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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7087552 | Modification of floral scent in flowering plants The present invention relates to methods for creating, manipulating, modifying and enhancing floral scent component to plants and cut flowers. ... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7030060 | Rest-breaking composition and use thereof The invention relates to a composition useful for the breaking of rest in deciduous fruit species such as apple species and grape species comprising an organic nitrogen-containing compound having a molecular weight of 60 to 300 with the exception of urea and dinitro... | 04/18/2006 |
| 6770598 | Protein transport enhancer for transgenic plants Expression and stability of desirable proteins in transgenic plants are promoted and maintained by treatment with a protein transport enhancer. Preferably, the transgenic plant is a commodity crop that has been modified to express pesticidally effective protein prot... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6720289 | Formulation and method for increasing the essential oil content in aromatic crops The present invention provides a formulation for increasing the synthesis and accumulation of essential oil in aromatic plants and other plants. The formulation disclosed herein comprises a resistance inducer, such as an isomer of amino butyric acid or another amino... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6667278 | Non-steroidal mimetics of brassinolide Non steroidal mimetics or analogues of brassinosteroids such as brassinolide include two bicyclic subunits each having a vicinal diol group and a polar unit and linked by a linking moiety such that the vicinal diol groups and polar unit are closely superi... | 12/23/2003 |
| 6506707 | Herbicidal compositions containing plant essential oils and mixtures or blends thereof Herbicidal compositions containing plant essential oils and mixtures or blends thereof. In addition, the present invention is directed to a method for controlling weeds and grasses by applying a herbicidally-effective amount of the above herbicidal compos... | 01/14/2003 |
| 6300282 | Technique for reducing nitrogen leaching in soils and improving potato crop yield by application of surfactants to crop root zone A preferred technique for increasing potato crop yields and/or minimizing nitrate leaching of potato crop acreage involves the application of surfactant at planting to the soil adjacent a seed potato. In an alternative method of the present invention, sur... | 10/09/2001 |
| 6140274 | Dihalopropene compounds, their use as insecticides/acaricides and intermediates for their production Dihalopropene compounds of the general formula: ##STR1## wherein R1 is substituted alkyl; R2, R3 and R4 are each independently halogen, alkyl, haloalkyl, alkoxy, haloalkoxy, nitro or cyano; A is O, S(O) | 10/31/2000 |
| 5693591 | Activity promoting additives for rest-breaking agents Activity promoting additives (alkoxylated amines and alkoxylated quaternary ammonium compounds) for rest-breaking agents are disclosed. Further, rest-breaking compositions comprising these additives and a rest-breaking agent are also disclosed. Finally, a... | 12/02/1997 |
| 5525576 | Seed hull extract assimilation agents for agrochemical compositions The efficacy of plant growth regulating agents and systemic insecticides for plants are enhanced by applying the agent in combination with a product from the oxidation of a hull-free, pentose-containing extract from seed hulls.... | 06/11/1996 |
| 5344811 | Method for dispensing compositions in an aqueous system A method for dispensing an emulsion or a water soluble composition in an aqueous medium comprising the steps of introducing said water soluble composition and at least one non-ionic or anionic surfactant into water so that the resulting concentration of s... | 09/06/1994 |
| 5129951 | Aromatic aldehydes and alcohols as potato tuber sprout inhibitors A method for inhibiting sprouting of tubers including the step of exposing tubers to the aromatic aldehydes or alcohols: benzaldehyde, salicylaldehyde, cinnamaldehyde, hydrocinnamaldehyde, cuminaldehyde, thymol, or mixtures thereof.... | 07/14/1992 |
| 5116414 | Long-term control of root growth A method and system for long-term control of root growth without killing the plants bearing those roots involves incorporating a 2,6-dinitroaniline in a polymer and disposing the polymer in an area in which root control is desired. This results in control... | 05/26/1992 |
| 4966621 | Finely dispersed liquid plant protection agents Aqueous emulsions of a plant protective agent such as a pesticide dispersed in the presence of a phosphate ester of a block copolymer of (1) ethylene and propylene oxides or (2) of an ethoxylated/propoxylated fatty alochol.... | 10/30/1990 |
| 4681806 | Particles containing releasable fill material and method of making same Particles containing a releasable fill material and method of preparing same. A particle comprises a continuous polyurea surface layer, and an interior portion comprising a polyurea matrix, said matrix having a fill material contained therein, said matrix... | 07/21/1987 |
| 4306900 | Herbicidal nitrodiphenyl ethers Compounds of the formula ##STR1## wherein X is a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a trihalomethyl group, an alkyl group, or a cyano group; Y is a hydrogen atom or a halogen atom; R is CHOHR' or COR'; and R' is hydrogen or (C1 -C4)alkyl... | 12/22/1981 |
| 4093664 | Bis halogenated phenoxyalkanoates and the method of making same Compounds useful as plant growth regulators having the formula: ##STR1## WHEREIN X and X' are each halogens, R and R' are each alkyl groups containing from 1 to 4 carbon atoms and n and n' each have a value from 1 to 5. Method of preparing said compo... | 06/06/1978 |
| 4057419 | 2,4-Bis-(trifluoromethyl)-6-nitrophenol compounds and herbicidal compositions Novel 2,4-bis-(trifluoromethyl)-6-nitrophenol compounds of the formula ##STR1## in which X is hydrogen; M; HNR.spsp.+1 R2 R3 ; --COR4 ; --COOR5 ; N,N-dimethylaminocarbonyl; --SO2 R6 | 11/08/1977 |
| 4050922 | Substituted benzene-methanol compounds Disclosed are novel substituted benzenemethanol compounds having utility as herbicides.... | 09/27/1977 |
| 3972913 | Substituted benzenemethanol compounds Disclosed are novel substituted benzenemethanol compounds having utility as herbicides.... | 08/03/1976 |
| 3971651 | Plant growth modifier and a process for preparation thereof A plant growth modifier comprising as an active ingredient at least one compound selected from the group consisting of compounds (I), (II) and (III) expressed by the following formulae: ##SPC1## Wherein X and Y stand for a member selected from Cl--, HO--,... | 07/27/1976 |
| 3939272 | Solubilizing process for oil insoluble pesticides This invention concerns a process for converting normally oil-insoluble, nitrogen-containing pesticidal compounds to oil-soluble complexes by treatment with alkylated phenols, and to the oil-soluble complexes resulting therein.... | 02/17/1976 |
