wilk, Pamela Marrone
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Patent number: 8513161Abstract: Treatment with N-(2-phenylethyl)succinamic acid or its salts protects against inhibition of growth by a neonicotinoid compound applied as a seed treatment or applied directly on or near the root zone of the seedling.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2011Date of Patent: August 20, 2013Assignees: Valent Biosciences Corporation, Valent U.S.A. CorporationInventors: Franklin Paul Silverman, Dale O. Wilson, Jr., Jennifer C. Kochan, Nicole Higgs, Peter D. Petracek, Prem Warrior, Karen S. Arthur
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Patent number: 8420574Abstract: N-(phenylethyl)succinamic acid or its salts is applied as a seed treatment or applied directly on or near the root zone of the seedling or growing plant to protect plant growth in the presence of selected herbicides.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2010Date of Patent: April 16, 2013Assignee: Valent BioSciences CorporationInventors: Franklin Paul Silverman, Jennifer C. Kochan, Dale O. Wilson, Jr., Nicole Higgs, Asako Iida, Peter D. Petracek, Gregory D. Venburg
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Patent number: 8420573Abstract: This invention concerns novel dispersants that are the reaction products of succinic anhydride-containing resins with certain amines. These water soluble dispersants have been found to be unique and highly effective dispersants for water insoluble agricultural suspension concentrate formulations.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2012Date of Patent: April 16, 2013Assignee: Huntsman Petrochemicals LLCInventor: Alan J. Stern
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Patent number: 8361929Abstract: The present invention provides a method and a composition for restoring pollen fertility by suppressing formation insufficiency in a pollen formation process due to a high-temperature or low-temperature stress. The present invention provides a fertility restorative agent comprising an auxin as an active ingredient, and a method for restoring the fertility of a plants of the family Poaceae, comprising spreading an auxin. Moreover, the present invention provides a fertility restorative agent containing as an active ingredient a substance which inhibits auxin action, and a method for restoring the fertility of rice plant, including spreading a substance which inhibits auxin action.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2011Date of Patent: January 29, 2013Assignee: Tohoku UniversityInventors: Atsushi Higashitani, Masao Watanabe, Tadashi Sakata
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Patent number: 8338339Abstract: A means for producing ensiled crops with reduced proteolysis by supplying an o-diphenol compound and ensuring a supply of polyphenol oxidase in the material at the time of ensilaging.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2003Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of AgricultureInventors: Ronald D. Hatfield, Richard E. Muck, Michael L. Sullivan, Deborah A. Samac
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Patent number: 8309493Abstract: To provide a polyphenol-content-increasing agent which increases the content of polyphenol in a plant. A polyphenol-content-increasing agent for plant, containing, as an active ingredient, a 5-aminolevulinic acid or a derivative thereof represented by the following formula (1): (Chem 1) R2R1NCH2COCH2CH2COR3??(1) wherein R1 and R2 each independently represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an acyl group, an alkoxycarbonyl group, an aryl group, or an aralkyl group; R3 represents a hydroxyl group, an alkoxy group which may have a substituent, an acyloxy group, an alkoxycarbonyloxy group, an aryloxy group, an aralkyloxy group, or an amino group, or a salt thereof.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2007Date of Patent: November 13, 2012Assignee: Cosmo Oil Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masao Kondo, Naomi Aiba, Setsuko Miyanari, Masahiro Ishizuka, Tohru Tanaka
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Publication number: 20120220463Abstract: The present invention relates to crystalline complexes of 4-hydroxy benzoic acid and selected pesticides. It also relates to agriculturally useful compositions of the complexes.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2010Publication date: August 30, 2012Applicant: BASF SEInventors: Heidi Emilia Saxell, Rafel Israels, Ansgar Schaefer, Matthias Bratz, Hans Wolfgang Hoeffken, Ingo Brode, Elisa Nauha, Maija Nissinen
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Patent number: 8247353Abstract: This invention concerns novel dispersants that are the reaction products of succinic anhydride-containing resins with certain amines. These water soluble dispersants have been found to be unique and highly effective dispersants for water insoluble agricultural suspension concentrate formulations.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2007Date of Patent: August 21, 2012Assignee: Huntsman Petrochemical LLCInventor: Alan J. Stern
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Publication number: 20120184441Abstract: The present invention relates to an oil-in-water emulsion, comprising oily globules that include at least one agriculturally active ingredient, in which the oily globules of the emulsion and are coated with a polymeric adsorption layer. The polymeric adsorption layer coating the oily globules includes (1) at least one polymeric surface-active agent having an HLB values in the range of about 16 to about 18, and (2) at least one ionic surface-active agent. The oily globules of the emulsion have mean particle diameter of less than about 800 nanometers, are resistant to Ostwald ripening and are well suited for the treatment of plants. Agriculturally active ingredients that can be used with the emulsion include, pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, mitocides, bactericides and the like. The invention further includes methods of using the inventive oil-in-water emulsions to treat plants and on surfaces adjacent to plants, plant pests or other pests.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2012Publication date: July 19, 2012Applicant: Dow Agrosciences LLCInventors: David G. Ouse, Holger Tank, Wen Xu
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Patent number: 8207089Abstract: A composition that provides a combination of bactericidal, fungicidal, insecticidal, hormonal and nutritional activity when treating plants in an effective amount. The composition is an aqueous ammonium salicylate, potassium salicylate, and potassium acetate solution consisting essentially of: a first reaction product of salicylic acid and ammonium hydroxide reacted in an aqueous media with ammonium hydroxide and further reacting with a second reaction product made by combining potassium acetate and potassium hydroxide. Urea and primary nutrients, secondary nutrients and micronutrients can be subsequently added to the composition.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2011Date of Patent: June 26, 2012Assignee: Plant Food Systems, Inc.Inventor: Carl J. Fabry
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Patent number: 8188003Abstract: A method of inducing virus tolerance of plants which comprises treating the plants, the soil or seeds with an effective amount of a compound of the formula I.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2005Date of Patent: May 29, 2012Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Harald Köhle, Uwe Conrath, Kai Seehaus, Matthias Niedenbrück, Marco-Antonio Tavares-Rodrigues, Waldemar Sanchez, Edson Begliomini, Claudio Oliveira
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Publication number: 20120108431Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and composition for improving the efficacy of a plant growth regulator by the use of, particularly but not exclusively, anthranilic acid in combination with an additional agrochemically acceptable additive.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2010Publication date: May 3, 2012Applicant: TAMINCO, NAAMLOZE VENNOOTSCHAPInventors: Richard Williams, Peter Roose, Johan Josef De Saegher
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Patent number: 8093185Abstract: Treatment with N-(2-phenylethyl)succinamic acid or its salts protects against inhibition of growth by a neonicotinoid compound applied as a seed treatment or applied directly on or near the root zone of the seedling.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2008Date of Patent: January 10, 2012Assignees: Valent BioSciences Corporation, Valent U.S.A. CorporationInventors: Franklin Paul Silverman, Dale O. Wilson, Jr., Jennifer C. Kochan, Nicole Higgs, Peter D. Petracek, Prem Warrior, Karen S. Arthur
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Patent number: 8084397Abstract: The present invention provides a composition including a polymer nanoparticle and at least one agricultural active compound incorporated with the nanoparticle, wherein the nanoparticle are less than 100 nm in diameter, and the polymer includes a polyelectrolyte.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2010Date of Patent: December 27, 2011Assignee: Vive Nano, Inc.Inventors: Fugang Li, Hung Pham, Darren J. Anderson
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Publication number: 20110306498Abstract: The present invention provides a method and a composition for restoring pollen fertility by suppressing formation insufficiency in a pollen formation process due to a high-temperature or low-temperature stress. The present invention provides a fertility restorative agent comprising an auxin as an active ingredient, and a method for restoring the fertility of a plants of the family Poaceae, comprising spreading an auxin. Moreover, the present invention provides a fertility restorative agent containing as an active ingredient a substance which inhibits auxin action, and a method for restoring the fertility of rice plant, including spreading a substance which inhibits auxin action.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2011Publication date: December 15, 2011Inventors: Atsushi Higashitani, Masao Watanabe, Tadashi Sakata
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Patent number: 8067337Abstract: An agricultural chemical composition which enables a wide range of herbicidal compounds including ones showing phytotoxicity to crop plants, etc. upon mere application to exhibit a sufficient herbicidal effect and to show reduced or no phytotoxicity to the crop plants. The agricultural chemical composition comprises (A) a herbicidal compound selected from the group consisting of sulfonylurea compounds, sulfonamide compounds, chloroacetanilide compounds, thiocarbamate compounds, pyrimidinyloxy(thio)benzoic acid compounds, tetrazolinone compounds, pyrazole compounds, cyclohexanedione compounds, phenoxycarboxylic acid compounds, oxazinone compounds, and difluoromethanesulfonylanilide compounds or salts thereof and (B) a compound selected among benzoic acid compounds.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2005Date of Patent: November 29, 2011Assignee: Kumiai Chemical Industry Co., LtdInventors: Toshihiro Ikeuchi, Tetsuo Ohkawa, Shuji Ohno, Hiroshi Kawasaki, Ryo Hanai, Yasunori Ogawa, Makoto Fujinami
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Publication number: 20100257636Abstract: Compositions including phenylalanine, analogues, and phenylalanine precursors protect plants against environmental stressors. Delivery systems and methods of treating are provided. A method of protecting plants against environmental and/or biological stressors includes administering a composition including phenylalanine, a phenylalanine precursor or other skikimate pathway or phenylpropanoid pathway compound, or an amino acid that can be converted to phenylalanine to at least one root, at least one germinating seed, or at least one epidermal surface of a plant. Administration of the composition to the root, seed, or plant improves or restores at least one growth characteristic of the plant when the plant is exposed to an environmental stressor such as ultra-violet radiation, cold, drought, salt, heat, fungus, beetles (e.g., Japanese beetles), hormones, bacteria, arthropods, and worms (e.g., soybean cyst nematode) or products of biotic organisms.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2008Publication date: October 7, 2010Applicant: The Board of Trustees of the University of ILLinoisInventors: Katherine Warpeha, Lon Kaufman
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Publication number: 20100210465Abstract: The present invention provides a composition including a polymer nanoparticle and at least one agricultural active compound incorporated with the nanoparticle, wherein the nanoparticle are less than 100 nm in diameter, and the polymer includes a polyelectrolyte.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 6, 2010Publication date: August 19, 2010Applicant: VIVE NANO, INC.Inventors: Fugang LI, Hung PHAM, Darren J. ANDERSON
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Publication number: 20100115663Abstract: The present invention provides for compositions and methods for producing crop plants that are resistant to herbicides. In particular, the present invention provides for sorghum plants, plant tissues and plant seeds that contain altered acetyl-CoA carboxylase (ACC) genes and proteins that are resistant to inhibition by herbicides that normally inhibit the activity of the ACC protein.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2008Publication date: May 6, 2010Inventors: Mitchell R. Tuinstra, Kassim Al-Khatib
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Publication number: 20100105557Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2008Publication date: April 29, 2010Inventors: Christine Habicher, Michael Merk, Egon Haden
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Publication number: 20090111698Abstract: Treatment with N-(2-phenylethyl)succinamic acid or its salts protects against inhibition of growth by a neonicotinoid compound applied as a seed treatment or applied directly on or near the root zone of the seedling.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2008Publication date: April 30, 2009Inventors: Franklin Paul Silverman, Dale O. Wilson, JR., Jennifer C. Kochan, Nicole Higgs, Peter D. Petracek, Prem Warrior, Karen S. Arthur
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Publication number: 20080254987Abstract: This invention relates to the use of selected adjuvants to improve the performance of S-(+)-abscisic acid (S-ABA, ABA) or ABA salts on plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2008Publication date: October 16, 2008Inventors: Xiaozhong Liu, Daniel F. Heiman, Derek D. Woolard, Rick Hopkins, Yueh Wang, Benjamin A. Belkind, Prem Warrior, Gregory D. Venburg, Peter D. Petracek
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Publication number: 20080254993Abstract: This invention describes the use of analogs or derivatives of abscisic acid or their salts in combination with gibberellin biosynthesis inhibitors to improve the performance of gibberellin synthesis inhibitors, and to increase water conservation in plants such as turfgrass.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2008Publication date: October 16, 2008Inventors: Xiaozhong Liu, Peter D. Petracek, Daniel F. Heiman, Mark Beach, Prem Warrior
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Publication number: 20080227645Abstract: The present invention describes a method for increasing the drought tolerance of selected ornamental plants comprising administering abscisic acid (ABA) or its salts to said plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2008Publication date: September 18, 2008Inventors: Derek D. Woolard, Peter D. Petracek, Craig Campbell
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Publication number: 20080227644Abstract: The present invention is directed to the treatment of a plant at the flowering or fruiting stage to reduce the number of fruits that the plant sets and grows to maturity with an effective amount of abscisic acid or its salts, derivatives or analogs.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2008Publication date: September 18, 2008Inventors: Derek D. Woolard, Peter D. Petracek, Michael Schroeder
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Patent number: 7094735Abstract: Described are herbicide compositions, in particular, herbicide compositions that are prepared from microemulsions containing herbicide compound in acid form, and methods of their preparation and use.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2004Date of Patent: August 22, 2006Assignee: Platte Chemical Co.Inventors: Anthony E. Herold, Richard A. Beardmore, Scott K. Parrish
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Patent number: 7087552Abstract: The present invention relates to methods for creating, manipulating, modifying and enhancing floral scent component to plants and cut flowers.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2002Date of Patent: August 8, 2006Assignees: Ball Horticultural Company, Purdue Research FoundationInventors: Alan Blowers, Natalia Dudareva
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Patent number: 6906004Abstract: Described are herbicide compositions and methods for their preparation and use, in particular, herbicide compositions and methods relating to herbicide compositions containing herbicide compounds in acid form, and further including an acidifying agent.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2002Date of Patent: June 14, 2005Assignee: Platte Chemical Co.Inventors: Scott K. Parrish, Richard A Beardmore, Anthony E Herold
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Publication number: 20040242697Abstract: A method for reducing pests in an object or area by applying to the object or area a pest reducing effective amount of iodoacetic acid, bromoacetic acid, 2-iodoacetamide, 2-bromoacetamide, or mixtures thereof. The pests may be, for example, fungi, insects, nematodes, bacteria, weeds, or mixtures thereof. The object or area may be, for example, soil, structures, agricultural commodities, plants, or mixtures thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2004Publication date: December 2, 2004Inventors: Erin N. Rosskopf, Leonard L. Therrien, William H. Basinger
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Patent number: 6803345Abstract: Described are herbicide compositions, in particular, herbicide compositions that are prepared from microemulsions containing herbicide compound in acid form, and methods of their preparation and use.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2002Date of Patent: October 12, 2004Assignee: Platte Chemical Co.Inventors: Anthony E. Herold, Richard A. Beardmore, Scott K. Parrish
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Publication number: 20040014601Abstract: This invention provides novel methods for improving plant quality and yield in the presence of pathogens. The method increases the levels of pathogenesis-related proteins, such as PR1, phenylalanine ammonia lyase, or plant cell wall proteins such as hydroxyproline-rich glycoproteins, in a plant by contacting the plant with a plant systemic inducer and a reactive oxygen species wherein the amount of the reactive oxygen species is sufficient to increase the amount of the pathogenesis-related protein above the level induced by the plant systemic inducer in the absence of the reactive oxygen species. A preferred reactive oxygen species is peracetic acid; a preferred plant systemic inducer is salicylic acid.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2003Publication date: January 22, 2004Inventors: Darin J. Moon, Anne J. Anderson
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Patent number: 6559098Abstract: Solid mixtures comprising a) an active ingredient from the group of the sulfonylureas and b) a sulfate- or sulfonate-containing surfactant.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 1999Date of Patent: May 6, 2003Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Matthias Bratz, Karl-Friedrich Jäger, Rainer Berghaus
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Publication number: 20030078165Abstract: The present invention relates to methods for creating, manipulating, modifying and enhancing floral scent component to plants and cut flowers.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2002Publication date: April 24, 2003Applicant: Ball Horticultural CompanyInventors: Alan Blowers, Natalia Dudareva
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Publication number: 20030045430Abstract: The present invention relates to methods for creating, manipulating, modifying and enhancing floral scent component to plants and cut flowers.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2002Publication date: March 6, 2003Applicant: Ball Horticultural CompanyInventor: Alan Blowers
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Patent number: 6337306Abstract: Phenoxyacetic acid derivatives of the formula: wherein R1, R2, Xn and A are as defined herein, and a process for preparing the derivatives. The derivatives are used as herbicides.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 1999Date of Patent: January 8, 2002Assignee: Rhone-Poulenc AgroInventors: Norio Sasaki, Atsushi Go, Hideshi Mukaida, Yukiko Oe
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Patent number: 6310007Abstract: The compound 7,10,12-trihydroxy-8(E)-octadecenoic acid (TOD) has been produced by bioconversion of ricinoleic acid by Pseudomonas aeruginosa PR3. TOD and derivatives thereof are useful for controlling biological organisms, such as fungi and insects.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2000Date of Patent: October 30, 2001Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of AgricultureInventors: Tsung Min Kuo, Ching T. Hou
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Patent number: 6245717Abstract: The present invention is directed to methods for control of auxin production, expression, and/or auxin movement in higher plants. In these methods 4-phenylbutyric acid is applied to a plant, seed, or surrounding soil.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2000Date of Patent: June 12, 2001Inventors: Frank Dean, Tim Loy, T. Regina Vamvakias
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Patent number: 6204220Abstract: Pyruvate acid analogues are provided which have utility as herbicidal agents.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 1999Date of Patent: March 20, 2001Assignee: Rutgers, The State University of New JerseyInventors: Frank Jordan, Angela Marie Brown
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Patent number: 5972839Abstract: The invention relates to novel .alpha.-fluoroacrylic acid derivatives, to active compound/antidote combinations which comprise .alpha.-fluoroacrylic acid derivatives and are outstandingly suitable for use in crops of useful plants, to their use and to methods for protecting crop plants.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 1997Date of Patent: October 26, 1999Assignee: Hoechst Schering AgrEvo GmbHInventors: Frank Ziemer, Lothar Willms, Klaus Bauer, Hermann Bieringer, Christopher Rosinger, Jacques Demassey
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Patent number: 5707927Abstract: A cultivating method for bean sprouts and green bean sprouts uses a compound represented by formula (1) or a compound represented formula (1) with a benzy adenine as a disinfectant, and the beans are soaked in water in which the disinfectant is dissolved, or the soaked beans are sprayed with the water; ##STR1## wherein, R represents hydrogen, sodium, potassium, methyl or ethyl. The cultivating method prevents rotting without growth inhibition.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 1996Date of Patent: January 13, 1998Assignee: Korea Institute of Science and TechnologyInventors: Kyong Pae Park, Changsok Oh, Inwoo Yi
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Patent number: 5681738Abstract: Provided is a method for the use of 10-oxo-trans-8-decenoic acid (ODA) as a fungal growth hormone to stimulate mycelial growth of cultivated mushrooms. A species of cultivated mushroom is selected and grown in a solid or liquid growth medium which has been supplemented with ODA to a concentration of 10.sup.-7 M to about 10.sup.-4 M. After culturing the mushroom the mycelium of cultivated mushroom is harvested. In addition to a method of using ODA, a method for the hormonal stimulation of fruiting in cultivated mushrooms is also disclosed. The ODA in this method is added to the casing layer of the compost which is mixed with mushroom spawn. Further, the ODA is added to the casing layer in aqueous solution after casing the compost.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 1992Date of Patent: October 28, 1997Assignee: The Penn State Research FoundationInventors: Robert B. Beelman, Gregory R. Ziegler, Jeng-Leun Mau
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Patent number: 5510321Abstract: A plant growth regulator composition comprising a cyclohexane derivative of the formula: ##STR1## wherein R is a hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group, an alkylthioalkyl group, a phenyl group or a substituted phenyl group, and R.sup.1 is a lower alkyl group, a cycloalkyl group, a benzyl group, a substituted benzyl group, a phenethyl group, a phenoxymethyl group, a 2-thienylmethyl group, an alkoxymethyl group or an alkylthiomethyl group, or a salt thereof, and a nitrogen-containing water-soluble inorganic substance or urea.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 1995Date of Patent: April 23, 1996Assignee: Kumiai Chemical Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshinori Hirabayashi, Toshihiro Ikeuchi, Susumu Kato, Takeshige Miyazawa, Kanji Nakamuras
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Patent number: 5436225Abstract: A plant growth regulator composition comprising a cyclohexane derivative of the formula: ##STR1## wherein R is a hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group, an alkylthioalkyl group, a phenyl group or a substituted phenyl group, and R.sup.1 is a lower alkyl group, a cycloalkyl group, a benzyl group, a substituted benzyl group, a phenethyl group, a phenoxymethyl group, a 2-thienylmethyl group, an alkoxymethyl group or an alkylthiomethyl group, or a salt thereof, and a nitrogen-containing water-soluble inorganic substance or urea.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 1993Date of Patent: July 25, 1995Assignee: Kumiai Chemical Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshinori Hirabayashi, Toshihiro Ikeuchi, Susumu Kato, Takeshige Miyazawa, Kanji Nakamura
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Patent number: 5266553Abstract: A method of manufacturing a solid, water-soluble herbicidal composition comprising a water-soluble salt of a herbicidal compound is disclosed. The herbicidal compound is a water-insoluble compound that includes a carboxylic acid functionality, such as a phenoxy-substituted carboxylic acid compound or a substituted benzoic acid compound, and is sufficiently pure to form a dry, solid herbicidal salt composition after interaction with a suitable neutralizing base, such as ammonia, an alkylamine, a dialkylamine, a trialkylamine, a hydroxyalkylamine, a dihydroxyalkylamine, an alkaline salt of an alkali metal or a combination thereof. The dry herbicidal salt composition includes at least about 90% by weight of the water-soluble herbicidal salt, and dissolves rapidly and essentially completely in water to form an aqueous herbicidal solution including up to about 75% by weight of the water-soluble herbicidal salt.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 1991Date of Patent: November 30, 1993Assignee: Riverdale Chemical CompanyInventors: James K. Champion, Conrad T. Harwell
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Patent number: 5252542Abstract: Controlled release compositions are made by including chemical impregnants (such as animal repellants, pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, plant growth stimulants, perfumes, fertilizers, and drugs) in biodegradable, microporous structures. Each microporous structure collapses upon drying but swells upon rewetting to allow the impregnant entrapped in it to diffuse from the structure. Never-dried wood pulp is a particularly desirable microporous structure because it has large pores initially, a large surface area initially, and demonstrated swelling capability. Methods for making the novel controlled release compositions and methods of using the compositions are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 1991Date of Patent: October 12, 1993Assignee: University of WashingtonInventor: George G. Allan