BAYER CROPSCIENCE LP

Seed treatment devices and methods of treating seeds are provided. One example seed treatment device includes a mixing chamber in which seeds and a treatment formulation are mixed when received therein, a body having an inner surface defining at least part of the mixing chamber, a rotor having an inner surface defining at least a lower portion of the mixing chamber and configured to rotate to thereby cause the seeds in a lower portion of the mixing chamber to flow upwards along the inner surface of the rotor and the inner surface of the body, and one or more baffles. Each baffle includes a first concave surface configured to redirect the seeds and the treatment formulation when the rotor rotates in a first direction and a second concave surface configured to redirect the seeds and the treatment formulation when the rotor rotates in a second direction opposite the first direction.

The present invention relates to a fusion protein having a targeting sequence, exosporium protein, or exosporium protein fragment that targets the fusion protein to the exosporium of a recombinant Bacillus cereus family member and an enzyme having serine protease activity, wherein the enzyme having serine protease activity is from Bacillus firmus or is a variant of such enzyme. The present invention also provides a recombinant Bacillus cereus family member that expresses such fusion protein and exosporium fragments derived from such recombinant Bacillus cereus family member. Methods of using such recombinant Bacillus cereus family members or exosporium fragments derived therefrom for nematode control are also provided.

The present invention relates to active compound combinations comprising Fluopyram, at least one fungicide (B) selected from the group of inhibitors of the respiratory chain at complex I or II and at least one further fungicide (C) selected from the group of specified inhibitors of the respiratory chain at complex III, to compositions comprising such compound combination, and to the use thereof as biologically active agents, especially for control of harmful microorganisms in crop protection and in the protection of industrial materials.

The present invention relates to the technical field of delivery systems for agrochemical active ingredients or pharmaceutical active ingredients. The present invention primarily relates to certain compositions in solid form comprising as constituent (a) at least one agrochemical or pharmaceutical active ingredients, as constituent (b) urea, and as constituent (c) at least one non-ionic surfactant. The present invention also relates to products obtainable or obtained by the processes defined in the context of the present invention. The present invention further relates to formulations comprising these compositions or products and application mixtures obtainable or obtained by dilution of these compositions or products with water or aqueous surfactant solutions. The present invention further relates to processes for preparing these compositions, products, formulations and application mixtures as well as to uses thereof and methods of using these compositions, products, formulations and application mixtures.

The present invention provides a composition comprising a biologically pure culture of a Paenibacillus sp. strain or a cell-free preparation thereof comprising a fusaricidin and a tridecaptin; wherein the fusaricidin is produced with a fusaricidin synthetase gene of fusA encoded by a DNA sequence exhibiting at least 90.5% sequence identity to SEQ ID NO: 3; and the tridecaptin is produced with a nonribosomal peptide synthetase (NRPS) gene of triE encoded by a DNA sequence exhibiting at least 90.0% sequence identity to SEQ ID NO: 7. Also provided are methods of treating an agricultural plant to control a disease and methods of increasing the vigor and/or crop yield of an agricultural plant with the disclosed compositions.

Method for improving quality in lawn The invention relates to the use of one or more compounds of the formula (I) or salts thereof, wherein the groups R 1 to R 8 are defined as set forth in claim 1 , optionally in the presence of additional agrochemical active ingredients, for improving quality of turf or lawn.

Methods, compositions, and apparatus for controlling undesired vegetation, such as invasive annual grasses, by treating seeds or seedheads.

The present invention relates to a composition comprising a biologically pure culture of plant growth promoting mutants of Bacillus firmus strain I-1582. The present invention also provides a method of treating a seed to promote plant growth, wherein the method comprises applying such mutants to the plant, to a part of the plant and/or to a locus of the plant.

The present invention provides a composition comprising a biologically pure culture of a Paenibacillus sp. strain comprising a mutant DegU lacking a functional receiver domain or a functional DNA binding domain and/or a mutant DegS lacking a functional single binding domain or a functional ATPase domain with decreased viscosity in a liquid culture. Also provided is a method of identifying a Paenibacillus sp. mutant derivative strain with decreased viscosity in a liquid culture compared to a Paenibacillus sp. parental strain with a visual screen for mutant isolates with a non-mucoid morphology.

The present invention primarily relates to the (selective) use of phenmedipham in the crop plants corn, cotton and soybean, and to certain herbicidally active combinations or compositions comprising (A) phenmedipham and (B) one or more aroylcyclohexanedione herbicides. The invention further relates to the use of these combinations for controlling weeds, and to corresponding methods.