Methods and compositions are provided related to improved plants that are tolerant to more than one herbicide. Particularly, the invention provides plants that are tolerant of glyphosate and are tolerant to at least one ALS inhibitor, and methods of use thereof. The glyphosate/ALS inhibitor-tolerant plants comprise a polynucleotide that encodes a polypeptide that confers tolerance to glyphosate and a polynucleotide that encodes an ALS inhibitor-tolerant polypeptide. In specific embodiments, a plant of the invention expresses a GAT polypeptide and an HRA polypeptide. Methods to control weeds, improve plant yield, and increase transformation efficiencies are provided.

Compositions providing tolerance to multiple herbicides and methods of use thereof

The invention relates to novel spiroketal-substituted cyclic ketoenols of formula (I), where A, B, Q1, Q2, D, G, W, X, Y, and Z have the given meanings, method and intermediates for production thereof and use thereof as pesticide and/or microbicide and/or herbicide. The invention further relates to selective herbicidal agents, containing the spiroketal-substituted cyclic ketoenols and a compound improving the compatibility with cultivated plants.

Spiroketal-substituted cyclic ketoenols

The invention relates to new compounds of the formula (I) in which W, X, Y, Z and CKE have the meanings given above, to a plurality of processes and intermediates for their preparation and to their use as pesticides and/or herbicides, and also to selective herbicidal compositions comprising, firstly, the compounds of the formula (I) and, secondly, at least one crop plant compatibility enhancer compound. The invention relates further to boosting the activity of crop protection compositions comprising compounds of the formula (I) by adding ammonium salts or phosphonium salts and, if appropriate, penetrants.

Biphenyl-substituted spirocyclic ketoenols

The invention relates to acylsulfamoyl benzoic acid amides of general formula (I), wherein R?1, R2, R3, R4 and R5? represent various organic radicals and X represents CH or N, and to plant protection agents containing said acylsulfamoyl benzoic acid amides.

Acylsulfamoyl benzoic acid amides, plant protection agents containing said acylsulfamoyl benzoic acid amides, and method for producing the same

Disclosed are compounds of formula (I) or the salts thereof, wherein R1 represents COOH or a derivative thereof, preferably a radical of formula -CN, -C(=X)-Y-R, or -C(X'R')(X'R')-Y-R in which R represents H, a (substituted) hydrocarbon radical, heterocyclic radical, or acyl, Y represents a direct bond or O, S, NRc, or NRc-NRdRe, and n represents the integer 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6 while R', R', X, X', X', Ra, Rb, Rc, Rd, Re, R2, R3, (R4)m are defined as indicated in claim 1. Said compounds are suitable as safeners for cultivated plants or useful plants in order to counteract phytotoxic effects of agrochemicals, preferably as safeners against the effect of pesticides, such as herbicides, on said plants. Compounds of formula (I) or the salts thereof, wherein R1 represents COOH, R2 and R3 each represent hydrogen, (R4)m represents a hydroxy radical (m = 1) in any position or two radicals R4 (m = 2) in any position, one radical representing a hydroxy group and the other radical representing hydroxy or methoxy in the latter case, and n represents the number 1, are used as safeners for cultivated or useful plants so as to counteract phytotoxic effects of agrochemicals other than glyphosates.

Safener based on aromatic-aliphatic carboxylic acid derivatives

Protectors against phytotoxic side-effects of pesticides in culture plants are compounds of formula (I) and their salts, in which R1 is hydrogen, a hydrocarbon, a hydrocarbon thio radical or a heterocyclyl radical, in which each of the four last-mentioned radicals may be unsubstituted or substituted by one or more identical or different radicals from the group halogen, cyano, nitro, amino, hydroxy, carboxy, formyl, carbonamide, sulphonamide and radicals of the formula -Z?a-Ra, R2? is hydrogen or (C?1?-C4) alkyl, or R?1 and R2? together with the group of the formula -CO-N- are the radical of a 3 to 8-member saturated or unsaturated ring, and R3 to R5, n and m have the meanings given in claim 1. The compounds may be produced by the process claimed in claim 8.

Novel n-acyl sulphonamides, novel mixtures of herbicides and antidotes and their use

The invention relates to a herbicide safener of the formula I shown in Claim 1, in which R and R are H or (C1-C4)-alkyl, X is O or S or NR , where R is H, (C1-C6)-alkyl, (C1-C6)-alkoxy or optionally substituted phenyl, A is (C1-C6)-alkylene, (C4-C8)-alkenylene, (C4-C8)-alkynylene, (C3-C8)-cycloalkylene or (C3-C8)-cycloalkenylene, R is (C3-C6)-alkenyloxy, (C3-C6)-alkynyloxy, (substituted) phenyl-(C1-C4)-alkoxy, R R R Si-, R R R Si-O-, R R R Si-(C1-C4)-alkoxy, (C3-C6)-alkenyloxycarbonyl, (C3-C6)-alkynyloxycarbonyl, (substituted) phenyl-(C1-C4)-alkoxycarbonyl, R R C=N-O-CO-, R R C=N-O-, R R N-O-, R R C=N-, (C2-C6)-alkenylcarbonyl, (C2-C6)-alkynylcarbonyl, 1-(hydroxyimino)-(C1-C6)-alkyl, 1-[(C1-C4)-alkylimino]-(C1-C6)-alkyl, 1-[(C1-C4)-alkoxyimino]-(C1-C6)-alkyl, a radical of the formula R O-CH(OR )- or R O-CH(OR )-(CH2)n-O-, in which n is 0, 1 or 2, or an alkoxy radical of the formula R O-CHR -CH(OR )-(C1-C4)-alkoxy, (substituted) (C1-C6)-alkylcarbonyloxy, (C2-C6)-alkenylcarbonyloxy, (C2-C6)-alkynylcarbonyloxy, (C1-C6)-alkylcarbonylamino, (C2-C6)-alkenylcarbonylamino, (C2-C6)-alkynylcarbonylamino, (substituted) phenylcarbonyloxy, (substituted) phenylcarbonylamino, (substituted) phenyl-(C1-C4)-alkylcarbonylamino, aminocarbonyl, (C1-C6)-alkylaminocarbonyl, (C1-C6)-dialkylaminocarbonyl, (C3-C6-alkenylaminocarbonyl, (C3-C6)-alkynylaminocarbonyl, (C1-C6)-alkoxycarbonylamino, (C1-C6)-alkylaminocarbonylamino or (C1-C6)-alkylthiocarbonyl, (C3-C6)-alkenylthio, (C3-C6)-alkynylthio, and R , R , R are H, (C1-C4)-alkyl or (substituted) phenyl, or R and R together with the N or C atom linking them is a (substituted) ring having 3 to 7 ring atoms, R and R are (C1-C4)-alkyl, or R and R together are a straight-chain or branched (C1-C4)-alkylene bridge, and R is H or (C1-C4)-alkyl.

New 5-chloroquinolin-8-oxyalkanecarbonic acid derivatives, process for their preparation and their use as antidotes for herbicides

The invention relates to novel α-fluoroacrylic acid derivatives of formula (I), wherein X, n, R?1, R2 and R3? have the meaning defined in Claim 1. The invention further relates to combinations of active substances and antidotes, which contain α-fluoroacrylic acid derivatives and which are extremely well-suited for use in useful plant cultures as well as to the use of said substances and to a method for protecting cultivated plants.

Novel 2-fluoroacrylic acid derivatives, novel mixtures of herbicides and antidotes and the use thereof

Disclosed are herbicidal agents which contain at least one herbicidal active compound of formula (I) and at least one compound used for the protection of cultivated plants. In formula (I) V stands for one optionally substituted rest selected from the group of isoxazole-4-yl, pyrazole-4-yl, cyclohexane-1, 3-dione-2-yl and 3-oxopropionitrile -2-yl and R9 stands for nitro, amino, halogen or a radical containing carbon. The group of safeners contains e.g. 2,4-D, cyometrinile, dicamba, dymron, fenclorim, flurazole, fluxofenim, lactidichlorine, MCPA, mecoprop, MG-191, oxabetrinile, methyl- diphenylmethoxyacetate, 1-[4-(N-2- methoxybenzoylsulfamoyl) phenyl]-3- methyl-urea, 1,8-naphthal -acid-anhydride, 1-[4-(N-2- methoxybenzoylsulfamoyl) phenyl]-3,3- dimethyl-urea, 1-[4-(N-4, 5-dimethylbenzoylsulfamoyl) phenyl]-3- methyl-urea, 1-[4-(N- naphthoylsulfamoyl) phenyl]-3,3- dimethyl-urea, (4-chlorphenoxy) acidic-acid, 4-( 2,4-dichlorphenoxy) butyric-acid, 4-(4-chlorine -o-tolyloxy) butyric-acid, 4-(4-chlorphenoxy) butyric-acid, their acids and esters respectively, N-acylsulfonamide, N-acylsulfamoylbenzoic- acid-amides, optionally in form of a salt and optionally substituted1- phenylpyrazoline-, 1-phenylpyrazole-, 1-phenyltriazole-, 5-phenylisoxazoline- and 5-phenylmethylisoxazoline -3-carbonic-acid-ester and 2-(8-chinolinyloxy) -acidic-acid-derivatives.

Frank Ziemer

Papers

Novel n-acyl sulphonamides, novel mixtures of herbicides and antidotes and their use

New 5-chloroquinolin-8-oxyalkanecarbonic acid derivatives, process for their preparation and their use as antidotes for herbicides

Acylsulfamoyl benzoic acid amides, plant protection agents containing said acylsulfamoyl benzoic acid amides, and method for producing the same

Novel 2-fluoroacrylic acid derivatives, novel mixtures of herbicides and antidotes and the use thereof

Combinations of herbicides and safeners