10069results about "Herbicides and algicides" patented technology

Compositions and methods related to transgenic high oleic acid / ALS inhibitor-tolerant soybean plants are provided. Specifically, the present invention provides soybean plants having a DP-305423-1 event which imparts a high oleic acid phenotype and tolerance to at least one ALS-inhibiting herbicide. The soybean plant harboring the DP-305423-1 event comprises genomic / transgene junctions having at least the polynucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO:8, 9, 14, 15, 20, 21, 83 or 84. The characterization of the genomic insertion site of the DP-305423-1 event provides for an enhanced breeding efficiency and enables the use of molecular markers to track the transgene insert in the breeding populations and progeny thereof. Various methods and compositions for the identification, detection, and use of the soybean DP-305423-1 events are provided.

Compositions and methods for conferring herbicide resistance to and improving nitrogen utilization of bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues and seeds are provided. Compositions comprising a coding sequence for a polypeptide that confers resistance or tolerance to herbicidal glutamine synthetase inhibitors are provided. The coding sequences can be used in DNA constructs or expression cassettes for transformation and expression in plants. Compositions also comprise transformed bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues, and seeds. In particular, isolated polynucleotides corresponding to herbicidal glutamine synthetase inhibitor-resistant polynucleotides are provided. Additionally, polypeptides corresponding to the polynucleotides are encompassed. In particular, the present invention provides for isolated polynucleotides comprising a variant of SEQ ID NO:1, wherein the variant polynucleotide encodes a polypeptide that is resistant to inhibition by herbicidal glutamine synthetase inhibitor.

An herbicidal composition containing (a) a pyridine or pyrimidine carboxylic acid component and (b) a second cereal or rice herbicide component provides synergistic control of selected weeds.

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.

The present invention relates to genetic control of infestation by insect pest species, particularly prevention and / or control of pest infestation of plants, using interfering ribonucleic acid (RNA) molecules. Compositions and combinations containing the interfering RNA molecules of the invention for use in topical applications, for example in the form of insecticides.

The invention provides a pesticide emulsifiable concentrate preparation which comprises the following components by weight percent: 1-70 percent of pesticide active ingredients, 0-8 percent of stabilizer, 1-25 percent of cosolvent, 5-20 percent of emulsifier and the balance of plant source solvent, wherein the plant source solvent is one or more of alpha-pinene, D-limonene and Jatropha curcas oilmethyl. Compared with the prior art, the pesticide emulsifiable concentrate preparation does not contain any arene organic solvents or other non-environment-protection dissolving assistant, is friendly and safe for the environment, has high security for human and crops, favorable safety in the process of production, storage, transportation and use as well as better integrative preventing effect than that of a pesticide emulsifiable concentrate preparation prepared by applying arene solvents.

The invention provides a transgenic soybean event MON 87708 plant and plants, plant cells, seeds, plant parts, and commodity products derived from event MON 87708. The invention also provides polynucleotides specific for event MON 87708 and plants, plant cells, seeds, plant parts, and commodity products comprising polynucleotides specific for event MON 87708. The invention also provides methods related to event MON 87708.

The present invention provides methods and compositions for improving plant health. In particular, application of dicamba or another substrate of DMO, or metabolites thereof including DCSA, to a plant confers tolerance to, or defense against, abiotic or biotic stresses such as oxidative stress including herbicide application, and plant disease, and enhances crop yield. Such application may be in combination with the application of another herbicide such as glyphosate.

The invention provides an oil suspension preparation using resin-based vegetable oil as a carrier and a preparation method thereof, and relates to a pesticide preparation. The oil suspension preparation using the resin-based vegetable oil as the carrier comprises the following raw material components in percentage by mass: 1 to 50 percent of pesticide active ingredient, 1 to 10 percent of emulsifying agent, 2 to 8 percent of wetting dispersant, 0 to 5 percent of suspension stabilizer, 0 to 0.2 percent of organic silicon defoaming agent and the balance of resin-based vegetable oil. After the pesticide active ingredient, the emulsifying agent, the wetting dispersant, the suspension stabilizer, the organic silicon defoaming agent and the resin-based vegetable oil are mixed uniformly, the mixture is put into a high-speed shearing ball milling device for ball milling so as to obtain the oil suspension preparation using the resin-based vegetable oil as the carrier.

The present invention relates to nucleic acid sequences encoding a hydroxyphenylpyruvate dioxygenase (EC 1.13.11.27, abbreviated herein as HPPD) obtained from protists belonging to the family Blepharismidae, as well as the proteins encoded thereby, and to a chimeric gene which comprises such nucleic acid sequence, and to the use of such nucleic acid sequences, proteins or chimeric genes for obtaining plants which are tolerant to HPPD inhibitor herbicides.

Low volatility dicamba herbicide formulations are described. In some embodiments, concentrate formulations comprising dicamba monoethanolamine salt, dicamba potassium salt, or mixed dicamba salts are provided. In other embodiments, a dicamba salt is combined with a polybasic polymer.

Microencapsulated compositions containing haloacetanilide herbicides, i.e., acetochlor, are produced by microencapsulation process. The microencapsulated composition performs comparably to nonencapsulated compositions of the same herbicide applied at the same application rates.

There is provided is an adjuvant / dispersant for pesticide formulations (among other formulated uses) comprising at least one dialkyl alkanolamine such as dimethyl ethanolamine, at least one derivative thereof, or a combination thereof. Pesticide compositions comprising a pesticide, such as glyphosate, and the adjuvant / dispersant of the present technology and methods for enhancing the effectiveness of the pesticide, such as glyphosate, in an aqueous composition through the addition of the adjuvant / dispersant of the present technology are also disclosed. Solid pesticidal formulations comprising a pesticidal active ingredient and the adjuvant / dispersant of the present technology are also provided.

The invention relates to a herbicide composition, containing sulfonylurea or salt thereof, pyridine and cyhalofop-butyl as active ingredients with the weight ratio of 0.1 to 5: 0.1 to 10: 0.1 to 10. Compared with herbicides with single dose, the weed control effect of the herbicide composition of the invention is obviously improved, thereby reducing the using dosage, reducing the influence degreefor the environment while reducing the pesticide cost, simultaneously enlarging weed control spectrum, and having good control efficiency for Gramineae and broadleaf weeds in rice paddy fields.

The invention relates to a 4-benzoyl pyrazole compound with herbicidal activity. The structural formula of the 4-benzoyl pyrazole compound with the herbicidal activity is as shown in specifications, wherein R1 in the structural formula is selected from hydrogen, methyl or ethyl, R2 in the structural formula is selected from methylsulfonyl, methoxyl, methylthio, fluorine, chlorine or cyan, R3 in the structural formula is selected from hydrogen, methyl, methyl fluoride, difluoromethyl or trifluoromethyl, R in the structural formula is selected from a five-membered heteroaromatic ring, a six-membered heteroaromatic ring, C1-C6 alkoxyl, aromatic hetero-oxy, six-membered aryloxy or six-membered aromatic amino, and hydrogen in the C1-C6 alkoxyl can be replaced by fluorine or chlorine; m and n are selected from 0 or 1 and cannot be 1 at the same time. A series of relatively efficient weed killers and plant growth regulators with relative good selectivity and safety are synthesized by introducing a fluorine-containing functional group to a pyrazole 3-site and chemically modifying a pyrazole 5-site.

The invention relates to a herbicide composition, containing sulfonylurea or salt thereof, pyridine and penoxsulam as active ingredients with the weight ratio of 0.1 to 5: 0.1 to 10: 0.1 to 10. Compared with herbicides with single dose, the weed control effect of the herbicide composition of the invention is obviously improved, thereby reducing the using dosage, reducing the influence degree for the environment while reducing the pesticide cost, simultaneously enlarging weed control spectrum, and having good control efficiency for Gramineae and broadleaf weeds in rice paddy fields.

The invention discloses 2-pyridine-oxyl(sulfide) benzoyloxy enoates compound with general formula(I, II); wherein X is H or S; R1 is H, halogen, or 4,6- dimethoxy pyrimidine-2- radicel or one of the following groups; methyls on N-O bonds and double bonds are in maleinoid form or anti form; R2,R3,R4,R6,R7 are selected from H or alkyl from C1-C6; R5 is alkyl from C1-C6, alcoxyl-alkyl from C2-C6, alkenyl from C3-C6 or alkynyl from C3-C6; radicals of R6 and R7 are in maleinoid form or anti form; R8 is alkyl from C1-C6, alkenyl from C3-C6 or alkynyl from C3-C6. The compound (I, II)is of activity in weeding and is safe to crops like soybean, cotton, earthnut, cole, corn, etc.

Disclosed are compounds of Formula 1, N-oxides, and salts thereof,whereinJ isand R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8a, R8b, R8c, G1, G2, G3, G4, G5, G6, Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4, W1, W2, Y1, Y2, Y3, m and n are as defined in the disclosure.Also disclosed are compositions containing the compounds of Formula 1 and methods for controlling undesired vegetation comprising contacting the undesired vegetation or its environment with an effective amount of a compound or a composition of the invention.

The invention discloses 2-pyridine-oxyl(sulfide)benzoyloxy acetamide compound with general formula(I); wherein X is H or S; R1 is H, halogen, or 4,6-dimethoxy pyrimidine-2- radicel; R2 is H or alkyl from C1-C6; R3 is alkyl from C1-C6, phenyl, substituted phenyl, alkyl from C1-C3, or pyrimidyl substituted with alkoxy from C1-C3; R4 is H or alkyl from C1-C6. When both R3 and R4 are alkyls, nitrogen atoms of R3 and R4, which can be connected at the same time, develop into a five-membered ring or a hexatomic ring whose 1-2 carbon atoms can be substituted by oxygen atom and nitrogen atom. The compound (I)is of activity in weeding and is safe to crops like soybean, cotton, earthnut, cole, corn, etc.

The invention provides a modified variant of dicamba monooxygenase (DMO). The invention relates to the unexpected finding that cells expressing this DMO exhibit high levels of tolerance to the herbicide dicamba. Compositions comprising DMO-encoding nucleic acids and methods of use are provided.

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.

The invention provides a pesticide oil suspension agent and a preparation method thereof; the pesticide oil suspension agent contains a pesticide active component, emulsifier, defoamer and a dispersion medium; and the dispersion medium is methyl oleate or the mixture of oil methyl ester and vegetable oil. The method for preparing the pesticide oil suspension agent comprises the following steps that: the dispersion medium and the emulsifier are mixed and emulsified; other components are added in to be mixed into pulp; and the pulp is ground by a grinder to prepare the oil suspension agent. Thepesticide oil suspension agent of the invention has small average grain size and high dispersion stability, has good extendibility and permeability on plant leaves, and improves the medicine effect of the product; and the preparation method of the pesticide oil suspension agent has simple process and low cost, facilitates industrial production, and has wide production application prospect.

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.

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 or sensitivity to HPPD-inhibitor herbicides, such as mesotrione and isoxazole herbicides, to soybean plants possessing these QTLs, which map to a novel chromosomal region, and to genetic markers that are indicative of phenotypes associated with tolerance, improved tolerance, susceptibility, or increased susceptibility. Methods and compositions for use of these markers in genotyping of soybean and selection are also disclosed, as are methods and compositions for use of these markers in selection and use of herbicides for weed control. Also disclosed are isolated polynucleotides and polypeptides relating to such tolerance or sensitivity and methods of introgressing such tolerance into a plant by breeding or transgenically or by a combination thereof. Plant cells, plants, and seeds produced are also provided.

Aqueous pesticidial concentrate emulsions or microemulsions are described which are storage stable after exposure to temperatures ranging from 60° C. to −20° C.

The present invention concerns stable herbicidal solid compositions containing built-in adjuvant which exhibit improved herbicidal efficacy when used to control weeds in flooded rice paddies or fields.