This disclosure relates to surgical stapling apparatus for enhancing one or more properties of body tissue that is or is to be repaired or joined. The apparatus includes a staple anvil, a staple cartridge, a driving member for driving the surgical staples from individual staple slots in the staple cartridge and against the staple anvil, and a wound closure material applicator assembly. The applicator assembly includes at least one conduit extending along at least a length of the driving member, anvil and/or cartridge and at least one reservoir in fluid communication with the at least one conduit, the reservoir containing a wound closure material therein. The staples can be coated with a wound closure material.

Surgical stapling apparatus having a wound closure material applicator assembly

The invention provides cropping systems for managing weeds in crop environments. The cropping systems comprise, in one embodiment, transgenic plants that display tolerance to an auxin-like herbicide such as dicamba. Method for minimizing the development of herbicide resistant weeds are also provided.

Cropping systems for managing weeds

The invention provides for identification and use of certain chloroplast transit peptides for efficient processing and localization of dicamba monooxygenase (DMO) enzyme in transgenic plants. Methods for producing dicamba tolerant plants, methods for controlling weed growth, and methods for producing food, feed, and other products are also provided, as well as seed that confers tolerance to dicamba when it is applied pre- or post-emergence.

Chloroplast transit peptides for efficient targeting of DMO and uses thereof

The invention provides methods for weed control with dicamba and related herbicides. It was found that pre-emergent applications of dicamba at or near planting could be made without significant crop damage or yield loss. The techniques can be combined with the herbicide glyphosate to improve the degree of weed control and permit control of herbicide tolerant weeds.

Methods for weed control using plants having dicamba-degrading enzymatic activity

Novel compounds, their salts and compositions related thereto having activity against mammalian factor Xa are disclosed. The compounds are useful in vitro or in vivo for preventing or treating coagulation disorders.

Inhibitors of factor xa

) Verbindungen der Formel I ) Compounds of the formula I worin R Halogen, Hydroxy, Cyano, Nitro, (subst.) Alkyl, (subst.) Alkoxy, (Halogen)alkylthio, Carboxy, Alkoxycarbonyl; wherein R is halogen, hydroxy, cyano, nitro, (subst.) alkyl, (subst.) alkoxy, (halo) alkylthio, carboxy, alkoxycarbonyl; (Halogen)Alkylsulf(inyl)(onyl) oder -(onyloxy); (Halo) Alkylsulf (ynyl) (onyl) or - (onyloxy); (Halogen)phenyl, (Halogen)phenoxy; (Halo) phenyl, (halo) phenoxy; X in 3 oder 5-Position einen (Thio)carbonsaure - oder davon abgeleiteten gegebenenfalls heterocyclischen Rest: Y = Halogen, m = die Zahl 0 oder 1 und n eine Zahl von 0 bis 5 bedeutet, besitzen wertvolle pflanzenwuchsregulierende Eigenschaften und eignen sich daruberhinaus als Safener zum Schutz von Kulturpflanzen vor phytotoxischen Nebenwirkungen von Herbiziden. X in 3 or 5-position of a (thio) carboxylic acid - or which is optionally derived heterocyclic radical: Y = halogen, m = the number 0 or 1, and n is a number from 0 to 5, possess valuable plant growth-regulating properties and are furthermore to be safeners for protecting crop plants against phytotoxic side effects of herbicides.

Phenylpyrazole carbonic acid derivatives, their preparation and use as plant growth regulators and antidotes

Compounds of formula (I) and their salts in which: R1 is carboxyl, formyl or another acyl radical or a derivative of the 3 last-mentioned groups; R2 is hydrogen, halogen, C?1?-C18 alkyl, C3-C8 cycloalkyl, C2-C8 alkenyl, C2-C8 alkenyloxy, C2-C8 alkinyloxy, C1-C18 alkylthio, C2-C8 alkenylthio, in which each of the last-mentioned 9 radicals may be unsubstituted or substituted, or (C1-C8 alkoxy) carbonyl; and R?3 and R4? are mutually independently an aliphatic, araliphatic or heteroaraliphatic radical with 1 to 30 C atoms which may be unsubstituted or substituted with one or more functional groups, or an aromatic or heteroaromatic radical which is unsubstituted or substituted; are suitable as safeners for pesticides, preferably herbicides in cultivated plants. The compounds may be made from alkenes (II) and nitrile oxides (III) by the process of claim 6.

Substituted isoxazolines, process for producing them, agents containing them and their use as safeners

Disclosed are compounds of the formula (I), in which Z, X and n are as defined in claim 1. Such compounds can be used as antidotes against the phytotoxicity of many herbicides used on crops, without diminishing the effect of the herbicide against weeds.

Isoxazolines, method of preparation thereof, and their use as plant-protection agents

Disclosed are compounds of formula (I) in which X, n, R?1, R2 and R3? are as defined in claim 1. Such compounds are suitable for use as antidotes against the phytotoxic side-effects of herbicides used on crops, without diminishing the effect of the herbicides against weeds.

Pyrazolines for the protection of crops against herbicides

Compounds of the formula I and salts thereof as they are defined in Claim 1 are suitable as safeners for protecting crop plants against phytotoxic side-effects of herbicides.

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Phenylpyrazole carbonic acid derivatives, their preparation and use as plant growth regulators and antidotes

Substituted isoxazolines, process for producing them, agents containing them and their use as safeners

Isoxazolines, method of preparation thereof, and their use as plant-protection agents

Pyrazolines for the protection of crops against herbicides

Substituted (hetero-)aryle compounds, process for their preparation, those containing compositions and their use as safeners