Disclosed are seed treatment compositions that include: (A) an aqueous polyurethane dispersion; and (B) an insecticide, a fungicide, a nematicide, and/or other pesticides. Also disclosed are seeds treated with such a treatment compositions and methods for treating a seed using such treatment composition.

Disclosed are seed treatment compositions that include: (A) an aqueous polyurethane dispersion; and (B) an insecticide, a fungicide, a nematicide, and/or other pesticides. Also disclosed are seeds treated with such a treatment compositions and methods for treating a seed using such treatment composition.

The present invention provides novel sulphonamide inhibitors of cystathionin gamma synthase (CGS), their use as selective and non-selective herbicides, agricultural and non-agricultural herbicides, herbicides in integrated pest management, herbicides for gardening, clearing waste ground, clearing industrial or constructions sites, clearing railways and railway embankments, pesticide, fungicide, agricultural plant stimulant or antimicrobial agent. Also provided is a method for the control of undesired vegetation or clearing areas from the undesired vegetation comprising applying to the locus of said undesired vegetation, to the undesired plants or to a habitat thereof, a herbicidally effective amount of the compound of the present invention.

The present invention provides novel sulphonamide inhibitors of cystathionin gamma synthase (CGS), their use as selective and non-selective herbicides, agricultural and non-agricultural herbicides, herbicides in integrated pest management, herbicides for gardening, clearing waste ground, clearing industrial or constructions sites, clearing railways and railway embankments, pesticide, fungicide, agricultural plant stimulant or antimicrobial agent. Also provided is a method for the control of undesired vegetation or clearing areas from the undesired vegetation comprising applying to the locus of said undesired vegetation, to the undesired plants or to a habitat thereof, a herbicidally effective amount of the compound of the present invention.

Compounds of formula (I), wherein the substituents are as defined in claim 1, and the agrochemically acceptable salts, stereoisomers, enantiomers, tautomers and N-oxides of those compounds, can be used as insecticides.

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Compounds of formula (I), wherein the substituents are as defined in claim 1, and the agrochemically acceptable salts, stereoisomers, enantiomers, tautomers and N-oxides of those compounds, can be used as insecticides.

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The present invention relates to agricultural methods and the use of an insecticidal active carboxamide derivative in seed treatment and soil application methods. The insecticidal carboxamide derivative is highly suitable alone or in combination with other active agricultural ingredients for controlling animal pests such as insects and/or spider mites and/or nematodes by treating the soil/growth substrate by drenching or drip application or dipping or soil injection.

The present invention relates to agricultural methods and the use of an insecticidal active carboxamide derivative in seed treatment and soil application methods. The insecticidal carboxamide derivative is highly suitable alone or in combination with other active agricultural ingredients for controlling animal pests such as insects and/or spider mites and/or nematodes by treating the soil/growth substrate by drenching or drip application or dipping or soil injection.

The strigolactone receptor inhibitor for plants contains at least one kind of triazole urea compounds represented by the following formula (I) as an active ingredient. It can be applicable to an agricultural composition; a method for using the agricultural composition as, for example, a branching enhancer for plants; a germination inhibitor for Striga seeds, the germination inhibitor containing the triazole urea compound; and a novel triazole urea compound that is useful as a strigolactone receptor inhibitor for plants. In the formula, A represents a group represented by (A-1) or (A-2). R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 represent a hydrogen atom and so forth. R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, a cycloalkyl group having 3 to 20 carbon atoms, or an aryl group having 6 to 20 carbon atoms and so forth. R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 may form a ring together.

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The strigolactone receptor inhibitor for plants contains at least one kind of triazole urea compounds represented by the following formula (I) as an active ingredient. It can be applicable to an agricultural composition; a method for using the agricultural composition as, for example, a branching enhancer for plants; a germination inhibitor for Striga seeds, the germination inhibitor containing the triazole urea compound; and a novel triazole urea compound that is useful as a strigolactone receptor inhibitor for plants. In the formula, A represents a group represented by (A-1) or (A-2). R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 represent a hydrogen atom and so forth. R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, a cycloalkyl group having 3 to 20 carbon atoms, or an aryl group having 6 to 20 carbon atoms and so forth. R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 may form a ring together.

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