# US 10,863,742 B2 · Herbicide combinations > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 10,863,742 B2 - Document ID: US10863742B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 16/471,202 - Filed: 2017-12-18 - Published: 2019-10-24 - Granted: 2020-12-15 - Earliest claimed: 2016-12-21 - Assignees: Bayer Aktiengesellschaft; Bayer CropScience AG - Applicants: Bayer CropScience Aktiengesellschaft; Bayer Aktiengesellschaft - Inventors: Herve Tossens; Thomas Wilde; Fritz Wagener; Steven Russel King - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10863742B2 ## CPC - A01N 43/40: six-membered rings - A01N 41/06: Sulfonic acid amides - A01N 43/56: 1,2-Diazoles; Hydrogenated 1,2-diazoles - A01N 43/707: 1,2,3- or 1,2,4-triazines; Hydrogenated 1,2,3- or 1,2,4-triazines - A01N 43/80: five-membered rings with one nitrogen atom and either one oxygen atom or one sulfur atom in positions 1,2 - A01N: PRESERVATION OF BODIES OF HUMANS OR ANIMALS OR PLANTS OR PARTS THEREOF (preservation of food or foodstuff A23); BIOCIDES, e.g. AS DISINFECTANTS, AS PESTICIDES OR AS HERBICIDES (preparations for medical, dental or toiletry purposes which kill or prevent the growth or proliferation of unwanted organisms A61K); PEST REPELLANTS OR ATTRACTANTS; PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS ## Abstract The present invention primarily relates to herbicide combinations comprising (i) diflufenican (ii) pyroxasulfone and (iii) metribuzin to compositions comprising said herbicide combinations. The present invention further relates to a method of producing said herbicide combinations and compositions comprising said herbicide combinations. The present invention also relates to the use of said herbicide combinations and compositions comprising said herbicide combinations in the field of agriculture for controlling harmful plants. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A combination of herbicides comprising (i) diflufenican, (ii) pyroxasulfone and (iii) metribuzin, wherein the combination of (i), (ii), and (iii) is synergistic in comparison to (i), (ii), or (iii) alone. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The combination according to claim 1 wherein the combination comprises at least one safener. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The combination according to claim 1 wherein the combination comprises mefenpyr-diethyl or cyprosulfamide. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The combination according to claim 1 wherein the combination comprises at least one additional herbicidal active ingredient selected from aclonifen, bromoxynil, bromoxynil-butyrate, -potassium, -heptanoate, and -octanoate, benzofenap, butachlor, 2,4-D, 2,4-D-butotyl, -butyl, -dimethylammonium, -diolamin, -ethyl, -2-ethylhexyl, -isobutyl, -isooctyl, -isopropyl-ammonium, -potassium, -triisopropanolammonium, and trolamine, diflufenican, dimethenamid, ethoxysulfuron, fenoxaprop, fenoxaprop-P, fenoxaprop-ethyl, fenoxaprop-P-ethyl, fenquinotrione, fentrazamide, florasulam, flufenacet, fluroxypyr, fluroxypyr-meptyl, foramsulfuron, iodosulfuron, iodosulfuron-methyl-sodium, isoproturon, isoxaflutole, mefenacet, mesosulfuron, mesosulfuron-methyl, metolachlor, S-metolachlor, metribuzin, metosulam, nicosulfuron, oxadiargyl, oxadiazon, pethoxamid, prosulfocarb, pyrasulfotole, pyroxsulam, tefuryltrione, tembotrione, thiencarbazone, thiencarbazone-methyl, triafamone, pendimethalin, propoxycarbazone, halauxifen -methyl, and 2-methyl-4-chlorophenoxyacetic acid (MCPA). ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The combination according to claim 1 wherein the ratio by weight of the total amount of component (i) to the total amount of component (ii) is in the range of from 1000:1 to 1:1000 and the ratio by weight of the total amount of component (i) to the total amount of component (iii) is 1000:1 to 1:1000. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) An herbicidal composition, which comprises in addition to the combination according to claim 1 one or more further component(s) selected from the group consisting of formulation auxiliaries, additives customary in crop protection, and further agrochemically active compounds. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) A method for controlling one or more weed plants in one or more crops of useful plants, comprising applying a herbicidal combination of claim 1 or composition, which comprises in addition to the combination according to claim 1 one or more further component(s) selected from the group consisting of formulation auxiliaries, additives customary in crop protection, and further agrochemically active compounds to the weed plants, crop plants or crop plant seeds or to an area on which weed or crop plants are growing. ### Claim 8 (depends on 7) The method according to claim 7, wherein the crop plants are soybean. ### Claim 9 (depends on 7) The method according to claim 7, wherein the crop plants have been genetically modified. ### Claim 10 (depends on 7) The method according to claim 7, that is carried out pre-emergence or early post-emergence. ### Claim 11 (depends on 1) The method for producing a combination of herbicides as defined in claim 1 or a composition thereof, comprising (a) providing component (i), (b) providing component (ii), (c) providing component (iii), (d) combining component (i), component (ii) and component (iii), such that the combination of herbicides as defined in claim 1 or a composition which comprises in addition to the combination according to claim 1 one or more further component(s) selected from the group consisting of formulation auxiliaries, additives customary in crop protection, and further agrochemically active compounds is obtained. ### Claim 12 (depends on 1) A product comprising a combination of herbicides as defined in claim 1 or a composition which comprises in addition to the combination according to claim 1 one or more further component(s) selected from the group consisting of formulation auxiliaries, additives customary in crop protection, and further agrochemically active compounds in the field of agriculture. ### Claim 13 (depends on 1) The combination according to claim 1 wherein the ratio by weight of the total amount of component (i) to the total amount of component (ii) is in the range of from 100:1 to 1:100, and the ratio by weight of the total amount of component (i) to the total amount of component (iii) is in the range of from 1:100 to 100:1. ### Claim 14 (depends on 1) The combination according to claim 1 wherein the ratio by weight of the total amount of component (i) to the total amount of component (ii) is in the range of from 1:10 to 10:1, and the ratio by weight of the total amount of component (i) to the total amount of component (iii) is in the range of from 1:10 to 10:1.