Abstract:
The present invention relates to novel sulfonamide derivatives, to processes and intermediates for preparing them, to plant growth regulator compositions comprising them and to methods of using them for controlling the growth of plants, improving plant tolerance to abiotic stress (including environmental and chemical stresses), inhibiting seed germination and/or safening a plant against phytotoxic effects of chemicals.
Abstract:
The present invention provides agonist compounds that active ABA receptors, and agricultural formulations comprising the agonist compounds. The agricultural formulations are useful for inducing ABA responses in plant vegetative tissues, reducing abiotic stress in plants, and inhibiting germination of plant seeds. The compounds are also useful for inducing expression of ABA-responsive genes in cells that express endogenous or heterologous ABA receptors.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to novel non-steroidal brassinosteroid mimetic derivatives of formula (I) as defined herein, to processes and intermediates for preparing them, to plant growth regulator compositions comprising them and to methods of using them for controlling the growth of plants and/or promoting the germination of seeds.
Abstract:
Provided here are methods of using a mutated patatin-like phospholipase IIα (“pPLAIIα,” renamed here MATRILINEAL) to induce haploid induction in plants, cloning a pPLAIIα to induce haploid induction in plants, and genetically engineering a plant to contain a mutated pPLAIIα. Also provided are methods of applying topical and spray chemicals, lipids, and RNAi molecules to plants during pollination in order to induce haploid production. Further provided are methods of chemically treating plants during pollination to induce haploids while also reducing embryo abortion and increasing seed set.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to sulfonamide derivatives of formula (I) where the substituents R1-R6 and R8, L, A and n are as defined in the application, to plant growth regulator compositions comprising them and to methods of using them for controlling the growth of plants, improving plant tolerance to abiotic stress (including environmental and chemical stresses), inhibiting seed germination and/or safening a plant against phytotoxic effects of chemicals.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a process for the enantioselective preparation of the compound of formula (Ib), which process comprises a) reducing the (E)- or (Z)-form of a compound of formula (II), with an enantioselective reagent to a compound of formula (IIIa), and b) acylating the compound of formula (IIIa) with the compound of formula (IV), or c) coupling the compound of formula (IV) with the compound of formula (II), to give a compound of formula (V) and d) reducing compound of formula (V) in the presence of hydrogen, a catalyst and a chiral ligand, to the compound of formula (Ib).