Basf Se Corporation

Maciej Pasternak

Jens Lerchl

Stefan Tresch

Thomas Mietzner

Helmut Kraus

Johannes Hutzler

Jill Marie Paulik

Liliana Parra Rapado

Matthias Witschel

Thomas Seitz

Trevor William Newton

Klaus Kreuz

Markus Kordes

Dario Massa

Gilbert Besong

Frederick Calo

Brigitte Weston

Richard Roger Evans

Doreen Schachtschabel

Eva Stauffer

Martin Laforest

The present invention refers to a method for controlling undesired vegetation at a plant cultivation site, the method comprising the steps of providing, at said site, a plant that comprises at least one nucleic acid comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding a wild-type hydroxyphenyl pyruvate dioxygenase or a mutated hydroxyphenyl pyruvate dioxygenase (mut-HPPD) which is resistant or tolerant to a HPPD-inhibiting herbicide and/or a nucleotide sequence encoding a wild-type homogentisate solanesyl transferase or a mutated homogentisate solanesyl transferase (mut-HST) which is resistant or tolerant to a HPPD-inhibiting herbicide, applying to said site an effective amount of said herbicide. The invention further refers to plants comprising mut-HPPD, and methods of obtaining such plants.

Plants having increased tolerance to herbicides

The present invention refers to method for producing a transgenic plant with increased herbicide tolerance or resistance as compared to a corresponding non-transformed wild type plant, comprising transforming a plant cell or a plant cell nucleus or a plant tissue with a nucleic acid molecule encoding a mutated HPPD polypeptide, as well as to the nucleic acid, and plants with increased HPPD-inhibiting herbicide tolerance or resistance comprising the nucleic acid of the invention.

Herbicide-resistant hydroxyphenylpyruvate dioxygenases

The present invention refers to a method for controlling undesired vegetation at a plant cultivation site, the method comprising the steps of: providing, at said site, a plant that comprises at least one nucleic acid comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding a wild-type hydroxyphenyl pyruvate dioxygenase or a mutated hydroxyphenyl pyruvate dioxygenase (mut-HPPD) which is resistant or tolerant to a N-heterocyclyl-arylcarboxamide and/or a nucleotide sequence encoding a wild-type homogentisate solanesyl transferase or a mutated homogentisate solanesyl transferase (mut-HST) which is resistant or tolerant to a N-heterocyclyl-arylcarboxamide, and applying to said site an effective amount of said herbicide. The invention further refers to a method of identifying a nucleotide sequence encoding a mut-HPPD which is resistant or tolerant to a N-heterocyclyl-arylcarboxamide, as well as transgenic plants having increased resistance or tolerance to a N-heterocyclyl-arylcarboxamide as compared to a wild-type variety of the plant cell.

The present invention refers to method for producing a transgenic plant with increased herbicide tolerance or resistance as compared to a corresponding non-transformed wild type plant, comprising transforming a plant cell or a plant cell nucleus or a plant tissue with a nucleic acid molecule encoding a HPPD polypeptide, as well as to the nucleic acid, and plants with increased HPPD-inhibiting herbicide tolerance or resistance comprising the nucleic acid of the invention.

The present invention refers to method for producing a transgenic plant with increased herbicide tolerance or resistance as compared to a corresponding non-transformed wild type plant, comprising transforming a plant cell or a plant cell nucleus or a plant tissue with a nucleic acid molecule encoding ancytochrome P450 monooxygenase, as well as to the nucleic acid, and plants with increased herbicide tolerance or resistance comprising the nucleic acid of the invention. Furthermore, the present invention refers to methods of controlling weeds at a locus which contains a plant with increased herbicide tolerance or resistance comprising the nucleic acid of the invention.

Herbicide-metabolizing cytochrome P450 monooxygenases

The invention relates to N-(1,2,4-triazol-3-yl)arylcarboxamides of formula I and their use as herbicides. In said formula I, X represents N or CR, whereas R, R, R, R, R, Rand Rrepresent groups such as hydrogen, halogen or organic groups such as alkyl or phenyl. 

Substituted N-(1,2,4-triazol-3-yl)Arylcarboxamide compounds and their use as herbicides

The present invention relates to a triazole compound of formula I, an N-oxide or an agriculturally suitable salt thereof, wherein the variables are defined as in the specification. The invention further refers to a composition comprising such compound and to the use thereof for controlling unwanted vegetation. 

Substituted N-(tetrazol-5-yl)- and N-(triazol-5-yl)arylcarboxamide compounds and their use as herbicides

N-(tetrazol-5-yl)- and N-(triazol-5-yl)pyridin-3-yl-carboxamides of formula I and their use as herbicides, The invention relates to N-(tetrazol-5-yl)- and N-(triazol-5-yl)pyridin-3-yl-carboxamides of formula I and their use as herbicides. In said formula I, B represents N or CH, whereas R, R, R, Rand Rrepresent groups such as hydrogen, halogen or organic groups such as alkyl or phenyl.

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Ludwigshafen, Germany

Maciej Pasternak