Bayer Cropscience S.a.

Rhone-poulenc Agro

Aventis Cropscience UK Limited

Ashley Slater

Ken Pallett

Alan Gamblin

The present invention provides a method of reducing phytotoxicity to crops (especially maize) caused by a herbicidal benzoylisoxazole and/or dione derivative of formula (I) or an agriculturally acceptable salt or metal complex thereof; which method comprises applying to the locus of the crop an antidotally effective amount of an antidote compound, optionally with a partner herbicide.

Herbicidal compositions

The invention relates to a method for controlling the growth of weeds at a locus which comprises applying to said locus: (a) 2-(2'-nitro-4&#x2032;-methylsulfonylbenzoyl)-1,3-cyclohexanedione, or an agriculturally acceptable salt or metal complex thereof; and (b) a triazine herbicide with the exclusion of atrazine; and their use as herbicides.

The invention relates to a composition comprising (a) 2-(2'-nitro-4&#x2032;-methylsulfonylbenzoyl)-1,3-cyclohexanedione, or an agriculturally acceptable salt or metal complex thereof; and (b) N-isopropyl-(5-trifluoromethyl-1,3,4-thiadiazol-2-yl)-4-(4&#x2032;-fluoro-oxycetanilide); and their use as herbicides.

A method for controlling the growth of weeds at a locus which comprises applying to the locus an effective amount of: (a) a urea herbicide of general formula (1); and (b) 2-(2&prime;-nitro-4&prime;-methylsulfonylbenzoyl)-1,3-cyclohexanedione or an agriculturally acceptable salt or metal complex thereof.

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