Herbicides of the auxin type for treating transgenic crop plants

US5670454A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• BASF SE

Inventors

• Klaus Grossmann · Schifferstadt, DE
• Helmut Walter · Obrigheim, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 14, 1995
• Grant date: Sep 23, 1997
• Expiry date: Dec 14, 2015

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C12N15/8274
• WIPO field: Basic materials chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

Use of herbicides of the auxin type for controlling broad-leaved weeds and grass weeds in transgenic crop plants which contain an ACC synthase antisense gene, ACC oxidase gene, ACC deaminase gene or combinations thereof is described.