US 20140336231A1 (19) United States (12) Patent Application Publication (10) Pub. No.: US 2014/0336231 A1 GARY (43) Pub. Date: Nov. 13, 2014

(54) ACTIVE COMPOUNDS COMBINATIONS Publication Classification COMPRISING PROTHOCONAZOLE AND FLUXAPYROXAD (51) Int. Cl. AOIN 43/653 (2006.01) (71) Applicant: BAYER CROPSCIENCE AG, AOIN 43/56 (2006.01) MONHEIM (DE) (52) U.S. Cl. CPC ...... A0IN 43/653 (2013.01); A0IN 43/56 (72) Inventor: STEPHANIE GARY, CHAMPAGNE (2013.01) (FR) USPC ...... 514/384 (57) ABSTRACT (21) Appl. No.: 14/337,269 The present invention relates to active compound combina tions, in particular within a fungicide composition, which (22) Filed: Jul. 22, 2014 comprises (A) prothioconazole and (B) fluxapyroxad and optionally (C) a further fungicidally active compound. More over, the invention relates to a method for curatively or pre Related U.S. Application Data ventively controlling the phytopathogenic fungicidally of (62) Division of application No. 13/812,858, filed on Apr. plants or crops (e.g. cereals such as , , lye, , 5, 2013, filed as application No. PCT/EP2011/063268 and ; soya beans; rice; corn/maize, oil seed rape on Aug. 2, 2011. including canola, beans, peas, peanuts; Sugar beet, fodder beet, beetroot, potatoes; cotton), and to the use of a combi (30) Foreign Application Priority Data nation according to the invention for the treatment of seed, to a method for protecting a seed and not at least to the treated Aug. 5, 2010 (EP) ...... 10172028.2 seed. US 2014/0336231 A1 Nov. 13, 2014

ACTIVE COMPOUNDS COMBINATIONS 0009. In addition to the fungicidal synergistic activity, the COMPRISING PROTHOCONAZOLE AND active compound combinations according to the invention FLUXAPYROXAD have further Surprising properties which, in a wider sense, may also be called synergistic, such as, for example: broad CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED ening of the activity spectrum to other phytopathogens, for APPLICATIONS example to resistant strains of plant diseases; lower applica 0001. This application is a divisional application of U.S. tion rates of the active compounds; Sufficient control of pests patent application Ser. No. 13/812,858 (filed Apr. 5, 2013), with the aid of the active compound combinations according which is a 371 National Stage of PCT/EP201 1/63268 (filed to the invention even at application rates where the individual Aug. 2, 2011), which claims priority to EP 10172028 (filed compounds show no or virtually no activity; advantageous Aug. 5, 2010) the contents of all are incorporated herein by behaviour during formulation or during use, for example reference in their entirety. during grinding, sieving, emulsifying, dissolving or dispens 0002 The present invention relates to active compound ing; improved storage stability and light stability; advanta combinations, in particular within a fungicide composition, geous residue formation; improved toxicological or ecotoxi which comprises (A) prothioconazole and (B) fluxapyroxad cological behaviour, improved properties of the plant, for and optionally (C) a further fungicidally active compound. example better growth, increased harvest yields, a better Moreover, the invention relates to a method for curatively or developed root system, a larger area, greener , preventively controlling the phytopathogenic fungi of plants stronger shoots, less seed required, lower phytotoxicity, or crops (e.g. cereals such as wheat, barley, lye, oats, millet mobilization of the defence system of the plant, good com and triticale; soya beans; rice; corn/maize, oil seed rape patibility with plants. Thus, the use of the active compound including canola, beans, peas, peanuts; Sugar beet, fodder combinations or compositions according to the invention beet, beetroot potatoes; cotton), and to the use of a combina contributes considerably to keeping young cereal stands tion according to the invention for the treatment of seed, to a healthy, which increases, for example, the winter survival of method for protecting a seed and not at least to the treated the cereal seed treated, and also safeguards quality and yield. seed. Moreover, the active compound combinations according to 0003 Prothioconazole (CAS Registry No. 178928-70-6), the invention may contribute to enhanced systemic action. having the chemical name 2-2-(1-chlorocyclopropyl)-3-(2- Even if the individual compounds of the combination have no chlorophenyl)-2-hydroxypropyl1-1,2-dihydro-3H-1,2,4- Sufficient systemic properties, the active compound combi triazole-3-thione (Compound A) and its manufacturing pro nations according to the invention may still have this property. cess is described in WO 96/16048. In a similar manner, the active compound combinations 0004 Fluxapyroxad (CAS Registry No. 907204-31-3), according to the invention may result in higher long term having the chemical name 3-(difluoromethyl)-1-methyl-N- efficacy of the fungicidal action. (3',4',5'-trifluorobiphenyl-2-yl)pyrazole-4-carboxamide 0010. In particular the present invention provides advan (Compound B) and its manufacturing process is described in tageous uses of the combination according to the invention WO 2006/087343. which comprises (A) prothioconazole and (B) fluxapyroxad 0005 Certain plant health compositions are also known and optionally compound (C) a further fungicidally active (WO 2009/098218). compound against specific pathogens and in specific crops. 0006 Since the environmental and economic require 0011 Compound (C) may be selected from the following ments imposed on modem-day crop protection compositions groups: are continually increasing, with regard, for example, to the 0012 (1) Inhibitors of the ergosterol biosynthesis, for spectrum of action, toxicity, selectivity, application rate, for example aldimorph, azaconazole, bitertanol, bromuconazole, mation of residues, and favourable preparation ability, and cyproconazole, diclobutrazole, difenoconazole, dinicona since, furthermore, there may be problems, for example, with Zole, diniconazole-M, dodemorph, dodemorph acetate, resistances, a constant task is to develop new compositions, in epoxiconazole, etaconazole, fenarimol, fenbuconazole, fen particular fungicidal agents, which in some areas at least help hexamid, fempropidin, fempropimorph, fluguinconazole, to fulfil the abovementioned requirements. flurprimidol, flusilazole, flutriafol, furconazole, furconazole 0007. The present invention provides active compound cis, hexaconazole, imazalil, imazalil Sulfate, imibenconazole, combinations/compositions which in Some aspects at least ipconazole, metconazole, myclobutanil, naftifine, nuarimol, achieve the stated objective. Oxpoconazole, paclobutraZol, pefurazoate, penconazole, pip 0008. It has now been found, surprisingly, that the combi eralin, prochloraz, propiconazole, pyributicarb, pyrifenox, nations according to the invention not only bring about the quinconazole, Simeconazole, spiroxamtebuconazole, tebu additive enhancement of the spectrum of action with respect conazole, terbinafine, tetraconazole, triadimefon, triadime to the phytopathogen to be controlled that was in principle to nol, tridemorph, triflumizole, triforine, triticonazole, uni be expected but achieves a synergistic effect which extends conazole, uniconazole-P Viniconazole, Voriconazole, 1-(4- the range of action of the component (A) and of the compo chlorophenyl)-2-(1H-1,2,4-triazol-1-yl)cyclo-heptanol, nent (B) in two ways. Firstly, the rates of application of the methyl 1-(2,2-dimethyl-2,3-dihydro-1H-inden-1-yl)-1H component (A) and of the component (B) are lowered whilst imidazole-5-carboxylate, N'-(5-(difluoromethyl)-2-methyl the action remains equally good. Secondly, the combination 4-3-(trimethylsilyl)propoxyphenyl-N-ethyl-N-methylim still achieves a high degree of phytopathogen control even idoformamide, N-ethyl-N-methyl-N'-(2-methyl-5- where the two individual compounds have become totally (trifluoromethyl)-4-3-(trimethylsilyl)propoxy ineffective in Such a low application rate range. This allows, phenyl)imidoformamide and O-1-(4-methoxyphenoxy)-3, on the one hand, a Substantial broadening of the spectrum of 3-dimethylbutan-2-yl)1H-imidazole-1-carbothioate. phytopathogens that can be controlled and, on the other hand, 0013 (2) Inhibitors of the respiratory chain at complex I or increased safety in use. II, for example bixafen, boscalid, carboxin, diflumetorim, US 2014/0336231 A1 Nov. 13, 2014 fenfuram, fluopyram, flutolanil, furametpyr, furmecyclox, dine, propineb, Sulphur and Sulphur preparations including isopyrazam (mixture of Syn-epimeric racemate 1RS.4SR, calcium polysulphide, thiram, tolylfluanid, Zineb, Ziram and 9RS and anti-epimeric racemate 1RS4SR.9SR), isopyrazam salts thereof. (anti-epimeric racemate 1 RS4SR.9SR), isopyrazam (anti 0017 (6) Compounds capable to induce a host defence, epimeric enantiomer isopyrazam (anti-epimeric enantiomer like for example acilbenzolar-S-methyl, isotianil, probena 1S.4R,9R), isopyrazam (syn epimeric racemate 1RS4SR, Zole, tiadinil and salts thereof. 9RS), isopyrazam (syn-epimeric enantiomer 1R,4S,9R), 0018 (7) Inhibitors of the amino acid and/or protein bio isopyrazam (Syn-epimeric enantiomer 1S.4R.9S), mepronil. synthesis, for example andoprim, blasticidin-S, cyprodinil, oxycarboxin, pentlufen, penthiopyrad, sedaxane, thifluZa kasugamycin, kasugamycin hydrochloride hydrate, mepa mide, 1-methyl-N-2-(1,1,2,2-tetrafluoroethoxy)phenyl-3- nipyrim, pyrimethanil and salts thereof. (trifluoromethyl)-1H-pyrazole-4-carboxamide, 3-(difluo (0019 (8) Inhibitors of the ATP production, for example romethyl)-1-methyl-N-2-(1,1,2,2-tetrafluoroethoxy) fentin acetate, fentin chloride, fentin hydroxide and silthio phenyl)-1H-pyrazole-4-carboxamide, 3-(difluoromethyl)-N- fam. 4-fluoro-2-(1,1,2,3,3,3-hexafluoropropoxy)phenyl)-1- 0020 (9) Inhibitors of the cell wall synthesis, for example methyl-1H-pyrazole-4-carboxamide, N-1-(2,4- benthiavalicarb, dimethomorph, flumorph, iprovalicarb, dichlorophenyl)-1-methoxypropan-2-yl-3- mandipropamid, polyoxins, polyoxorim, validamycin A and (difluoromethyl)-1-methyl-1H-pyrazole-4-carboxamide and valifenalate. salts thereof. 0021 (10) Inhibitors of the lipid and membrane synthesis, 0014 (3) Inhibitors of the respiratory chain at complex III, for example biphenyl, chloroneb, diclotan, edifenphos, etridi for example ametoctradin, amisulbrom, azoxystrobin, cyaZo azole, iodocarb, iprobenfos, isoprothiolane, propamocarb, famid, dimoxystrobin, enestroburin, famoxadone, fenami propamocarb hydrochloride, prothiocarb, pyrazophos, quin done, thioxastrobin, kresoxim-methyl, metominostrobin, toZene, tecnaZene and tolclofoS-methyl. orysastrobin, picoxystrobin, pyraclostrobin, pyrameto 0022 (11) Inhibitors of the melanine biosynthesis, for strobin, pyraoxystrobin, pyribencarb, trifloxystrobin, (2E)-2- example carpropamid, diclocymet, fenoxanil, phthalide, (2-6-(3-chloro-2-methylphenoxy)-5-fluoropyrimidin-4- pyroquilon and tricyclazole. ylloxyphenyl)-2-(methoxyimino)-N-methylethanamide, 0023 (12) Inhibitors of the nucleic acid synthesis, for (2E)-2-(methoxyimino)-N-methyl-2-(2-({(1E)-1-3-(trif. example benalaxyl, benalaxyl-M (kiralaxyl), bupirimate, luoromethyl)phenylethylidene amino)oxymethylphenyl) cloZylacon, dimethirimol, ethirimol, furalaxyl, hymexaZol. ethanamide, (2E)-2-(methoxyimino)-N-methyl-2-2-(E)- metalaxyl, metalaxyl-M (mefenoxam), ofurace, oxadixyland ({1-3-(trifluoromethyl)phenylethoxy)imino)methyl oXolinic acid. phenylethanamide, (2E)-2-[2-({(1E)-1-(3-(E)-1-fluoro 0024 (13) Inhibitors of the signal transduction, for 2-phenylethenyloxyphenyl)ethylidenelamino oxy)- example chloZolinate, fenpiclonil, fludioxonil, iprodione, methylphenyl-2-(methoxyimino)-N-methylethanamide, procymidone, quinoxyfen and VincloZolin. (2E)-2-2-((2E.3E)-4-(2,6-dichlorophenyl)but-3-en-2- 0025 (14) Compounds capable to act as an uncoupler, like ylidenelamino oxy)methylphenyl)-2-(methoxyimino)-N- for example binapacryl, dinocap, ferimZone, fluaZinam and methylethanamide, 2-chloro-N-(1,1,3-trimethyl-2,3-dihy meptylidinocap. dro-1H-inden-4-yl)pyridine-3-carboxamide, 5-methoxy-2- 0026 (15) Further compounds, like for example benthia methyl-4-(2-({(1E)-1-3-(trifluoromethyl)phenyl Zole, bethoxazin, capsimycin, carvone, chinomethionat, ethylidene amino)oxymethylphenyl)-2,4-dihydro-3H-1, chlaZafenone, cufraneb, cyflufenamid, cymoxanil, cyprosul 2,4-triazol-3-one, methyl(2E)-2-2-(cyclopropyl (4- famide, dazomet, debacarb, dichlorophen, diclomeZine, methoxyphenyl)iminomethylsulfanyl)methylphenyl-3- difenZoquat, difenZoquat methylsulphate, diphenylamine, methoxyprop-2-enoate, N-(3-ethyl-3,5,5- ecomate, fenpyraZamine, flumetover, fluoroimide, flusulfa trimethylcyclohexyl)-3-(formylamino)-2- mide, flutianil, fosetyl-aluminium, fosetyl-calcium, fosetyl hydroxybenzamide, 2-2-(2,5-dimethylphenoxy)methyl Sodium, hexachlorobenzene, irumamycin, methasulfocarb, phenyl)-2-methoxy-N-methylacetamide, (2R)-2-2-(2,5- methyl isothiocyanate, metrafenone, mildiomycin, natamy dimethylphenoxy)methylphenyl)-2-methoxy-N- cin, nickel dimethyldithiocarbamate, nitrothal-isopropyl. methylacetamide and salts thereof. octhillinone, oxamocarb, oxyfenthiin, pentachlorophenol and salts, phenothrin, phosphorous acid and its salts, propam 00.15 (4) Inhibitors of the mitosis and cell division, for ocarb-fosetylate, propanosine-Sodium, produinazid, pyr example benomyl, carbendazim, chlorfenazole, diethofen rolnitrine, tebufloquin, tecloftalam, tolnifanide, triaZOxide, carb, ethaboxam, fluopicolide, fuberidazole, pencycuron, trichlamide, Zarilamid 1-(4-4-(5R)-5-(2,6-difluorophe thiabendazole, thiophanate-methyl, thiophanate, Zoxamide, nyl)-4,5-dihydro-1,2-oxazol-3-yl-1,3-thiazol-2- 5-chloro-7-(4-methylpiperidin-1-yl)-6-(2,4,6-trifluorophe yl)piperidin-1-yl)-2-5-methyl-3-(trifluoromethyl)-1H nyl) 1.2.4 triazolo 1.5-alpyrimidine, 3-chloro-5-(6-chloro pyrazol-1-ylethanone, 1-(4-4-(5S)-5-(2,6- pyridin-3-yl)-6-methyl-4-(2,4,6-trifluorophenyl)pyridazine difluorophenyl)-4,5-dihydro-1,2-oxazol-3-yl-1,3-thiazol-2- and salts thereof. yl)piperidin-1-yl)-2-5-methyl-3-(trifluoromethyl)-1H 0016 (5) Compounds capable to have a multisite action, pyrazol-1-yl-ethanone, 1-(4-4-5-(2,6-difluorophenyl)-4, like for example bordeaux mixture, captafol, captan, chlo 5-dihydro-1,2-oxazol-3-yl-1,3-thiazol-2-yl)piperidin-1- rothalonil, copper hydroxide, copper naphthenate, copper yl)-2-5-methyl-3-(trifluoromethyl)-1H-pyrazol-1-yl) oxide, copper oxychloride, copper(II) sulfate, dichlofluanid, ethanone, 1-(4-methoxyphenoxy)-3.3-dimethylbutan-2-yl dithianon, dodine, dodine free base, ferbam, fluorofolpet, 1H-imidazole-1-carboxylate, 2,3,5,6-tetrachloro-4-(methyl folpet, guazatline, guaZatine acetate, iminoctadine, iminocta sulfonyl)pyridine, 2,3-dibutyl-6-chlorothieno 2,3-dipyrimi dine albesilate, iminoctadine triacetate, mancopper, manco din-4(3H)-one, 2-5-methyl-3-(trifluoromethyl)-1H-pyra Zeb, maneb, metiram, metiram Zinc, oxine-copper, propami Zol-1-yl)-1-(4-4-(5R)-5-phenyl-4,5-dihydro-1,2-oxazol-3-

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invention, preference is given to agrochemically advanta choides, Puccinia graminis, Puccinia hordei, Puccinia geous salts. In view of the close relationship between the recondita, Puccinia striiformis, Puccinia tritici-duri, Puc compound (A) or the compound (B) and optionally com cinia triticina, Pyrenophoragraminea, Pyrenophora semeni pound (C) in free form and in the form of their salts, herein perda, Pyrenophora teres, Pyrenophora tritici-repentis, above and herein below any reference to the free compound Pythium myriotylum, Pythium aphanidermatum, Pythium (A) or free compound (B) and optionally compound (C) or to aristosporum, Pythium arrhenomanes, Pythium graminicola, their salts should be understood as including also the corre Pythium iwayamai, Pythium Okanoganense, Pythium volu sponding salts or the free compound (A) or free compound tum, Rhizoctonia cerealis, Rhizoctonia Solani, Rhizophydium (B) and optionally free compound (C), respectively, where graminis, Sclerophthora macrospore, Sclerotinia borealis, appropriate and expedient. The equivalent also applies to Sclerotium rolfsii, Sclerotium rolfsii, Selenophoma donacis, tautomers of compound (A) or compound (B) and optionally Septoria nodorum, Septoria tritici, Sphacelia segetum, compound (C) and to their salts. Sporobolomyces spp., Stagonospora avenae f. sp. tritica, 0032. According to the invention the expression “combi Stemphylium spp., Tapesia vallundae, Thanatephorus nation' stands for the various combinations of compound (A) cucumeris, Tilletia caries, Tilletia controversa, Tilletia foe and (B) and optionally compound (C), for example in a single tida, Tilletia indica (=Neovossia indica), Tilletia laevis, “ready-mix' form, in a combined spray mixture composed Tiphula idahoensis, Tiphula incarnata, Tiphula ishikarien from separate formulations of the single active compounds, sis Imai var. Canadensis, Tiphula ishikariensis, Uredo glu Such as a "tank-mix', and in a combined use of the single marum, Urocystis agropyri, Ustilago Segetum avena, Usti active ingredients when applied in a sequential manner, i.e. lago Segetum nuda, Ustilago Segetum tritici, Ustilago tritici. one after the other with a reasonably short period, such as a 0037 Another embodiment of the present invention few hours or days. Preferably the order of applying the com relates to the use of the composition, which comprises (A) pound (A) and (B) and optionally compound (C) is not essen prothioconazole and (B) fluxapyroxad and (C) a further fun tial for working the present invention. gicidally active compound for controlling wheat diseases 0033. In conjunction with the present invention “control caused by the above mentioned organisms. ling denotes a significant reduction of the infestation of a 0038 Another embodiment of the present invention disease in comparison to the untreated crop, more preferably relates to the use of the composition, which comprises (A) the infestation is essentially diminished (50-79%), most pref prothioconazole and (B) fluxapyroxad for controlling barley erably the infestation is totally suppressed (80-100%). diseases caused by spp., Apiospora montagnei, 0034. The present invention furthermore relates to com Arthrinium arundinis, Ascochyta hordei, Asochyta graminea, positions for combating/controlling undesirable microorgan Asochyta sorghi, Asochyta tritici, Athelia rolfsii, Bipolaris isms comprising the active compound combinations accord Sorokiniana, Blumeria graminis, Cephalosporium ing to the invention. Preferably, the compositions are gramineum, Ceratobasidium cereale, Claviceps purpurea, fungicidal compositions comprising agriculturally suitable Cochliobolus sativus, Colletotrichum graminicola, Drech auxiliaries, solvents, carriers, Surfactants or extenders. slera graminea, Drechslera teres f. maculata, Drechslera 0035. Furthermore the invention relates to a method of teres, Drechslera wirreganensis, Erysiphe graminis f.sp. hor combating undesirable microorganisms, characterized in that dei, Fusarium culmorum, Fusarium graminearum, Fusarium the active compound combinations according to the invention inivale, Fusarium spp., Gaeumannomyces graminis var. are applied to the phytopathogenic fungi and/or their habitat. tritici, Gibberella zeae, Glomerella graminicola, Helm 0036. One embodiment of the present invention relates to inthosporium tritici-repentis, Microdochium nivale, the use of the composition, which comprises (A) prothiocona Monographella nivalis, Oidium monilioides, Phaeosphaeria Zole and (B) fluxapyroxad for controlling wheat diseases avenaria f. sp. triticea, Pseudocercosporella herpotri caused by Alternaria spp., in particular Alternaria triticina, choides, Pseudoseptoria domacis, Puccinia coronata, Puc Ascochyta tritici, Athelia rolfsi, Bipolaris Sorokiniana, cinia graminis, Puccinia hordei, Puccinia Striiformis, Blumeria graminis, Cephalosporium gramineum, Ceratoba Pyrenophora teres, Pyrenophora tritici-repentis, Pythium sidium cereale, Cladosporium spp., in particular Cladospo arrhenomanes, Pythium graminicola, Pythium iwayamai, rium herbarum, Clathrospora pentamera, Claviceps pur Pythium Okanoganense, Pythium paddicum, Pythium spp., purea, Cochliobolus sativus, Colletotrichum graminicola, Pythiton tardicrescens, Rhizoctonia cerealis, Rhizoctonia Coprinus psychromorbidus, Dilophospora alopecuri, Drech Solani, Rynchosporium secalis, Sclerophthora rayssiae, Scle slera campanulata, Drechslera tritici-repentis, Drechslera rotinia borealis, Sclerotium rolfsii, Selenophoma donacis, wirreganesis, Epicoccum spp., Erysiphe graminis, Fusarium Septoria donacis, Septoria nodorum, Septoria passerinni, avenaceum, Fusarium culmorum, Fusarium graminearum, Sphacelia Segetum, Stagonospora avenae f. sp. triticea, Fusarium pseudograminearum, Gaeumannomyces graminis, Stagonospora nodrum, Tapesia vallundae, Thanatephorus Gaeumannomyces graminis var. avenae, Gaeumannomyces cucumeris, Tilletia controversa, Tiphula idahoensis, Tiphula graminis var. tritici, Gibberella avenacea, Gibberella zeae, incarnate, Tiphula ishikariensis, Ustilago avenae, Ustilago Gibellina cerealis, Glomerella graminicola, Hymenula hordei, Ustilago nigra, Ustilago nuda, Ustilago tritici, Verti cerealis, Lagena radicicola, Leptosphaeria herpotrichoides, cillium dahliae. Leptosphaeria microscopica, Leptosphaeria nodorum, 0039. Another embodiment of the present invention Ligniera pilorum, Linochora graminis, Microdochium bol relates to the use of the composition, which comprises (A) leyi, Microdochium nivale, Monographella nivalis, prothioconazole and (B) fluxapyroxad and (C) a further fun Mycosphaerella graminicola, Oidium monilioides, Olipidium gicidally active compound for controlling barley diseases brassicae, Phaeosphaeria avenaria f. sp. triticea, caused by the above mentioned organisms. Phaeosphaeria nodorum, Phoma Sorghina, Phoma glom 0040 Another embodiment of the present invention erata, Phyllachoragraminis, Pseudocercosporella herpotri relates to the use of the composition, which comprises (A) choides var. acuformis, Pseudocercosporella herpotri prothioconazole and (B) fluxapyroxad for controlling or US 2014/0336231 A1 Nov. 13, 2014

triticale, in particular rye, diseases caused by Aecidium 0044 Another embodiment of the present invention clematidis, Alternaria spp., Bipolaris Sorokiniana, Cepha relates to the use of the composition, which comprises (A) losporium gramineurnet al., Ceratobasidium cereale, Cer prothioconazole and (B) fluxapyroxad for controlling Soya cosporidium graminis, Cladosporium herbarum, Claviceps bean diseases caused by Acremonium, Alternaria spp., Ark purpurea, Cochliobolus sativus, Colletotrichum gramini Oola nigra, Athelia rolfsii, Calonectria crotalariae, Cepha cola, Coprinus psychromorbidus, Dilophospora alopecuri, losporium gregatum, Cercospora kikuchii, Cercospora Drechslera tritici-repentis, Epicoccum spp., Etysiphe grami Sojina, Chulara elegans, Choanephora infundibulifera, nis, Fusarium culmorum, Fusarium graminearum, Fusarium Choanephora trispora, Colletotrichum dematiumtruncatum, inivale, Fusarium spp., Gaeumannomyces graministritici, Colletotrichum destructivum, Colletotrichum truncatum, Gibberella zeae, Glomerella graminicola, Helminthospo Corynespora cassicola, Cylindrocladium crotalariae, rium sativum, Helminthosporium tritici-repentis, Hymenula Dactuliochaeta glycines, Dactuliophora glycines, Diaporthe cerealis, Leptosphaeria nodosum, Leptosphaeria herpotri phaseolorum, Diaporthe phaseolorum var. Caulivora, choides, Microdochium nivale, Monographella nivalis, Diaporthe phaseolorum var. Sojae, Drechslera glycines, Mycosphaerella graminicola, Mycosphaerella tassiana, Fusarium Solani, Fusarium spp., Glomerella glycines, Lep Myriosclerotinia borealis, Neovossia indices, tosphaerulina trifolii, Macrophomina phaseolina, Phaeosphaeria herpotrichoides, Phaeosphaeria nodorum, Microsphaera diffusa, Mycoleptodiscus terrestris, Pseudocercosporella herpotrichoides, Pseudoseptoria dona Mycosphaerella usoenskaiae, Neocosmospora vasinfecta, cis, Puccinia graminis, Puccinia recondita, Puccinia Striifor Peronospora manshurica, Phakopsora pachyrhizi, Phialo mis, Puccinia graminissecalis, Pyrenophora tritici-repentis, phora gregata, Phomopsis phaseoli, Phomopsis sojae, Pho Pythium aphanidermatum, Pythium arrhenomanes, Pythium mopsis spp., Phyllosticta Sojicola, Phymatotrichopsis debaryanum, Pythium graminicola, Pythium ultimum, Omnivora, Phymatotrichum omnivorum, Phytophthora sojae, Rhizoctonia cerealis, Rhynchosporium secalis, Sclerotinia Pleospora tarda, Pyrenochaeta glycines, Pythium aphani borealis, Scolicotrichum graminis, Selenophoma donacis, dermatum, Pythium debaryanum, Pythium irregulare, Septoria nodorum, Septoria Secalis, Septoriatritici, Sphace Pythium myriotylum, Pythium ultimum, Rhizoctonia Solani, lia segetum, Sporobolomyces spp., Stagonospora nodorum, Sclerotinia Sclerotiorum, Sclerotium rolfsii, Septoria gly Stemphylium spp., Tilletia caries, Tilletia controversa, Tille cines, Spaceloma glycines, Stemphyllium botryosum, Tha tia foetida, Tilletia indica, Tilletia laevis, Tilletia tritici, natephorus cucumeris, Thielaviopsis basicola. Tiphula idahoensis, Tiphula incarnata, Tiphula ishikarien 0045 Another embodiment of the present invention sis, Tiphula ishikariensis var. Canadensis, Uredo glumarum, relates to the use of the composition, which comprises (A) Urocystis occulta, Ustilago tritici. prothioconazole and (B) fluxapyroxad and (C) a further fun 0041 Another embodiment of the present invention gicidally active compound for controlling Soya bean diseases relates to the use of the composition, which comprises (A) caused by the above mentioned organisms. prothioconazole and (B) fluxapyroxad and (C) a further fun 0046. Another embodiment of the present invention gicidally active compound for controlling rye or triticale, in relates to the use of the composition, which comprises (A) particular rye, diseases caused by the above mentioned organ prothioconazole and (B) fluxapyroxad for controlling rice diseases caused by Achlya conspicua, Achlya klebsiana, 1SS. Acrocylindrium Oryzae, Alternaria padwickii, Athelia rolfsii, 0042 Another embodiment of the present invention Ceratobasidium Oryzae-sativae, Cercospora janseana, Cer relates to the use of the composition, which comprises (A) cospora Oryzae, Cochiobolus lunatus, Cochliobolus miya prothioconazole and (B) fluxapyroxad for controlling oats or beanus, Cochliobolus miyabeanus, Curvularia lunata, Cur millet, in particular millet, diseases caused by Bipolaris soro vularia spp., Drechslera gigantean, Entvloma Oryzae, kiniana, Bipolaris victoriae, Ceratobasichum cereale, Clavi Fusarium spp., Gaeumannomyces graminis, Magnaporthe ceps purpurea, Cochliobolus sativus, Cochliobolus victoriae, grisea, Magnaporthe Salvinii, Microdochium Oryzae, Naka Colletotrichum graminicola, Drechslera avenacea, Drech taea sigmoidae, Neovossia horrida, Pyricularia grisea, slera avenae, Erysiphe graminis avenae, Erysiphegraminis, Pyricularia Oryzae, Pythium dissotocum, Pythium spinosum, Fusarium culmorum, Fusarium graminearum, Fusarium Pythium spp., Rhizoctonia Oryzae, Rhizoctonia Oryzae-sati inivale, Fusarium spp., Gaeumannomyces graminis var. ave vae, Rhizoctonia Solani, Rhynchosporium Ozyzae, Saroda nae, Gaeumannomyces graminis, Gibberella zeae, Glomer dium Oryzae, Sclerophthora macrospore, Sclerotium Oryzae, ella graminicola, Helminthosporium avenaceum, Helm Sclerotium rolfsii, Sphaerulina Oryzina, Thanatephorus inthosporium avenae, Microdochium nivale, Monogaphella cucumeris, Tilletia barclayana, Ustilaginoidea virens. inivalis, Oidium monilioides, Phaeosphaeria avenaria, Puc 0047 Another embodiment of the present invention cinia coronata, Puccinia graminis, Pyrenophora avenae, relates to the use of the composition, which comprises (A) Pythium debaryanum, Pythium irregulare, Pythium spp., prothioconazole and (B) fluxapyroxad and (C) a further fun Pythium ultimum, Rhizoctonia cerealis, Rhizoctonia Solani, gicidally active compound for controlling rice diseases Sclerophthora macrosporaet al., Septoria avenae, Sphacelia caused by the above mentioned organisms. segetum, Stagonospora avenae, Thanatephorus cucumeris, 0048. Another embodiment of the present invention Tiphula idahoensis, Tiphula incarnata, Tiphula ishikarien relates to the use of the composition, which comprises (A) sis, Ustilago avenae, Ustilago kolleri, Ustilago Segetum. prothioconazole and (B) fluxapyroxad for controlling corn/ 0043. Another embodiment of the present invention maize diseases caused by Acremonium strictum, Aspergillus relates to the use of the composition, which comprises (A) flavus, Botryodiplodia theobromae, Botryosphaeria festucae, prothioconazole and (B) fluxapyroxad and (C) a further fun Cephalosporium acremonium, Cochliobolus eragrostidis, gicidally active compound for controlling oats or millet, in Cochliobolus intermedius, Cochliobolus lunatus, Cochliobo particular millet, diseases caused by the above mentioned lus pallescens, Cochliobolus tuberculatus, Colletotrichum organisms. gramicola, Corticium Sasakii, Curvularia clavata, Curvu US 2014/0336231 A1 Nov. 13, 2014 laria eragrostidis, Curvularia inaequalis, Curvularia inter graminicola, Pythium spp., Rhizoctonia Solani, Rhizoctonia media, Curvularia lunata, Curvularia maculans, Curvularia zeae, Rhizoctonia zeae, Rhizopus arrhizus, Rhizopus pallescens, Curvularia Senegalensis, Curvularia tuberculata, microsporus, Rhizopus nigricans, Rhizopus stolonifer, Rho Didymella exitalis, Diplodia frumenti, Diplodia macrospora, pographus zeae, Sclerophthora macrospore, Sclerophthora Diplodia maydis, Glomerella falcatum, Glomerella gramini rayssiae var. zeae, Sclerospora graminicola, Sclerospora cola, Glomerella tucumanensis, Lasiodiplodia theobromae, macrospore, Sclerospora maydis, Sclerospora philippinen Macrophomina phaseolina, Marasmiellus sp., Physoderma sis, Sclerospora sacchari, Sclerospora sorghi, Sclerospora spontanea, Sclerotium rolfsii, Scolecosporiella sp., Scopu maydis, Rhizoctonia microsclerotia, Rhizoctonia Solani, lariopsis briumptii, Selenophoma sp., Septoria zeae, Septoria Stenocarpella macrospora, Thanatephorus cucumeris, Tha Zeicola, Septoria Zeina, Setosphaeria pedicellata, Seto natephorus cucumeris, or by downy mildews selected from sphaeria prolata, Setosphaeria rostrata, Setosphaeria tur Alternaria alternata, Alternaria tenuis, Angiopsora zeae, cica, Sphacelia sp., Sphacelotheca reiliana, Sphaerulina Ascochyta ischaeini, Ascochyta maydis, Ascochyta tritici, maydis, Spicaria sp., Sporisorium holci-sorghi, Stenocar Ascochyta Zeicola, Aspergillus glaucus, Aspergillus niger; pella macrospore, Stenocarpella maydis, Trichoderma Aspergillus spp., Athelia rolfsii, Aureobasidium zeae, Bipo laris maydis, Bipolaris Sorokiniana, Bipolaris victoriae, lignorum, , Ustilaginoidea virens, Usti Bipolaris Zeicola, Botryosphaeria festucae, Botryosphaeria lago maydis, Ustilago Zeae, Waitea circinata. zeae, Botryotinia fuckeliana, Botrytis cinerea, Cephalospo 0049. Another embodiment of the present invention rium maydis, Cephalotrichum Stemonitis, Cercospora sorghi, relates to the use of the composition, which comprises (A) Cercospora sorghi var. maydis, Cercospora zeae-maydis, prothioconazole and (B) fluxapyroxad and (C) a further fun Cladosporium cladosporioides, Cladosporium herbarum, gicidally active compound for controlling corn/maize dis Claviceps gigantea, Cochliobolus carbonum, Cochliobolus eases caused by the above mentioned organisms. heterostrophus, Cochliobolus sativus, Cochliobolus victo 0050. Another embodiment of the present invention riae, Cunninghamella sp., Curvularia pallescens, Dictocha relates to the use of the composition, which comprises (A) eta fertilis, Diplodia frumenti, Diplodia macrospora, Diplo prothioconazole and (B) fluxapyroxad for controlling oil seed dia maydis, Diplodia zeae, Doratomyces stemonitis, rape (including canola) diseases caused by Albugo candida, Drechslera prolata, Epicoccum nigrum, Exserohilum pedi Albugo cruciferarum, Alternaria alternata, Alternaria bras cellatum, Exserohilum prolatum, Exserohilum rostratum, sicae, Alternaria brassicicola, Alternaria japonica, Alterna Exserohilum turcicum, Fusarium acuminatum, Fusarium ria raphani, Alternaria spp., Aphanomyces raphani, Asco avenaceum, Fusarium culmorum, Fusarium episphaeria, chyta spp., Asterontella brassica, Athelia rolfsii, Botryotinia Fusarium equiseti, Fusarium graminearum, Fusarium mer fickeliana, Botrytis cinerea, Cercospora brassicicola, Cer ismoides, Fusarium moniliforme, Fusarium moniliforme var. cosporella brassicae, Cladosporium sp., Colletotrichum subglutinans, Fusarium oxysporum, Fusarium pallidoro gloeosporioides, Colletotrichum higginsianum, Cylin seum, Fusarium poae, Fusarium roseum, Fusarium Solani, drosporium concentricum, Elysiphe cruciferarum, Erysiphe Fusarium subglutinans, Fusarium sulphureum, Fusarium tri polygoni, Fusarium oxysporum, Fusarium oxysporum sp. cinetum, Gaeumannomyces graminis, Gibberella acuminata, conglutinans, Fusarium spp., Gliocladium roseum, Glomer Gibberella avenacea, Gibberella cyanogens, Gibberella ella cingulate, Leptosphaeria maculans, Macrophomina fiujikuroi, Gibberella intricans, Gibberella zeae, Gloeocer phaseolina, Mycosphaerella brassicicola, Mycosphaerella cospora sorghi, Gonatobotry's simplex, Graphium penicillio capsellae, Nectria ochroleuca, Peronospora parasitica, Per ides, Helminthosporium carbonum, Helminthosporium may onospora sp., Phoma lingam, Phymatotrichopsis omnivora, dis, Helminthosporium pedicellatum, Helminthosporium Phytophthora megasperma, Plasmodiophora brassicae, rostratum, Helminthosporium sativum, Helminthosporium Pseudocercosporella capselae, Pyrenopeziza brassicae, Sorokinianum, Helminthosporium turcicum, Helminthospo Pythium debaryanum, Pythium irregulare, Pythium spp., rium victoriae, Hormodendrum cladosporioides, Hyalothy Rhizoctonia Solani, Rhizopus stolonifer, Sclerotinia Sclerotio ridium maydis, Hypocrea sp., Kabatiella zeae, Khuskia rum, Sclerotium rolfsii, Thanatephorus cucumeris, Thanate Oryzae, Leptosphaeria maydis, Leptothyrium zeae, Macro phorus cucumeris, Urocystis brassicae, Verticillium long phoma zeae, Macrophomina phaseolina, Mariannaea isporum. elegans, Microdochium bolleyi, Monascus purpureus, 0051. Another embodiment of the present invention Monascus ruber. Mucor sp., Mycosphaerella tassiana, relates to the use of the composition, which comprises (A) Mycosphaerella zeae-maydis, Myrothecium gramineum, prothioconazole and (B) fluxapyroxad and (C) a further fun Nectria haematococca, Nigrospora Oryzae, Ophiosphaerella gicidally active compound for controlling oil seed rape (in herpotricha, Paraphaeosphaeria michotii, Penicillium cluding canola) diseases caused by the above mentioned chrysogenium, Penicillium expansium, Penicillium oxalicum, organisms. Penicillium spp., Periconia circinata, Peronosclerospora 0.052 Another embodiment of the present invention maydis, Peronosclerospora philippinensis, Peronoscle relates to the use of the composition, which comprises (A) rospora sacchari, Peronosclerospora sorghi, Peronoscle prothioconazole and (B) fluxapyroxad for controlling pea rospora spontanea, Phaeocytosporella zeae, Phaeocy diseases caused by Alternaria alternata, Aphanomyces eute tostroma ambiguum, Phaeosphaeia maydis, Phoma sp., iches f. sp. pisi, Ascochyta pinodella, Ascochyta pinodes, Phoma terrestris, Phomopsis sp., Phyllachora maydis, Phyl Ascochyta pisi, Botryotinia fuckeliana, Botrytis cinerea, Cer losticta maydis, Physalospora zeae, Physalospora Zeicola, cospora pisa-sativae, Chalara elegans, Cladosporium cla Physopella pallescens, Physopella zeae, Phytophthora cac dosporioides f.sp. pisicola, Cladosporium pisicola, Colletot torum, Phytophthora drechsleri, Phytophthora nicotianae richum gloeosporioides, Colletotrichum pisi, Erysiphe pisi, var. parasitica, Pithomyces maydicus, Puccinia polysora, Fusarium oxysporum, Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. pisi, Puccinia sorghi, Pyrenochaeta terresiris, Pythium aphani Fusarium Solani, Fusicladium pisicola, Glomerella Cingu dermatum, Pythium arrhenomanes, Pythium butleri, Pythium lata, Mycosphaerella pinodes, Oidium sp., Peronospora US 2014/0336231 A1 Nov. 13, 2014 viciae, Phoma pinodella, Pythium spp., Rhizoctonia Solani, Pleospora tarda, Puccinia submitems, Pythium aphaniderma Sclerotinia Sclerotiorum, Septoria pisi, Thanatephorus tum, Pythium deliense, Pythium irregulare, Pythium spp., cucumeris, Thielaviopsis basicola, Uromyces fabae. Ranularia beticola, Rhizoctonia crocorum, Rhizoctonia 0053 Another embodiment of the present invention Solani, Rhizopus arrhizus, Rhizopus stolonifer, Sclerotinia relates to the use of the composition, which comprises (A) sclerotiorum, Sclerotium rolfsii, Stemphylium botryosum, prothioconazole and (B) fluxapyroxad and (C) a further fun Thanatephorus cucumeris, Uromycesbetae, Urophlyctis lep gicidally active compound for controlling pea diseases roides, Verticillium alboatrum. caused by the above mentioned organisms. 0057 Another embodiment of the present invention 0054 Another embodiment of the present invention relates to the use of the composition, which comprises (A) relates to the use of the composition, which comprises (A) prothioconazole and (B) fluxapyroxad and (C) a further fun prothioconazole and (B) fluxapyroxad for controlling peanut gicidally active compound for controlling Sugar beet, fodder diseases caused by Alternaria alternata, Alternaria arachi beet or beetroot diseases caused by the above mentioned dis, Alternaria tenuissima, Ascochyta adzamethica, Aspergil organisms. lus flavus, Aspergillus niger, Aspergillus parasiticus, Athelia 0.058 Another embodiment of the present invention rolfsii, Bipolaris spicifera, Botryotinia fickeliana, Botrytis relates to the use of the composition, which comprises (A) cinerea, Calonectria Crotalariae, Calonectria keyotensis, prothioconazole and (B) fluxapyroxad for controlling potato Cercospora arachidicola, Cercosporidium personatum, diseases caused by Aecidium cantensis, Alternaria alternata, Chalara elegans, Choanephora spp., Cochliobolus spicifer, Alternaria Solani, Alternaria tenuis, Angiosorus Solani, Athe Colletotrichum arachidis, Colletotrichum dematium, Colle lia rolfsii, Botryotinia fuckeliana, Botrytis cinerea, Cer totrichum gloeosporioides, Colletotrichum mangenoti, Cris cospora concors, Cercospora Solani, Cercospora Solani-tu tulariella moricola, Cylindrocladium crotalariae, Cylindro berosi, Choanephora cucurbitarum, Colletotrichum cladium Scoparium, Diaporthe phaseolorum, atramentarium, Colletotrichum coccodes, Dematophora sp., Didymosphaeria arachidicola, Diplodia gossypina, Drech Erysiphe cichoraceareum, Fusarium acuminatum, Fusarium slera spicifera, Fusarium equiseti, Fusarium oxysporum, avenaceum, Fusarium Crookwellense, Fusarium culmorum, Fusarium Scirpi, Fusarium Solani, Fusarium spp., Gibberella Fusarium equiseti, Fusarium oxysporum, Fusarium sam intricans, Glomerella cingulata, Grovesinia pyramidalis, bucinum, Fusarium Solani f. sp. eumartii, Fusarium Solani Lasiodiplodia theobromae, Leptosphaerulina crassiasca, var. coeruleum, Fusarium spp., Fusarium sulphureum, Gib Macrophomina phaseolina, Mycosphaerella arachidicola, erella pullicaris, Helminthosporium Solani, Macrophomina Mycosphaerella arachidis, Mycosphaerella berkeleyi, phaseolina, Mycovellosiella Concors, Phoma andigena var. Myrothecium roridum, Nectria haematococca, Oidium andina, Phoma exigua var. exigua, Phoma exigua var. arachidis, Olpidium brassicae, Pestalotiopsis arachidis, foveata, Phoma foveata, Phoma Solanicola f. foveata, Phy Phaeoisariopsis personata, Phoma arachidicola, Phoma tophthora cryptogea, Phytophthora drechsleri, Phytophthora microspora, Phomopsis phaseoli, Phomopsis sojae, Phomop erythroseptica, Phytophthora infestans, Phytophthora sis spp., Phyllosticta arachidis-hypogaea, Phyllosticta Soji megasperma, Phytophthora nicotianae var. paracitica, Phy cola, Phymatotrichopsis omnivore, Phymatotrichum tophthora spp., Pleospora herbarum, Polyscytalum pustu Omnivorum, Pleosphaerulina Sojicola, Pleospora tarda, Puc lans, Puccinia pittieriana, Pythium aphanidermatum, cinia arachidis, Pythium aphanidermatum, Pythium debary Pythium debaryanum, Pythium deliense, Pythium spp., anum, Pythium irregulare, Pythium myriotylum, Pythium Pythium ultimum var. ultimum, Rhizoctonia Solani, Rosel spp., Pythium ultimum, Rhizoctonia bataticola, Rhizoctonia linia sp., Sclerotinia Sclerotiorum, Sclerotium bataticola, Solani, Rhizoctonia spp., Rhizopus spp., Sclerotinia minor; Sclerotium rolfsii, Septoria lycopersici var. malagutii, Spon Sclerotinia Sclerotiorum, Sclerotium cinnomomi, Sclerotium gospora subterranea f. sp. subterranea, Stemphylium her rolfsii, Sphacelona arachidis, Stemphylium botryosum, Tha barum, Synchytrium endobioticum, Thanatephorus cucum natephorus cucumeris, Thielaviopsis basicola, Verticillium eris, Ulocladium atrum, Verticillium albO-atrum, Verticillium albO-atrum, Verticillium dahliae, dahliae. 0055 Another embodiment of the present invention 0059 Another embodiment of the present invention relates to the use of the composition, which comprises (A) relates to the use of the composition, which comprises (A) prothioconazole and (B) fluxapyroxad and (C) a further fun prothioconazole and (B) fluxapyroxad and (C) a further fun gicidally active compound for controlling peanut diseases gicidally active compound for controlling potato diseases caused by the above mentioned organisms. caused by the above mentioned organisms. 0056. Another embodiment of the present invention 0060 Another embodiment of the present invention relates to the use of the composition, which comprises (A) relates to the use of the composition, which comprises (A) prothioconazole and (B) fluxapyroxad for controlling Sugar prothioconazole and (B) fluxapyroxad for controlling cotton beet, fodder beet or beetroot diseases caused by Alternaria diseases caused by Alternaria alternata, Alternaria mac brassicae, Alternaria alternata, Aphanomyces cochlioides, rospora, Ascochyta gossypii, Ascochyta gossypii, Aspergillus Aphanomyces cochlioides, Athelia rolfsii, Cercospora beti flavus, Athelia rolfsii, Bipolaris spicifera, Botryosphaeria cola, Choanephora cucurbitatum, Colletotrichum dematium rhodina, Cercospora gossypina, Chalara elegans, Chalara f. spinaciae, Cylindrocladium, Erysiphe betae, Erysiphe elegans, Cochliobolus spicifer; Colletotrichum gossypii, polygoni, Fusarium oxysporum f sp. betae, Fusarium Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. vasinfectum, Fusarium spp., Oxysporum f.sp. spinaciae, Fusarium spp., Helicobasidium Glomerella gossypii, Lasiodiplodia theobromae, Leveillula brebissonii, Macrophomina phaseolina, Peronospora fari taurica, Macrophomina phaseolina, Mycosphaerella areola, nosa f. sp. betae, Peronospora farinosa, Peronospora Mycosphaerella gossypina, Myrothecium roridum, Nem Schachtii, Phoma betae, Phymatotrichopsis omnivora, Phy atospora spp., Nigrospora Oryzae, Oidiopsis gossypii, Oidi matotrichum omnivorum, Physarum cinereum, Physodenna opsis sicula, Phakopsora gossypii, Phoma exigua, Phymatot leproides, Phytophthora drechsleri, Pleospora betae, richopsis omnivora, Phytophthora spp., Puccinia cacabata, US 2014/0336231 A1 Nov. 13, 2014

Puccinia schedonnardi, Pythium spp., Ranularia gossypii, taurine derivatives (preferably alkyl taurates), phosphoric Rhizoctonia Solani, Salmonia malachrae, Sclerotium rolfsii, esters of polyethoxylated alcohols or phenols, fatty esters of Stemphylium Solani, Thanatephorus cucumeris, Thielaviop polyols, and derivatives of the compounds containing Sul sis basicola, Verticillium dahliae. phates, Sulphonates and phosphates. The presence of a Sur 0061 Another embodiment of the present invention factant is required if one of the active compounds and/or one relates to the use of the composition, which comprises (A) of the inert carriers is insoluble in water and when the appli prothioconazole and (B) fluxapyroxad and (C) a further fun cation takes place in water. The proportion of Surfactants is gicidally active compound for controlling cotton diseases between 5 and 40 per cent by weight of the composition caused by the above mentioned organisms. according to the invention. 0062 According to the invention, carrier is to be under 0068. It is possible to use colorants such as inorganic stood as meaning a natural or synthetic, organic or inorganic pigments, for example iron oxide, titanium oxide, Prussian substance which is mixed or combined with the active com blue, and organic dyes, such as alizarin dyes, azo dyes and pounds for better applicability, in particular for application to metal phthalocyanine dyes, and trace nutrients, such as salts plants or plant parts or seeds. The carrier, which may be solid of iron, manganese, boron, copper, cobalt, molybdenum and or liquid, is generally inert and should be suitable for use in agriculture. Z10. 0063 Suitable solid or liquid carriers are: for example 0069. If appropriate, other additional components may ammonium salts and natural ground minerals. Such as also be present, for example protective colloids, binders, kaolins, clays, talc, chalk, quartz, attapulgite, montmorillo adhesives, thickeners, thixotropic Substances, penetrants, sta nite or diatomaceous earth, and ground synthetic minerals, bilizers, sequestering agents, complex formers. In general, Such as finely divided silica, alumina and natural or synthetic the active compounds can be combined with any solid or silicates, resins, waxes, Solid fertilizers, water, alcohols, espe liquid additive customarily used for formulation purposes. In cially butanol, organic solvents, mineral oils and vegetable general, the compositions according to the invention com oils, and also derivatives thereof. It is also possible to use prise between 0.05 and 99 percent by weight, 0.01 and 98 per mixtures of such carriers. Solid carriers suitable for granules cent by weight, preferable between 0.1 and 95 per cent by are: for example crushed and fractionated natural minerals, weight, particularly preferred between 0.5 and 90 percent by Such as calcite, marble, pumice, Sepiolite, dolomite, and also weight of the active compound combination according to the synthetic granules of inorganic and organic meals and also invention, very particularly preferable between 10 and 70 per granules of organic material, such as sawdust, coconut shells, cent by weight. maize cobs and tobacco stalks. 0070 The active compound combinations or composi 0064 Suitable liquefied gaseous extenders or carriers arc tions according to the invention can be used as Such or, liquids which arc gaseous at ambient temperature and under depending on their respective physical and/or chemical prop atmospheric pressure, for example aerosol propellants. Such erties, in the form of their formulations or the use forms as butane, propane, nitrogen and carbon dioxide. prepared therefrom, Such as aerosols, capsule Suspensions, 0065 Tackifiers, such as carboxymethylcellulose and cold-fogging concentrates, warm-fogging concentrates, natural and synthetic polymers in the form of powders, gran encapsulated granules, fine granules, flowable concentrates ules and lattices, such as gum arabic, polyvinyl alcohol, poly for the treatment of seed, ready-to-use solutions, dustable vinyl acetate, or else natural phospholipids, such as cephalins powders, emulsifiable concentrates, oil-in-water emulsions, and lecithins and synthetic phospholipids can be used in the water-in-oil emulsions, macrogranules, microgranules, oil formulations. Other possible additives are mineral and veg dispersible powders, oil-miscible flowable concentrates, oil etable oils and waxes, optionally modified. miscible liquids, foams, pastes, pesticide-coated seed, Sus 0066. If the extender used is water, it is also possible for pension concentrates, Suspoemulsion concentrates, soluble example, to use organic solvents as auxiliary Solvents. Suit concentrates, Suspensions, wettable powders, Soluble pow able liquid solvents are essentially: aromatic compounds, ders, dusts and granules, water-soluble granules or tablets, Such as Xylene, toluene or alkylnaphthalenes, chlorinated water-soluble powders for the treatment of seed, wettable aromatic compounds or chlorinated aliphatic hydrocarbons, powders, natural products and synthetic Substances impreg Such as chlorobenzenes, chloroethylenes or methylene chlo nated with active compound, and also microencapsulations in ride, aliphatic hydrocarbons, such as cyclohexane or paraf polymeric Substances and in coating materials for seed, and fins, for example mineral oil fractions, mineral and vegetable also ULV cold-fogging and warm-fogging formulations. oils, alcohols, such as butanol or glycol, and also ethers and 0071. The formulations mentioned can be prepared in a esters thereof, ketones, such as acetone, methyl ethyl ketone, manner known per se, for example by mixing the active methyl isobutyl ketone or cyclohexanone, strongly polar sol compounds or the active compound combinations with at vents, such as dimethylformamide and dimethyl Sulphoxide, least one additive. Suitable additives are all customary for and also water. mulation auxiliaries. Such as, for example, organic solvents, 0067. The compositions according to the invention may extenders, solvents or diluents, Solid carriers and fillers, Sur comprise additional further components, such as, for factants (such as adjuvants, emulsifiers, dispersants, protec example, Surfactants. Suitable surfactants are emulsifiers, tive colloids, wetting agents and tackifiers), dispersants and/ dispersants or wetting agents having ionic or nonionic prop or binders or fixatives, preservatives, dyes and pigments, erties, or mixtures of these surfactants. Examples of these are defoamers, inorganic and organic thickeners, water repel salts of polyacrylic acid, salts of lignoSulphonic acid, salts of lents, if appropriate siccatives and UV stabilizers, gibberel phenolsulphonic acid or naphthalenesulphonic acid, poly lins and also water and further processing auxiliaries. condensates of ethylene oxide with fatty alcohols or with fatty Depending on the formulation type to be prepared in each acids or with fatty amines, substituted phenols (preferably case, further processing steps such as, for example, wet grind alkylphenols or arylphenols), salts of SulphoSuceinic esters, ing, dry grinding or granulation may be required. US 2014/0336231 A1 Nov. 13, 2014

0072 The compositions according to the invention do not invention also relates to the use of the compositions according only comprise ready-to-use compositions which can be to the invention for treating seed for protecting the seed and applied with suitable apparatus to the plant or the seed, but the germinating plant against phytopathogenic fungi. Fur also commercial concentrates which have to be diluted with thermore, the invention relates to seed treated with a compo water prior to use. sition according to the invention for protection against phy 0073. The active compound combinations according to topathogenic fungi. the invention can be present in (commercial) formulations 007.9 The control of phytopathogenic fungi which dam and in the use forms prepared from these formulations as a age plants post-emergence is carried out primarily by treating mixture with other (known) active compounds, such as insec the soil and the above-ground parts of plants with crop pro ticides, attractants, sterilants, bactericides, acaricides, nem tection compositions. Owing to the concerns regarding a pos aticides, fungicides, growth regulators, herbitides, fertilizers, sible impact of the crop protection composition on the envi safeners and Semiochemicals. ronment and the health of humans and animals, there are 0074 The treatment according to the invention of the efforts to reduce the amount of active compounds applied. plants and plant parts with the active compounds or compo 0080. One of the advantages of the present invention is sitions is carried out directly or by action on their Surround that, because of the particular systemic properties of the com ings, habitat or storage space using customary treatment positions according to the invention, treatment of the seed methods, for example by dipping, spraying, atomizing, irri with these compositions not only protects the seed itself, but gating, evaporating, dusting, fogging, broadcasting, foaming, also the resulting plants after emergence, from phytopatho painting, spreading-on, watering (drenching), drip irrigating genic fungi. In this manner, the immediate treatment of the and, in the case of propagation material, in particular in the crop at the time of sowing or shortly thereafter can be dis case of seeds, furthermore as a powder for dry seed treatment, pensed with. a solution for seed treatment, a water-soluble powder for I0081. It is also considered to be advantageous that the slurry treatment, by incrusting, by coating with one or more mixtures according to the invention can be used in particular layers, etc. It is furthermore possible to apply the active com also for transgenic seed where the plant growing from this pounds by the ultra-low volume method, or to inject the active seed is capable of expressing a protein which acts against compound preparation or the active compound itself into the pests. By treating Such seed with the active compound com soil. binations or compositions according to the invention, even by 0075. The invention furthermore comprises a method for the expression of the, for example, insecticidal protein, cer treating seed. The invention furthermore relates to seed tain pests may be controlled. Surprisingly, a further synergis treated according to one of the methods described in the tic effect may be observed here, which additionally increases preceding paragraph. the effectiveness of the protection against attack by pests. 0076. The active compounds or compositions according to I0082. The compositions according to the invention are the invention are especially suitable for treating seed. A large Suitable for protecting seed of any plant variety employed in part of the damage to crop plants caused by harmful organ agriculture, in the greenhouse, in forests or in horticulture or isms is triggered by an infection of the seed during storage or viticulture. In particular, this takes the form of seed of cereals after sowing as well as during and after germination of the (such as wheat, barley, rye, triticale, millet, oats), maize plant. This phase is particularly critical since the roots and (corn), cotton, soya bean, rice, potatoes, Sunflowers, beans, shoots of the growing plant are particularly sensitive, and beets (e.g. Sugar beets and fodder beets), peanuts, oilseed even Small damage may result in the death of the plant. rape. The treatment of seeds of cereals (such as wheat, barley, Accordingly, there is peat interest in protecting the seed and rye, triticale, and oats), maize(corn), soya beans and rice is of the germinating plant by using appropriate compositions. particular importance. 0077. The control of phytopathogenic fungi by treating the 0083. As also described thither below, the treatment of seed of plants has been known for a long time and is the transgenic seed with the active compound combinations or Subject of continuous improvements. However, the treatment compositions according to the invention is of particular of seed entails a series of problems which cannot always be importance. This refers to the seed of plants containing at Solved in a satisfactory manner. Thus, it is desirable to least one heterologous gene which allows the expression of a develop methods for protecting the seed and the germinating polypeptide or protein having insecticidal properties. The plant which dispense with the additional application of crop heterologous gene in transgenic seed can originate, for protection agents after sowing or after the emergence of the example, from microorganisms of the species , Rizo plants or which at least considerably reduce additional appli bium, , Serratia, Trichoderma, Clavibacter, cation. It is furthermore desirable to optimize the amount of Glomus or Gliocladium. Preferably, this heterologous gene is active compound employed in Such away as to provide maxi from Bacillus sp., the gene product having activity against the mum protection for the seed and the germinating plant from European corn borer and/or the Western corn rootworm. Par attack by phytopathogenic fungi, but without damaging the ticularly preferably, the heterologous gene originates from plant itself by the active compound employed. In particular, Bacillus thuringiensis. methods for the treatment of seed should also take into con I0084. In the context of the present invention, the active sideration the intrinsic fungicidal properties of transgenic compound combinations or compositions according to the plants in order to achieve optimum protection of the seed and invention are applied on their own or in a Suitable formulation the germinating plant with a minimum of crop protection to the seed. Preferably, the seed is treated in a state in which agents being employed. it is sufficiently stable so that the treatment does not cause any 0078. Accordingly, the present invention also relates in damage. In general, treatment of the seed may take place at particular to a method for protecting seed and germinating any point in time between harvesting and Sowing. Usually, the plants against attack by phytopathogenic fungi by treating the seed used is separated from the plant and freed from cobs, seed with a composition according to the invention. The shells, stalks, coats, hairs or the flesh of the fruits. Thus, it is US 2014/0336231 A1 Nov. 13, 2014 possible to use, for example, seed which has been harvested, 0092 Defoamers that may be present in the seed dressing cleaned and dried to a moisture content of less than 15% by formulations to be used according to the invention include all weight. Alternatively, it is also possible to use seed which, foam-inhibiting compounds which are customary in the for after drying, has been treated, for example, with water and mulation of agrochemically active compounds. Preference is then dried again. given to using silicone defoamers, magnesium Stearate, sili 0085. When treating the seed, care must generally be taken cone emulsions, long-chain alcohols, fatty acids and their that the amount of the composition according to the invention salts and also organofluorine compounds and mixtures applied to the seed and/or the amount of further additives is thereof. chosen in Such a way that the germination of the seed is not 0093 Preservatives that may be present in the seed dress adversely affected, or that the resulting plant is not damaged. ing formulations to be used according to the invention include This must be borne in mind in particular in the case of active all compounds which can be used for Such purposes in agro compounds which may have phytotoxic effects at certain chemical compositions. By way of example, mention may be application rates. made of dichlorophen and benzyl alcohol hemiformal. I0086. The compositions according to the invention can be 0094 Secondary thickeners that may be present in the applied directly, that is to say without comprising further seed dressing formulations to be used according to the inven components and without having been diluted. In general, it is tion include all compounds which can be used for Such pur preferable to apply the compositions to the seed in the form of poses in agrochemical compositions. Preference is given to a suitable formulation. Suitable formulations and methods for cellulose derivatives, acrylic acid derivatives, polysaccha the treatment of seed arc known to the person skilled in the art rides, such as Xanthan gum or Veegum, modified clays, phyl and are described, for example, in the following documents: losilicates. Such as attapulgite and bentonite, and also finely U.S. Pat. No. 4,272,417 A, U.S. Pat. No. 4245,432 A, U.S. divided silicic acids. Pat. No. 4,808,430 A, U.S. Pat. No. 5,876,739 A, US 2003/ 0.095 Suitable adhesives that may be present in the seed 0176428 A1, WO 2002/080675A1, WO 2002/028.186 A2. dressing formulations to be used according to the invention 0087. The active compound combinations which can be include all customary binders which can be used in seed used according to the invention can be converted into custom dressings. Polyvinylpyrrolidone, polyvinyl acetate, polyvi ary seed dressing formulations, such as solutions, emulsions, nyl alcohol and tylose may be mentioned as being preferred. Suspensions, powders, foams, slurries or other coating mate 0096 Suitable gibberellins that may be present in the seed dressing formulations to be used according to the invention rials for seed, and also ULV formulations. are preferably the gibberellins A1, A3 (gibberellic acid), A4 0088. These formulations are prepared in a known manner and A7: particular preference is given to using gibberellic by mixing the active compounds or active compound combi acid. The gibberellins are known (cf. R. Wegler “Chemie der nations with customary additives, such as, for example, cus Pflanzenschutz- and Schädlingsbekämpfungsmittel Chem tomary extenders and also solvents or diluents, colorants, istry of Crop Protection Agents and Pesticides, Vol. 2, wetting agents, dispersants, emulsifiers, defoamers, preser Springer Verlag, 1970, pp. 401-412). Vatives, secondary thickeners, adhesives, gibberellins and 0097. The seed dressing formulations which can be used water as well. according to the invention may be used directly or after dilu 0089 Suitable colorants that may be present in the seed tion with water beforehand to treat seed of any of a very wide dressing formulations which can be used according to the variety of types. The seed dressing formulations which can be invention include all colorants customary for Such purposes. used according to the invention or their dilute preparations Use may be made both of pigments, of sparing solubility in may also be used to dress seed of transgenic plants. In this water, and of dyes, which are soluble in water. Examples that context, synergistic effects may also arise in interaction with may be mentioned include the colorants known under the the Substances formed by expression. designations Rhodamine B. C.I. Pigment Red 112, and C.I. 0.098 Suitable mixing equipment for treating seed with Solvent Red 1. the seed dressing formulations which can be used according 0090 Suitable wetting agents that may be present in the to the invention or the preparations prepared from them by seed dressing formulations which can be used according to adding water includes all mixing equipment which can com the invention include all Substances which promote wetting monly be used for dressing. The specific procedure adopted and are customary in the formulation of active agro-chemical when dressing comprises introducing the seed into a mixer, substances. With preference it is possible to use alkylnaph adding the particular desired amount of seed dressing formu thalene-Sulphonates, such as diisopropyl- or diisobutylnaph lation, either as it is or following dilution with water before thalene-Sulphonates. hand, and carrying out mixing until the formulation is uni 0091 Suitable dispersants and/or emulsifiers that may be formly distributed on the seed. Optionally, a drying operation present in the seed dressing formulations which can be used follows. according to the invention include all nonionic, anionic, and 0099. The active compounds or compositions according to cationic dispersants which are customary in the formulation the invention have strong microbicidal activity and can be of active agrochemical Substances. With preference, it is pos used for controlling unwanted microorganisms, such as fungi sible to use nonionic or anionic dispersants or mixtures of and bacteria, in crop protection and material protection. nonionic or anionic dispersants. Particularly suitable non 0100. In crop protection, fungicides can be used for con ionic dispersants are ethylene oxide-propylene oxide block trolling Plasmodiophoromycetes, Oomycetes, Chytridi polymers, alkylphenol polyglycol ethers, and tristyrylphenol omycetes, Zygomycetes, Ascomycetes, Basidiomycetes and polyglycol ethers, and their phosphated or Sulphated deriva Deuteromycetes. tives. Particularly suitable anionic dispersants are lignoSul 0101. In crop protection, bactericides can be used for con phonates, polyacrylic salts, and arylsulphonate-formalde trolling Pseudomonadaceae, Rhizobiaceae, Enterobacteri hyde condensates. aceae, Corynehacteriaceae and Streptomycetaceae. US 2014/0336231 A1 Nov. 13, 2014

0102 The fungicidal compositions according to the inven rape), Fabacae sp. (for example beans, peas, peanuts), Papil tion can be used for the curative or protective control of ionaceae sp. (for example Soya beans), Solanaceae sp. (for phytopathogenic fungi. Accordingly, the invention also example potatoes), Chenopodiaceae sp. (for example Sugar relates to curative and protective methods for controlling beet, fodderbeet, beetroot); and also in each case genetically phytopathogenic fungi using the active compound combina modified varieties of these plants. tions or compositions according to the invention, which are 0108. As already mentioned above, it is possible to treat all applied to the seed, the plant or plant parts, the fruit or the soil plants and their parts according to the invention. In a preferred in which the plants grow. Preference is given to application embodiment, wild plant species and plant cultivars, or those onto the plant or the plant parts, the fruits or the soil in which obtained by conventional biological breeding methods. Such the plants grow. as crossing or protoplast fusion, and parts thereof, are treated. 0103) The compositions according to the invention for In a further preferred embodiment, transgenic plants and combating phytopathogenic fungi in crop protection com plant cultivars obtained by genetic engineering methods, if prise an active, but non-phytotoxic amount of the compounds appropriate in combination with conventional methods (ge according to the invention. “Active, but non-phytotoxic netically modified organisms), and parts thereof are treated. amount' shall mean an amount of the composition according The terms “parts”, “parts of plants' and “plant parts” have to the invention which is sufficient to control or to completely been explained above. Particularly preferably, plants of the kill the plant disease caused by fungi, which amount at the plant cultivars which are in each case commercially available same time does not exhibit noteworthy symptoms of phyto or in use are treated according to the invention. Plant cultivars toxicity. These application rates generally may be varied in a are to be understood as meaning plants having novel proper broader range, which rate depends on several factors, e.g. the ties (“traits') which have been obtained by conventional phytopathogenic fungi, the plant or crop, the climatic condi breeding, by mutagenesis or by recombinant DNA tech tions and the ingredients of the composition according to the niques. These can be cultivars, bio- or genotypes. invention. 0109 The method of treatment according to the invention 0104. The fact that the active compounds, at the concen is used in the treatment of genetically modified organisms trations required for the controlling of plant diseases, are well (GMOs), e.g. plants or seeds. Genetically modified plants (or tolerated by plants permits the treatment of aerial plant parts, transgenic plants) are plants of which a heterologous gene has of vegetative propagation material and seed, and of the soil. been stably integrated into the genome. The expression "het 0105. According to the invention, it is possible to treat all erologous gene' essentially means a gene which is provided plants and parts of plants. Plants are to be understood here as or assembled outside the plant and when introduced in the meaning all plants and plant populations, such as wanted and nuclear, chloroplastic or mitochondtial genome gives the unwanted wild plants or crop plants (including naturally transformed plant new or improved agronomic or other prop occurring crop plants). Crop plants can be plants which can be erties by expressing a protein or polypeptide of interest or by obtained by conventional breeding and optimization methods down regulating or silencing other gene(s) which are present or by biotechnological and genetic engineering methods or in the plant. (using for example, antisense technology, co combinations of these methods, including the transgenic suppression technology or RNA interference RNAi-tech plants and including plant cultivars which can or cannot be nology). A heterologous gene that is located in the genome is protected by plant variety protection rights. Parts of plants are also called a transgene. A transgene that is defined by its to be understood as meaning all above-ground and below particular location in the plant genome is called a transfor ground parts and organs of the plants, such as shoot, leaf. mation or transgenic event. flower and root, examples which may be mentioned being 0110 Depending on the plant species or plant cultivars, leaves, needles, stems, trunks, flowers, fruit bodies, fruits and their location and growth conditions (soils, climate, vegeta seeds and also roots, tubers and rhizomes. Plant parts also tion period, diet), the treatment according to the invention include harvested material and vegetative and generative may also result in Super-additive (“synergistic) effects. propagation material, for example seedlings, tubers, rhi Thus, for example, reduced application rates and/or a widen Zomes, cuttings and seeds. Preference is given to the treat ing of the activity spectrum and/or an increase in the activity ment of the plants and the above-ground and below-ground of the active compounds and compositions which can be used parts and organs of the plants. Such as shoot, leaf flower and according to the invention, better plant growth, increased root, examples which may be mentioned being leaves, tolerance to high or low temperatures, increased tolerance to needles, stems, trunks, flowers, and fruits. drought or to water or soil salt content, increased flowering 0106 The active compounds of the invention, in combi performance, easier harvesting, accelerated maturation, nation with good plant tolerance and favourable toxicity to higher harvest yields, bigger fruits, larger plant height, warm-blooded animals and being tolerated well by the envi greener leaf color, earlier flowering, higher quality and/or a ronment, are Suitable for protecting plants and plant organs, higher nutritional value of the harvested products, higher for increasing the harvest yields, for improving the quality of Sugar concentration within the fruits, better storage stability the harvested material. They may be preferably employed as and/or processability of the harvested products are possible, crop protection agents. They are active against normally sen which exceed the effects which were actually to be expected. sitive and resistant species and against all or some stages of 0111. At certain application rates, the active compound development. combinations according to the invention may also have a to 0107 The following plants may be mentioned as plants strengthening effect in plants. Accordingly, they are also Suit which can be treated according to the invention: cotton, Pavil able for mobilizing the defense system of the plant against ionaceae sp. (for example peas); major crop plants, such attack by unwanted phytopathogenic fungi and/or microor Gramineae sp. (for example maize, cereals such as wheat, rye, ganisms and/or viruses. This may, if appropriate, be one of the rice, barley, oats, millet and triticale), Asteraceae sp. (for reasons of the enhanced activity of the combinations accord example Sunflowers), Brassicaceae sp. (for example oilseed ing to the invention, for example against fungi. Plant US 2014/0336231 A1 Nov. 13, 2014 strengthening (resistance-inducing) Substances are to be typically, malesterility is the result of genetic determinants in understood as meaning, in the present context, those Sub the plant genome. In that case, and especially when seed is the stances or combinations of Substances which are capable of desired product to be harvested from the hybrid plants it is stimulating the defense system of plants in Such a way that, typically useful to ensure that male fertility in the hybrid when Subsequently inoculated with unwanted phytopatho plants is fully restored. This can be accomplished by ensuring genic fungi and/or microorganisms and/or viruses, the treated that the male parents have appropriate fertility restorer genes plants display a substantial degree of resistance to these phy which are capable of restoring the male fertility in hybrid topathogenic fungi and/or microorganisms and/or viruses. plants that contain the genetic determinants responsible for Thus, the Substances according to the invention can be male-sterility. Genetic determinants for male sterility may be employed for protecting plants against attack by the above located in the cytoplasm. Examples of cytoplasmic male Ste mentioned pathogens within a certain period of time after the rility (CMS) were for instance described in Brassica species. treatment. The period of time within which protection is However, genetic determinants for male sterility can also be effected generally extends from 1 to 10 days, preferably 1 to located in the nuclear genome. Malesterile plants can also be 7 days, after the treatment of the plants with the active com obtained by plant biotechnology methods such as genetic pounds. engineering. A particularly useful means of obtaining male 0112 Plants and plant cultivars which are preferably to be sterile plants is described in WO 89/10396 in which, for treated according to the invention include all plants which example, a ribonuclease Such as harnase is selectively have genetic material which impart particularly advanta expressed in the tapetum cells in the stamens. Fertility can geous, useful traits to these plants (whether obtained by then be restored by expression in the tapetum cells of a ribo breeding and/or biotechnological means). nuclease inhibitor Such as barstar. 0113 Plants and plant cultivars which are also preferably 0117 Plants or plant cultivars (obtained by plant biotech to be treated according to the invention are resistant against. nology methods such as genetic engineering) which may be one or more biotic stresses, i.e. said plants show a better treated according to the invention are herbicide-tolerant defense against animal and microbial pests, such as against plants, i.e. plants made tolerant to one or more given herbi nematodes, insects, mites, phytopathogenic fungi, bacteria, cides. Such plants can be obtained either by genetic transfor viruses and/or viroids. mation, or by selection of plants containing a mutation 0114 Plants and plant cultivars which may also be treated imparting Such herbicide tolerance. according to the invention are those plants which are resistant 0118. Herbicide-tolerant plants are for example glypho to one or more abiotic stresses. Abiotic stress conditions may sate-tolerant plants, i.e. plants made tolerant to the herbicide include, for example, drought, cold temperature exposure, glyphosate or salts thereof. Plants can be made tolerant to heat exposure, osmotic stress, flooding, increased soil salin glyphosate through different means. For example, glypho ity, increased mineral exposure, ozon exposure, high light sate-tolerant plants can be obtained by transforming the plant exposure, limited availability of nitrogen nutrients, limited with a gene encoding the enzyme 5-enolpyruvylshikimate-3- availability of phosphorus nutrients, shade avoidance. phosphate synthase (EPSPS). Examples of such EPSPS 0115 Plants and plant cultivars which may also be treated genes are the AroA gene (mutant CT7) of the bacterium according to the invention, are those plants characterized by Salmonella typhimurium, the CP4 gene of the bacterium enhanced yield characteristics. Increased yield in said plants Agrobacterium sp., the genes encoding a Petunia EPSPS, a can be the result of for example, improved plant physiology, Tomato EPSPS, or an Eleusine EPSPS. It can also be a growth and development, such as water use efficiency, water mutated EPSPS. Glyphosate-tolerant plants can also be retention efficiency, improved nitrogen use, enhanced carbon obtained by expressing a gene that encodes a glyphosate assimilation, improved photosynthesis, increased germina oxido-reductase enzyme. Glyphosate-tolerant plants can also tion efficiency and accelerated maturation. Yield can further be obtained by expressing a gene that encodes a glyphosate more be affected by improved plantarchitecture (under stress acetyl transferase enzyme. Glyphosate-tolerant plants can and non-stress conditions), including but not limited to, early also be obtained by selecting plants containing naturally flowering, flowering control for hybrid seed production, seed occurring mutations of the above-mentioned genes. ling vigor, plant size, internode number and distance, root 0119) Other herbicide resistant plants are for example growth, seed size, fruit size, pod size, pod or ear number, seed plants that are made tolerant to herbicides inhibiting the number per pod or ear, seed mass, enhanced seed filling, enzyme glutamine synthase. Such as hialaphos, phosphino reduced seed dispersal, reduced pod dehiscence and lodging thricin or glufosinate. Such plants can be obtained by express resistance. Further yield traits include seed composition, Such ing an enzyme detoxifying the herbicide or a mutant as carbohydrate content, protein content, oil content and com glutamine synthase enzyme that is resistant to inhibition. position, nutritional value, reduction in anti-nutritional com 0.120. One such efficient detoxifying enzyme is an enzyme pounds, improved processability and better storage stability. encoding a phosphinothricin acetyltransferase (such as the 0116 Plants that may be treated according to the invention bar orpat protein from Streptomyces species). Plants express are hybrid plants that already express the characteristic of ing an exogenous phosphinothricinacetyltransferase are also heterosis or hybrid vigor which results in generally higher described. yield, vigor, health and resistance towards biotic and abiotic I0121 Further herbicide-tolerant plants are also plants that stress factors. Such plants are typically made by crossing an are made tolerant to the herbicides inhibiting the enzyme inbred male-sterile parent line (the female parent) with hydroxyphenylpyruvatedioxygenase (HPPD). Hydroxyphe another inbred male-fertile parent line (the male parent). nylpyruvatedioxygenases are enzymes that catalyze the reac Hybrid seed is typically harvested from the malesterile plants tion in which para-hydroxyphenylpynivate (HPP) is trans and sold to growers. Malesterile plants can sometimes (e.g. in formed into homogentisate. Plants tolerant to HPPD corn) be produced by detasseling, i.e. the mechanical removal inhibitors can be transformed with a gene encoding a of the male reproductive organs (or males flowers) but, more naturally-occurring resistant HPPD enzyme, or a gene encod US 2014/0336231 A1 Nov. 13, 2014

ing a mutated HPPD enzyme. Tolerance to HPPD-inhibitors listed at: http://www.lifesci.sussex.ac.uk/home/Neil Crick can also be obtained by transforming plants with genes more/Bt/vip.html, e.g. proteins from the VIP3Aa protein encoding certain enzymes enabling the formation of class; or homogentisate despite the inhibition of the native HPPD I0131 6) secreted protein from Bacillus thuringiensis or enzyme by the HPPD-inhibitor. Tolerance of plants to HPPD Bacillus cereus which is insecticidal in the presence of a inhibitors can also be improved by transforming plants with a second secreted protein from Bacillus thuringiensis or B. gene encoding an enzyme prephenate dehydrogenase in addi cereus, such as the binary toxin made up of the VIP1A and tion to a gene encoding an HPPD-tolerant enzyme. VIP2A proteins; or 0122) Still further herbicide resistant plants are plants that I0132 7) hybrid insecticidal protein comprising parts from are made tolerant to acetolactate synthase (ALS) inhibitors. different secreted proteins from Bacillus thuringiensis or Known ALS-inhibitors include, for example, sulfonylurea, Bacillus cereus, such as a hybrid of the proteins in 1) above or imidazolinone, triazolopyrimidines, pyrimidinyoxy (thio) a hybrid of the proteins in 2) above; or benzoates, and/or Sulfonylaminocarbonyltriazolinone herbi 0.133 8) protein of any one of 1) to 3) above wherein some, cides. Different mutations in the ALS enzyme (also known as particularly 1 to 10, amino acids have been replaced by acetohydroxyacid synthase, AHAS) are known to confer tol anotheramino acid to obtain a higher insecticidal activity to a erance to different herbicides and groups of herbicides. The target insect species, and/or to expand the range of target production of Sulfonylurea-tolerant plants and imidazoli insect species affected, and/or because of changes introduced none-tolerant plants is described in WO 1996/033270. Other into the encoding DNA during cloning or transformation imidazolinone-tolerant plants are also described. Further sul (while still encoding an insecticidal protein), such as the fonylurea- and imidazolinone-tolerant plants are also VIP3Aa protein in cotton event COT102. described in for example WO 2007/024782. 0.134. Of course, an insect-resistant transgenic plant, as 0123. Other plants tolerant to imidazolinone and/or sulfo used herein, also includes any plant comprising a combina nylurea can be obtained by induced mutagenesis, selection in tion of genes encoding the proteins of any one of the above cell cultures in the presence of the herbicide or mutation classes 1 to 8. In one embodiment, an insect-resistant plant breeding as described for example for soybeans, for rice, for contains more than one transgene encoding a protein of any sugar beet, for lettuce, or for sunflower. one of the above classes 1 to 8, to expand the range of target 0.124 Plants or plant cultivars (obtained by plant biotech insect species affected when using different proteins directed nology methods such as genetic engineering) which may also at different target insect species, or to delay insect resistance be treated according to the invention are insect-resistant development to the plants by using different proteins insecti transgenic plants, i.e. plants made resistant to attack by cer cidal to the same target insect species but having a different tain target insects. Such plants can be obtained by genetic mode of action, such as binding to different receptor binding transformation, or by selection of plants containing a muta sites in the insect. tion imparting Such insect resistance. 0.135 Plants or plant cultivars (obtained by plant biotech 0.125. An “insect-resistant transgenic plant, as used nology methods such as genetic engineering) which may also herein, includes any plant containing at least one transgene be treated according to the invention are tolerant to abiotic comprising a coding sequence encoding: stresses. Such plants can be obtained by genetic transforma 0126 1) an insecticidal crystal protein from Bacillus thu tion, or by selection of plants containing a mutation imparting ringiensis oran insecticidal portion thereof. Such as the insec Such stress resistance. Particularly useful stress tolerance ticidal crystal proteins listed online at: http://www.lifesci. plants include: Sussex.ac.uk/Home/Neil Crickmore/Bt/, or insecticidal 0.136 a. plants which contain a transgene capable of portions thereof, e.g., proteins of the Cry protein classes reducing the expression and/or the activity of poly(ADP Cry1Ab, Cry1Ac, Cry1F, Cry2Ab, Cry3Aa, or Cry3Bb or ribose)polymerase (PARP) gene in the plant cells or plants insecticidal portions thereof; or 0.137 b. plants which contain a stress tolerance enhancing 0127 2) a crystal protein from Bacillus thuringiensis or a transgene capable of reducing the expression and/or the activ portion thereof which is insecticidal in the presence of a ity of the PARG encoding genes of the plants or plants cells. second other crystal protein from Bacillus thuringiensis or a 0.138 c. plants which contain a stress tolerance enhancing portion thereof, such as the binary toxin made up of the Cry34 transgene coding for a plant-functional enzyme of the nico and Cry35 crystal proteins; or tinamide adenine dinucleotide Salvage synthesis pathway 0128. 3) a hybrid insecticidal protein comprising parts of including nicotinamidase, nicotinate phosphoribosyltrans different insecticidal crystal proteins from Bacillus thuring ferase, nicotinic acid mononucleotide adenyl transferase, iensis, such as a hybrid of the proteins of 1) above or a hybrid nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide synthetase or nicotine of the proteins of 2) above, e.g., the Cry1A.105 protein pro amide phosphorybosyltransferase. duced by corn event MON98034 (WO 2007/027777); or 0.139 Plants or plant cultivars (obtained by plant biotech 0129. 4) a protein of any one of 1) to 3) above wherein nology methods such as genetic engineering) which may also Some, particularly 1 to 10, amino acids have been replaced by be treated according to the invention show altered quantity, anotheramino acid to obtain a higher insecticidal activity to a quality and/or storage-stability of the harvested product and/ target insect species, and/or to expand the range of target or altered properties of specific ingredients of the harvested insect species affected, and/or because of changes introduced product Such as: into the encoding DNA during cloning or transformation, 0140. 1) transgenic plants which synthesize a modified such as the Cry3Bb1 protein in corn events MON863 or starch, which in its physical-chemical characteristics, in par MON88017, or the Cry3A protein in corn event MIR604; ticular the amylose content or the amylose? amylopectin ratio, 0130 5) an insecticidal secreted protein from Bacillus the degree of branching, the average chain length, the side thuringiensis or Bacillus cereus, or an insecticidal portion chain distribution, the Viscosity behaviour, the gelling thereof, such as the vegetative insecticidal (VIP) proteins strength, the starch grain size and/or the starch grain morphol US 2014/0336231 A1 Nov. 13, 2014

ogy, is changed in comparison with the synthesised starch in (tolerance to imidazolinones) and STS(R) (tolerance to Sulpho wild type plant cells or plants, so that this is better suited for nylureas, for example maize). Herbicide-resistant plants special applications. (plants bred in a conventional manner for herbicide tolerance) 0141 2) transgenic plants which synthesize non starch which may be mentioned include the varieties sold under the carbohydrate polymers or which synthesize non starch car name Clearfield(R) (for example maize). bohydrate polymers with altered properties in comparison to 0155 Particularly useful transgenic plants which may be wild type plants without genetic modification. Examples are treated according to the invention are plants containing trans plants producing polyfructose, especially of the inulin and formation events, or combination of transformation events, levan-type, plants producing alpha 1.4 glucans, plants pro that are listed for example in the databases from various ducing alpha-1,6 branched alpha-1,4-glucans, plants produc national or regional regulatory agencies (see for example ing alternan, 0156 http://gmoinfo.jrc.it/gmp browse.aspx and http:/ 0142 3) transgenic plants which produce hyaluronan. www.agbios.com/dbase.php). 0143 Plants or plant cultivars (that can be obtained by plant biotechnology methods such as genetic engineering) 0157. In material protection the substances of the inven which may also be treated according to the invention are tion may be used for the protection of technical materials plants, such as cotton plants, with altered fiber characteristics. against infestation and destruction by undesirable fungi and/ Such plants can be obtained by genetic transformation or by or microorganisms. selection of plants contain a mutation imparting Such altered 0158 Technical materials are understood to be in the fiber characteristics and include: present context non-living materials that have been prepared 0144 a) Plants, such as cotton plants, containing an for use in engineering. For example, technical materials that altered form of cellulose synthase genes, are to be protected against micro-biological change or 0145 b) Plants, such as cotton plants, containing an destruction by the active materials of the invention can be altered form of rSw2 or rSW3 homologous nucleic acids, adhesives, glues, paper and cardboard, textiles, carpets, 0146 c) Plants, such as cotton plants, with increased leather, wood, paint and plastic articles, cooling lubricants expression of Sucrose phosphate synthase, and other materials that can be infested or destroyed by 0147 d) Plants, such as cotton plants, with increased micro-organisms. Within the context of materials to be pro expression of Sucrose synthase, tected are also parts of production plants and buildings, for 0148 e) Plants, such as cotton plants, wherein the timing example cooling circuits, cooling and heating systems, air of the plasmodesmatal gating at the basis of the fiber cell is conditioning and Ventilation systems, which can be adversely altered, e.g. through downregulation of fiberselective B 1.3- affected by the propagation of fungi and/or microorganisms. glucanase, Within the context of the present invention, preferably men 0149 f) Plants, such as cotton plants, having fibers with tioned as technical materials are adhesives, glues, paper and altered reactivity, e.g. through the expression of N-acteylglu cardboard, leather, wood, paints, cooling lubricants and heat cosaminetransferase gene including nodC and chitinsynthase exchanger liquids, particularly preferred is wood. The com genes. binations according to the invention can prevent disadvanta 0150 Plants or plant cultivars (that can be obtained by geous effects like decaying, dis- and decoloring, or molding. plant biotechnology methods such as genetic engineering) The active compound combinations and compositions which may also be treated according to the invention are according to the invention can likewise be employed for pro plants, such as oilseed rape or related Brassica plants, with tecting against colonization of objects, in particular ship altered oil profile characteristics. Such plants can be obtained hulls, sieves, nets, buildings, quays and signalling installa by genetic transformation or by selection of plants contain a tions, which are in contact with sea water or brackish water. mutation imparting Such altered oil characteristics and 0159. The method of treatment according to the invention include: can also be used in the field of protecting storage goods 0151 a) Plants, such as oilseed rape plants, producing oil against attack of fungi and microorganisms. According to the having a high oleic acid content, present invention, the term "storage goods” is understood to 0152 b) Plants such as oilseed rape plants, producing oil denote natural Substances of vegetable or animal origin and having a low linolenic acid content, their processed forms, which have been taken from the natural 0153 c) Plant such as oilseed rape plants, producing oil life cycle and for which long-term protection is desired. Stor having a low level of Saturated fatty acids. age goods of vegetable origin, Such as plants or parts thereof, 0154 Particularly useful transgenic plants which may be for example stalks, leafs, tuber, seeds, fruits or grains, can be treated according to the invention are plants which comprise protected in the freshly harvested state or in processed form, one or more genes which encode one or more toxins, such as Such as pre-dried, moistened, comminuted, round, pressed or the following which are sold under the trade names YIELD roasted. Also falling under the definition of storage goods is GARDR) (for example maize, cotton, soya beans), Knock timber, whether in the form of crude timber, such as construc Out(R) (for example maize), BiteGard(R) (for example maize), tion timber, electricity pylons and barriers, or in the form of Bt-Xtra.R. (for example maize), StarLink R. (for example finished articles, such as furniture or objects made from maize), Bollgard(R) (cotton), Nucorn R (cotton), Nucotn wood. Storage goods of animal origin are hides, leather, furs, 33B(R) (cotton), NatureGardr (for example maize), Pro hairs and the like. The combinations according the present tectaR) and NewLeafR (potato). Examples of herbicide-tol invention can prevent disadvantageous effects such as decay, erant plants which may be mentioned are maize varieties, discoloration or mold. Preferably “storage goods” is under cotton varieties and Soya bean varieties which are sold under stood to denote natural Substances of vegetable origin and the trade names Roundup Ready R (tolerance to glyphosate, their processed forms, more preferably fruits and their pro for example maize, cotton, Soya bean), Liberty Link. R (toler cessed forms, such as ponies, stone fruits, soft fruits and citrus ance to phosphinothricin, for example oilseed rape), IMIR) fruits and their processed forms. 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0160. In addition to the pathogens of fungal diseases men caused for example by Sarocladium Oryzae, Sclerotium dis tioned above, which can be treated according to the invention, eases caused for example by Sclerotium Oryzae, Tapesia dis the following diseases may be mentioned by way of example, eases caused for example by Tapesia acuformis. Thielaviop but not by way of limitation: sis diseases caused for example by Thielaviopsis basicola, 0161 Powdery Mildew Diseases such as Blumeria dis 0166 Ear and Panicle Diseases including Maize cob such eases caused for example by Blumeria graminis, as Alternaria diseases caused for example by Alternaria spp.; Podosphaera diseases caused for example by Podosphaera Aspergillus diseases caused for example by Aspergillus fia leuconicha, Sphaerotheca diseases caused for example by vus, Cladosporium diseases caused for example by Sphaerotheca fuliginea, Uncinula diseases caused for Cladiosporium cladosporioides, Claviceps diseases caused example by Uncinula necator, for example by Claviceps purpurea, Fusarium diseases 0162 Rust Diseases Such as Gymnosporangium diseases caused for example by Fusarium culmorum, Gibberella dis caused for example by Gymnosporangium Sabinae, Hemileia eases caused for example by Gibberella zeae, diseases caused for example by Hemileia vastatrix, Phakop Monographella diseases caused for example by Sora diseases caused for example by Phakopsora pachyrhizi Monographella nivalis, and Phakopsora meiborniae, Puccinia diseases caused for example by Puccinia recondita, Puccinia graminis or Puc 0.167 Smut- and Bunt Diseases such as Sphacelotheca cinia Striiformis, Uromyces diseases caused for example by diseases caused for example by Sphacelotheca reiliana, Tille Uromyces appendiculatus, Oomycete Diseases such as tia diseases caused for example by Tilletia caries, Urocystis Albugo diseases caused for example by Albugo candida, Bre diseases caused for example by Urocystis Occulta, Ustilago mia diseases caused for example by Bremia lactucae, Per diseases caused for example by Ustilago nuda, onospora diseases caused for example by Peronospora pisi 0168 Fruit Rot and Mould Diseases such as Aspergillus and Peronospora brassicae, Phytophthora diseases caused diseases caused for example by Aspergillus flavus, Botrytis for example by Phytophthora infestans, diseases caused for example by Botrytis cinerea, Penicillium 0163 Plasmopara diseases caused for example by Plas diseases caused for example by Penicillium expansium and mopara viticola, Pseudoperonospora diseases caused for Penicillium purpurogenium, Rhizopus diseases caused by example by Pseudoperonospora humuli and PseudoperOno example by Rhizopus stolonifer Sclerotinia diseases caused spora cubensis, Pythium diseases caused for example by for example by Sclerotinia Sclerotiorum, Verticillium dis Pythium ultimum, eases caused for example by Verticillium alboatrum, (0164 Leaf spot, Leaf blotch and Leaf Blight Diseases (0169. Seed- and Soilborne Decay, Mould, Wilt, Rot and Such as Alternaria diseases caused for example by Alternaria Damping-off diseases caused for example by Alternaria dis Solani; Cercospora diseases caused for example by Cer eases caused for example by Alternaria brassicicola, Apha cospora beticola, Cladiosporium diseases caused for nomyces diseases caused for example by Aphanomyces eute example by Cladiosporium cucumerinum, Cochliobolus dis iches, Ascochyta diseases caused for example by Ascochyta eases caused for example by Cochliobolus sativus (Conidi lentis, Aspergillus diseases caused for example by Aspergil aform: Drechslera, Syn: Helminthosporium) or Cochliobolus lus flavus, Cladosporium diseases caused for example by miyabeorus, Colletotrichum diseases caused for example by Cladosporium herbarum, Cochliobolus diseases caused for Colletotrichum lindemuthianum, Cycloconium diseases example by Cochliobolus sativus, (Conidiaform: Drechslera, caused for example by Cycloconium oleaginum, Diaporthe Bipolaris Syn: Helminthosporium); Colletotrichum diseases diseases caused for example by Diaporthe citri Elsinoe dis caused for example by Colletotrichum coccodes, Fusarium eases caused for example by Elsinoe fawcetti; Gloeosporium diseases caused for example by Fusarium culmorum, Gib diseases caused for example by Gloeosporium laeticolor, berella diseases caused for example by Gibberella zeae, Glomerella diseases caused for example by Glomerella cin Macrophomina diseases caused for example by Macro gulata, Guignardia diseases caused for example by Guignar phomina phaseolina, Microdochium diseases caused for dia bidwellii; Leptosphaeria diseases caused for example by example by Microdochium nivale, Monographella diseases Leptosphaeria maculans and Leptosphaeria nodorum, Mag caused for example by Monographella nivalis, Penicillium naporthe diseases caused for example by Magnaporthe diseases caused for example by Penicillium expansium, grisea, Mycosphaerella diseases caused for example by Phoma diseases caused for example by Phoma lingam, Pho Mycosphaerella graminicola, Mycosphaerella arachidicola mopsis diseases caused for example by Phomopsis sojae, and Mycosphaerella fijiensis, Phaeosphaeria diseases Phytophthora diseases caused for example by Phytophthora caused for example by Phaeosphaeria nodonin, Pyreno cactorum, Pyrenophora diseases caused for example by phora diseases caused for example by Pyrenophora teres or Pyrenophora graminea, Pyricularia diseases caused for Pyrenophora tritici repentis, Ranularia-diseases caused for example by Pyricularia Oryzae, Pythium diseases caused for example by Ranularia collo-Cygni or Ranularia areola, example by Pythium ultimum, Rhizoctonia diseases caused Rhynchosporium diseases caused for example by Rhynchos for example by Rhizoctonia Solani; Rhizopus diseases caused porium secalis, Septoria diseases caused for example by for example by Rhizopus Oryzae, Sclerotium diseases caused Septoria apii and Septoria lycopersici; Tiphula diseases for example by Sclerotium rolfsii; Septoria diseases caused caused for example by Thyphula incamata, Venturia diseases for example by Septoria nodorum, Tiphula diseases caused caused for example by Venturia inaequalis, for example by Tiphula incarnata, Verticillium diseases 0165 Root-, Sheath and Stem Diseases such as Corticium caused for example by Verticillium dahliae, diseases caused for example by Corticium graminearum, Fusarium diseases caused for example by Fusarium (0170 Canker, Broom and Dieback Diseases such as Nec Oxysporum, Gaeumannomyces diseases caused for example tria diseases caused for example by Nectria galligena, by Gaeumannomyces graminis, Rhizoctonia diseases caused 0171 Blight Diseases such as Monilinia diseases caused for example by Rhizoctonia Solani; Sarocladium diseases for example by Monilinia taxa, US 2014/0336231 A1 Nov. 13, 2014

0172 Leaf Blister or Leaf Curl Diseases including defor The active compounds according to the invention preferably mation of blooms and fruits such as Exobasidium diseases act against fungi, in particular moulds, wood-discolouring caused for example by Exobasidium vexans. and wood-destroying fungi (Basidiomycetes) and against 0173 Taphrina diseases caused for example by Taphrina slime organisms and algae. Microorganisms of the following deformans, genera may be mentioned as examples: Alternaria, Such as 0174 Decline Diseases of Wooden Plants such as Esca Alternaria tenuis, Aspergillus, Such as Aspergillus niger, disease caused for example by Phaeomoniella clamydospora, Chaetomium, Such as Chaetomium globosum, Coniophora, Phaeoacremonium aleophilum and Fomitiporia mediterra Such as Coniophora puetana, Lentinus, such as Lentinus nea, Ganoderma diseases caused for example by Ganoderma tigrinus, Penicillium, Such as Penicillium glaucum, Poly bominense, Rigidoporus diseases caused for example by Rigi porus, such as Polyporus versicolor; Aureobasidium, Such as doporus lignosus Aureobasidium pullulans, Sclerophoma, such as Sclero 0175 Diseases of Flowers and Seeds such as Botrytis dis phoma pityophila, Trichoderma, Such as Trichoderma viride, eases caused for example by Botrytis cinerea, Escherichia, Such as Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas, such as 0176 Diseases of Tubers such as Rhizoctonia diseases Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Staphylococcus, such as Sta caused for example by Rhizoctonia Solani; Helminthospo phylococcus aureus. rium diseases caused for example by Helminthosporium 0183 In addition, the compounds of the formula (I) Solani; according to the invention also have very good antimycotic 0177 Club root diseases such as Plasmodiophora dis activity. They have a very broad antimycotic activity spec eases, cause for example by Plamodiophora brassicae. trum in particular against dermatophytes and yeasts, moulds 0.178 Diseases caused by Bacterial Organisms such as and to diphasic fungi (for example against Candida species Xanthomonas species for example Xanthomonas campestris Such as Candida albicans, Candida glabrata) and Epidermo pV. Oryzae, Pseudomonas species for example Pseudomonas phyton floccosum, Aspergillus species such as Aspergillus syringae pv. lachrymans, Erwinia species for example niger and Aspergillus filmigatus, Trichophyton species Such Erwinia amylovora. as Trichophyton mentagrophytes, Microsporon species Such 0179 Preference is given to controlling the following dis as Microsporon canis and audouinii. The list of these fungi by eases of Soya beans: no means limits the mycotic spectrum which can be covered, 0180 Fungal diseases on leaves, sterns, pods and seeds but is only for illustration. caused, for example, by alternaria leaf spot (Alternaria spec. 0184. When applying the compounds according to the atrans tenuissima), anthracnose (Colletotrichum gloeospor invention the application rates can be varied within a broad Oides dematium var. truncatum), brown spot (Septoria gly range. The dose of active compound/application rate usually cines), cercospora leaf spot and blight (Cercospora kikuchii). applied in the method of treatment according to the invention choanephora leaf blight (Choanephora infundibulifera is generally and advantageously trispora (Syn.)), dactuliophora leaf spot (Dactuliophora gly 0185 for treatment of part of plants, e.g. leaves (foliar cines), downy mildew (Peronospora manshtuica), drechslera treatment): from 0.1 to 10,000 g/ha, preferably from 50 blight (Drechslera glycini), frogeye leaf spot (Cercospora to 1,000 g/ha, more preferably from 100 to 750 g/ha; in soina), leptosphaerulina leaf spot (Leptosphaerulina tri case of drench or drip application, the dose can even be folii), phyllostica leaf spot (Phyllosticta sojaecola), pod and reduced, especially while using inert Substrates like stem blight (Phomopsis sojae), powdery mildew (Mi rockwool or perlite; crosphaera diffusa), pyrenochaeta leaf spot (Pyrenochaeta 0186 for seed treatment: from 2 to 250 g per 100 kg of glycines), rhizoctonia aerial, foliage, and web blight (Rhizoc seed, preferably from 3 to 200g per 100 kg of seed, more tonia Solani), rust (Phakopsora pachyrhizi Phakopsora mei preferably from 2.5 to 50g per 100kg of seed, even more borniae), Scab (Sphaceloma glycines), Stemphylium leaf preferably from 2.5 to 25g per 100 kg of seed; blight (Stemphylium botryosum), target spot (Corynespora 0187 for soil treatment: from 0.1 to 10,000 g/ha, pref cassicola). Fungal diseases on roots and the stem base erably from 1 to 5.000 g/ha. caused, for example, by black root rot (Calonectria crota 0188 The doses herein indicated are given as illustrative lariae), charcoal rot (Macrophomina phaseolina), fusarium examples of the method according to the invention. A person blight or wilt, root rot, and pod and collar rot (Fusarium skilled in the art will know how to adapt the application doses, Oxysporum, Fusarium Orthoceras, Fusarium semitectum, notably according to the nature of the plant or crop to be Fusarium equiseti), mycoleptodiscus root rot (Mycoleptodis treated. cus terrestris), neocosmospora (Neocosmopspora vasin 0189 The combination according to the invention can be fecta), pod and stem blight (Diaporthe phaseolorum), stem used in order to protect plants within a certaintime range after canker (Diaporthe phaseolorum var. Caulivora), phytoph the treatment against pests and/orphytopathogenic fungi and/ thora rot (Phytophthora megasperma), brown stem rot (Phi or microorganisms. The time range, in which protection is alophora gregata), pythium rot (Pythium aphanidermatum, effected, spans in general 1 to 28 days, preferably 1 to 14 Pythium irregulare, Pythium debaryanum, Pythium myrioty days, more preferably 1 to 10 days, even more preferably 1 to lum, Pythium tiltinum), rhizoctonia root rot, stem decay, and 7 days after the treatment of the plants with the combinations damping-off (Rhizoctonia Solani), Sclerotinia stem decay or up to 200 days after the treatment of plant propagation (Sclerotinia sclerotiorum), sclerotinia Southern blight (Scle material. rotinia rolfsii), thielaviopsis root rot (Thielaviopsis basicola). 0190. The application of the compositions according to 0181. It is also possible to control resistant strains of the the invention on growing plants or plant parts can also be used organisms mentioned above. to protect plants or plant parts after harvesting. 0182 Microorganisms capable of degrading or changing 0191). According to the invention, post-harvest and storage the industrial materials which may be mentioned are, for diseases may be caused for example by the following fungi. example, bacteria, fungi, yeasts, algae and slime organisms. Colletotrichum spp., e.g. Colletotrichum musae, Colletotri US 2014/0336231 A1 Nov. 13, 2014

chum gloeosporioides, Colletotrichum coccodes, Fusarium S. R., "Calculating Synergistic and Antagonistic Responses spp., e.g. Fusarium semitectum, Fusarium moniliforme, of Herbicide Combinations', Weeds 1967, 15, 20-22): If Fusarium Solani, Fusarium oxysporum, Verticillium spp., 0.197 X is the efficacy when active compound A is e.g. Verticillium theobromae, Nigrospora spp., Botrytis spp., applied at an application rate of m ppm (org/ha), e.g. Botrytis cinerea, Geotrichum spp., e.g. Geotrichum can didum, Phomopsis spp., Phomopsis natalensis, Diplodia 0198 Y is the efficacy when active compound B is spp., e.g. Diplodia citri. Alternaria spp., e.g. Alternaria citri, applied at an application rate of n ppm (org/ha), Alternaria alternata, Phytophthora spp., e.g. Phytophthora 0199 E is the efficacy when the active compounds A citrophthora, Phytophthora fragariae, Phytophthora cac and B are applied at application rates of mand n ppm (or torum, Phytophthora parasitica, Septoria spp., e.g. Septoria g/ha), respectively, and then depressa, Mucor spp., e.g. Mucorpiriformis, Monilinia spp., e.g. Monilinia fructigena, Monilinia laxa, Venturia spp., e.g. Venturia inaequalis, Venturia pyrina, Rhizopus spp., e.g. E = x + Y-3 Rhizopus stolonifer; Rhizopus Oryzae, Glomerella spp., e.g. = x + r - Glomerella cingulata, Sclerotinia spp., e.g. Sclerotinia fruiti cola, Ceratocystis spp., e.g. Ceratocystis paradoxa, Penicil 0200. The degree of efficacy, expressed in % is denoted. lium spp., e.g. Penicillium funiculosum, Penicillium expan 0% means an efficacy which corresponds to that of the control sum, Penicillium digitatum, Penicillium italicum, Gloeosporium spp., e.g. Gloeosporium album, Gloeosporium while an efficacy of 100% means that no disease is observed. perennans, Gloeosporium fructigentun, Gloeosporium sin 0201 If the actual fungicidal activity exceeds the calcu gulata, Phlyctaena spp., e.g. Phlyctaena vagabunda, Cylin lated value, then the activity of the combination is superad drocarpon spp., e.g. Cylindrocarpon malii Stemphyllium ditive, i.e. a synergistic effect exists. In this case, the efficacy spp., e.g. Stemphyllium vesicarium, Phacydiopycnis spp., which was actually observed must be greater than the value e.g. Phacydiopycnis malirum. Thielaviopsis spp., e.g. for the expected efficacy (E) calculated from the abovemen Thielaviopsis paradoxy, Aspergillus spp., e.g. Aspergillus tioned formula. niger, Aspergillus carbonarius, Nectria spp., e.g. Nectria gal 0202 A further way of demonstrating a synergistic effect ligena, Pezicula spp. is the method of Tammes (cf. 'Isoboles, a graphic represen 0.192 According to the invention, post-harvest storage tation of synergism in pesticides’ in Neth, J. Plant Path., disorders are for example scald, scorch, softening, senescent 1964, 70, 73-80). breakdown, lenticel spots, bitter pit, browning, water core, 0203 The invention is illustrated by the examples below. vascular breakdown, CO injury, CO deficiency and O. defi However, the invention is not limited to the examples. ciency. 0193 Furthermore combinations and compositions EXAMPLE according to the invention may also be used to reduce the contents of mycotoxins in plants and the harvested plant material and therefore in foods and animal feed stuff made Alternaria Test (Tomatoes)/Preventive therefrom. Especially but not exclusively the following myc otoxins can be specified: Deoxynivalenole (DON), Nivale 0204 nole, 15-Ac-DON, 3-Ac-DON, T2- und HT2-Toxins, Fumo nisines, Zearalenone Moniliformine, Fusarine, Solvent: 24.5 parts by weight of acetone Diaceotoxyscirpenole (DAS), Beauvericine, Enniatine, 24.5 parts by weight of dimethylacetamide Fusaroproliferine, Fusarenole, Ochratoxines, Patuline, Emulsifier: 1 part by weight of alkylaryl polyglycol ether Ergotalkaloides und Aflatoxines, which are caused for example by the following fungal diseases: Fusarium spec. 0205 To produce a suitable preparation of active com like Fusarium acuminatum, F, avenaceum, F. Crookwellense, pound, 1 part by weight of active compound is mixed with the F. culmorum, F. graminearum (Gibberella zeae), F equiseti, stated amounts of solvent and emulsifier, and the concentrate F. fijikoroi, F. musarum, F. Oxysporum, F. proliferatum, F. is diluted with water to the desired concentration. To test for poae, F. pseudograminearum, F. Sambucinum, F. Scirpi, F. preventive activity, young plants are sprayed with the prepa semitectum, F. Solani, F. Sporotrichoides, F. langsethiae, F. ration of active compound at the stated rate of application. subglutinans, F tricinctum, F. verticillioides and others but After the spray coating has dried on, the plants are inoculated also by Aspergillus spec., Penicillium spec., Claviceps pur with an aqueous Suspension of Alternaria Solani. The purea, Stachybotry's spec. and others. plants are then placed in an incubation cabinet at approxi 0194 The good fungicidal activity of the active compound mately 20° C. and a relative atmospheric humidity of 100%. combinations according to the invention is evident from the The test is evaluated 3 days after the inoculation. 0% means example below. While the individual active compounds an efficacy which corresponds to that of the untreated control exhibit weaknesses with regard to the fungicidal activity, the while an efficacy of 100% means that no disease is observed. combinations have an activity which exceeds a simple addi The table below clearly shows that the observed activity of the tion of activities. active compound combination according to the invention is 0.195 A synergistic effect of fungicides is always present greater than the calculated activity, i.e. a synergistic effect is when the fungicidal activity of the active compound combi present. The difference between the biological activity found nations exceeds the total of the activities of the active com in the experiment and the activity calculated by using Colby's pounds when applied individually. formula shows a clear Superiority in Synergism of the combi 0196. The expected activity for a given combination of nation according to the invention compared to the known two active compounds can be calculated as follows (cf. Colby, combination. US 2014/0336231 A1 Nov. 13, 2014 18

0206 Results: Alternaria Test (Tomatoes)/Preventive tamera, Claviceps purpurea, Cochliobolus sativus, Colletot richum graminicola, Coprinus psychromorbidus, Dilophospora alopecuri, Drechslera campanulata, Drech Application slera triticirepentis, Drechslera wirreganesis, Epicoccum rate of active compound Efficacy in 90 spp., Erysiphe graminis, Fusarium avenaceum, Fusarium culmorum, Fusarium graminearum, Fusarium Active compounds in ppm a.i. found: calc.** diff.*** pseudograminearum, Gaeumannomyces graminis, Gaeun annomyces graminis var. avenae, Gaeumannomyces grani (A) Prothioconazole 2 41 1 18 nis var. tritici, Gibberella avenacea, Gibberella zeae, Gibel O.S O lina cerealis, Glomerella graminicola, Hymenula cerealis, (B) Fluxapyroxad 1 87 Lagena radicicola, Leptosphaeria herpotrichoides, Lep O.S 65 tosphaeria microscopica, Leptosphaeria nodorum, Ligniera O.25 62 Epoxiconazole 2 59 pilorum, Linochoragraminis, Microdochium bolleyi, Micro 1 53 dochium nivale, Monographella nivalis, Mycosphaerella O.S 41 graminicola, Oidium monilioides, Olpidium brassicae, known combination Phaeosphaeria avenaria f. sp. triticea, Phaeosphaeria Epoxiconazole + (B) 2: 2 + 1 91 95 -4 nodorum, Phoma Sorghina, Phoma glomerata, Phyllachora 4: 2 - O.S 87 86 1 graminis, Pseudocercosporella herpotrichoides var. acufor 8: 2 + 0.25 93 84 9 mis, Pseudocercosporella herpotrichoides, Puccinia grani Epoxiconazole + (B) 1: 1 + 1 94 94 O 2: 1 - O.S 94 84 10 nis, Puccinia hordei, Puccinia recondita, Puccinia striifor 4: 1 - 0.25 88 82 6 mis, Puccinia tritici-duri, Puccinia triticina, Pyrenophora Epoxiconazole + (B) 1:2 OS - 1 88 92 -4 graminea, Pyrenophora semeniperda, Pyrenophora teres, 1: O.5 - O.S 88 79 9 Pyrenophora tritici-repentis, Pythium myriotylum, Pythium 2: O.5 + 0.25 82 78 4 aphanidermatum, Pythium aristosporum, Pythium arrhe combination according to the invention nomanes, Pythium graminicola, Pythium iwayamai, Pythium (A) + (B) 2: 2 + 1 94 92 2 Okanoganense, Pythium volutum, Rhizoctonia cerealis, 4: 2 - O.S 91 79 12 Rhizoctonia Solani, Rhizophydium graminis, Sclerophthora 8: 2 + 0.25 88 78 10 (A) + (B) 1: 1 + 1 94 89 5 macrospore, Sclerotinia borealis, Sclerotium rolfsii, Sclero 2: 1 + 0.5 85 71 14 tium rolfsii, Selenophoma donacis, Septoria nodorum, Sep 4: 1 - 0.25 81 69 12 toria tritici, Sphacelia Segetum, Sporobolomyces spp., (A) + (B) 1:2 OS - 1 94 87 7 Stagonospora avenae f.sp. tritica, Stemphyllium spp., Tapesia 1: O.5 - O.S 88 65 23 vallundae, Thanatephorus cucumeris, Tilletia caries, Tilletia 2: O.5 + 0.25 90 62 28 controversa, Tilletia foetida, Tilletia indica (=Neovossia *found = activity found indica), Tilletia laevis, Tiphula idahoensis, Tiphula incar **calc. = activity calculated using Colby's formula nata, Tiphula ishikariensis Imai var. Canadensis, Tiphula *** diff, = difference between activity found and activity calculated using Colby's formula ishikariensis, Uredo glunarum, Urocystis agropyri, Ustilago segetum avena, Ustilago Segetum nuda, Ustilago Segetum 1. A method for controlling phytopathogenic fungi in a tritici, and/or Ustilago tritici. crop selected from wheat, barley, rye, triticale, oats, millet, 8. A method according to claim 1, wherein the crop com rice, corn, rape, canola, pea, peanut, Sugar beet, fodder beet, prises barley, and the method controls barley diseases caused beetroot, potato, or cotton comprising applying an active by Alternaria spp., Apiospora montagnei, Arthrinium arun compound combination comprising (A) prothioconazole and dinis, Ascochyta hordei, Asochyta graminea, Asochyta (B) fluxapyroxad to the crop seed, crop plant, crop fruit and/or Sorghi, Asocyhta tritici, Athelia rolfsii, Bipolaris Sorokiniana, to Soil on which the crop plant grows or is supposed to grow. Blumeria graminis, Cephalosporium gramineum, Ceratoba 2. A method according to claim 1, wherein the compound sidium cereale, Claviceps purpurea, Cochliobolus sativus, combination comprises as Sole active ingredients (A) prothio Colletotrichum graminicola, Drechslera graminea, Drech conazole and (B) fluxapyroxad. slera teres f. maculata, Drechslera teres, Drechslera wir 3. A method according to claim 1, wherein the combination reganensis, Erysiphe graminis f.sp. hordei, Fusarium cul comprises an additional third fungicidally active compound morum, Fusarium graminearum, Fusarium nivale, Fusarium (C). spp., Gaeumannomyces graminis var. tritici, Gibberella zeae, 4. A method according to claim 1, wherein the plant, the Glomerella graminicola, Helminthosporium tritici-repentis, fruits of plants, or the Soil on which the plant grows or is Microdochium nivale, Monographella nivalis, Oidium monil intended to grow are treated. ioides, Phaeosphaeria avenaria f. sp. triticea, Pseudocer 5. A method according to claim 1, wherein leaves are cosoporella herpotrichoides, Pseudoseptoria donacis, Puc treated from 0.1 to 10,000 g/ha or seeds are treated from 2 to cinia coronata, Puccinia graminis, Puccinia hordei, Puccinia 200 g per 100 kg of seed employed. Striiformis, Pyrenophora teres, Pyrenophora tritici-repentis, 6. A method according to claim 1, wherein seed, seed of Pythium arrhenomanes, Pythium graminicola, Pythium transgenic plants, and/or transgenic plants are treated iwayamai, Pythium Okanoganense, Pythium paddicum, 7. A method according to claim 1, wherein the crop com Pythium spp., Pythium tardicrescens, Rhizoctonia cerealis, prises wheat, and the method controls wheat diseases caused Rhizoctonia Solani, Rhynchosporium secalis, Sclerophthora by Alternaria spp., Alternaria triticina, Ascochyta tritici, rayssiae, Sclerotinia borealis, Sclerotium rolfsii, Seleno Athelia rolfsi, Bipolaris Sorokiniana, Blumeria graminis, phoma donacis, Septoria donacis, Septoria nodorum, Septo Cephalosporium gramineum, Ceratobasidium cereale, Cla ria passerinni, Sphacelia segetum, Stagonospora avenae f. dosporium spp., Cladosporium herbarum, Clathrospora pen sp. triticea, Stagonospora nodrum, Tapesia vallundae, Tha US 2014/0336231 A1 Nov. 13, 2014 19 natephorus cucumeris, Tilletia controversa, Tiphula idahoe nomyces graminis, Magnaporthe grisea, Magnaporthe insis, Tiphula incarnate, Tiphula ishikariensis, Ustilago ave salvinii, Microdochium Oryzae, Nakataea sigmoidae, Neo nae, Ustilago hordei, Ustilago nigra, Ustilago nuda, Ustilago vOssia horrida, Pyricularia grisea, Pyricularia Oryzae, tritici, and/or Verticillium dahliae. Pythium dissotocum, Pythium spinosum, Pythium spp., 9. A method according to claim 1, wherein the crop com Rhizoctonia Oryzae, Rhizoctonia Oryzae-sativae, Rhizoctonia prises rye or triticale, and the method controls diseases caused Solani, Rhynchosporium Oryzae, Sarocladium Oryzae, Scle by Aecidium clematidis, Alternaria spp., Bipolaris Sorokini rophthora macrospore, Sclerotium Oryzae, Sclerotium rolfsii, ana, Cephalosporium gramineum et al., Ceratobasidium Sphaerulina Oryzina, Thanatephorus cucumeris, Tilletia bar cereale, Cercosporidium graminis, Cladosporium herbarum, clayana, and/or Ustilaginoidea virens. Claviceps purpurea, Cochliobolus sativus, Colletotrichum 12. A method according to claim 1, wherein the crop com graminicola, Coprinus psychromorbidus, Dilophospora prises corn, and the method controls corn/maize diseases alopecuri, Drechslera tritici-repentis, Epicoccum spp., Ery caused by Acremonium strictum, Aspergillus flavus, Botryo siphe graminis, Fusarium culmorum, Fusarium diplodia theobromae, Botryosphaeria festucae, Cephalospo graminearum, Fusarium nivale, Fusarium spp., Gaeuman rium acremonium, Cochliobolus eragrostidis, Cochliobolus nomyces graministritici, Gibberella zeae, Glomerella intermedius, Cochliobolus lunatus, Cochliobolus pallescens, graminicola, Helminthosporium sativum, Helminthosporium Cochliobolus tuberculatus, Colletotrichum graminicola, tritici-repentis, Hymenula cerealis, Leptosphaeria nodorum, Corticium Sasakii, Curvularia clavata, Curvularia eragros Leptosphaeria herpotrichoides, Microdochium nivale, tidis, Curvularia inaequalis, Curvularia intermedia, Curvu Monographella nivalis, Mycosphaerella graminicola, laria lunata, Curvularia maculans, Curvularia pallescens, Mycosphaerella tassiana, Myriosclerotinia borealis, Neo Curvularia Senegalensis, Curvularia tuberculata, Didymella VOSSia indica, Phaeosphaeria herpotrichoides, exitalis, Diplodia frumenti, Diplodia macrospora, Diplodia Phaeosphaeria nodorum, Pseudocercosporella herpotri maydis, Glomerella falcatum, Glomerella graminicola, choides, Pseudoseptoria donacis, Puccinia graminis, Puc Glomerella tucumanensis, Lasiodiplodia theobromae, Mac cinia recondita, Puccinia Striiformis, Puccinia graminisseca rophomina phaseolina, Marasmiellus sp., Physoderma may lis, Pyrenophora tritici-repentis, Pythium aphanidermatum, dis, Rhizoctonia microsclerotia, Rhizoctonia Solani, Steno Pythium arrhenomanes, Pythium debaryanum, Pythium carpella macrospora, Thanatephorus cucumeris, graminicola, Pythium ultimum, Rhizoctonia cerealis, Rhyn Thanatephorus cucumeris, or by downy mildews selected chosporium secalis, Sclerotinia borealis, Scolicotrichum from Alternaria alternata, Alternaria tenuis, Angiopsora graminis, Selenophoma donacis, Septoria nodorum, Septoria zeae, Ascochyta ischaemi, Ascochyta maydis, Ascochyta secalis, Septoriatritici, Sphacelia segetum, Sporobolomyces tritici, Ascochyta Zeicola, Aspergillus glaucus, Aspergillus spp., Stagonospora nodorum, Stemphyllium spp., Tilletia car niger; Aspergillus spp., Athelia rolfsii, Aureobasidium zeae, ies, Tilletia controversa, Tilletia foetida, Tilletia indica, Tille Bipolaris maydis, Bipolaris Sorokiniana, Bipolaris victoriae, tia laevis, Tilletia tritici, Tiphula idahoensis, Tiphula inca Bipolaris Zeicola, Botryosphaeria festucae, Botryosphaeria mata, Tiphula ishikariensis, Tiphula ishikariensis var. zeae, Botryotinia fuceliana, Botrytis cinerea, Cephalospo Canadensis, Uredo glunarum, Urocystis occulta, and/or rium maydis, Cephalotrichum Stemonitis, Cercospora sorghi, Ustilago tritici. Cercospora sorghi var. maydis, Cercospora zeae-maydis, 10. A method according to claim 1, wherein the crop com Cladosporium cladosporioides, Cladosporium herbarum, prises oats or millet, wherein the method controls diseases Claviceps gigantea, Cochliobolus carbonum, Cochliobolus caused by Bipolaris Sorokiniana, Bipolaris victoriae, Cera heterostrophus, Cochliobolus sativus, Cochliobolus victo tobasidium cereale, Claviceps purpurea, Cochliobolus Sati riae, Cunninghamella sp., Curvularia pallescens, Dictocha vus, Cochliobolus victoriae, Colletotrichum graminicola, eta fertilis, Diplodia frumenti, Diplodia macrospora, Diplo Drechslera avenacea, Drechslera avenae, Erysiphe graminis dia maydis, Diplodia zeae, Doratomyces stemonitis, avenae, Erysiphe graminis, Fusarium culmorum, Fusarium Drechslera prolata, Epicoccum nigrum, Exserohilum pedi graminearum, Fusarium nivale, Fusarium spp., Gaeuman cellatum, Exserohilum prolatum, Exserohilum rostratum, nomyces graminis var. avenae, Gaeumannomyces graminis, Exserohilum turcicum, Fusarium acuminatum, Fusarium Gibberella zeae, Glomerella graminicola, Helminthospo avenaceum, Fusarium culmorum, Fusarium episphaeria, rium avenaceum, Helminthosporium avenae, Microdochium Fusarium equiseti, Fusarium graminearum, Fusarium mer inivale, Monographella nivalis, Oidium monilioides, ismoides, Fusarium moniliforme, Fusarium moniliforme var. Phaeosphaeria avenaria, Puccinia coronata, Puccinia subglutinans, Fusarium oxysporum, Fusarium pallidoro graminis, Pyrenophora avenae, Pythium debaryanum, seum, Fusarium poae, Fusarium roseum, Fusarium Solani, Pythium irregulare, Pythium spp., Pythium ultimum, Rhizoc Fusarium subglutinans, Fusarium sulphureum, Fusarium tonia cerealis, Rhizoctonia Solani, Sclerophthora mac tricinctum, Gaeumannomyces graminis, Gibberella acumi rospora et al., Septoria avenae, Sphacelia segetum, Stagono nata, Gibberella avenacea, Gibberella cyanogena, Gibber spora avenae, Thanatephorus cucumeris, Tiphula ellafiujikuroi, Gibberella intricans, Gibberella zeae, Gloeo idahoensis, Tiphula incamata, Tiphula ishikariensis, Usti cercospora sorghi, Gonatobotry's simplex, Graphium lago avenae, Ustilago kolleri, and/or Ustilago Segetum. penicillioides, Helminthosporium carbonum, Helminthospo 11. A method according to claim 1, wherein the crop com rium maydis, Helminthosporium pedicellatum, Helminthos prises rice, and the method controls rice diseases caused by porium rostratum, Helminthosporium sativum, Helminthos Achlya conspicua, Achlya klebsiana, Acrocylindrium Oryzae, porium Sorokinianum, Helminthosporium turcicum, Alternaria padwickii, Athelia rolfsii, Ceratobasidium Oryzae Helminthosporium victoriae, Hormodendrum cladosporio sativae, Cercospora janseana, Cercospora Oryzae, ides, Hyalothyridium maydis, Hypocrea sp., Kabatiella zeae, Cochiobolus lunatus, Cochliobolus miyabeanus, Cochliobo Khuskia Oryzae, Leptosphaeria maydis, Leptothyrium zeae, lus miyabeanus, Curvularia lunata, Curvularia spp., Drech Macrophoma zeae, Macrophomina phaseolina, Mariannaea slera gigantean, Entvloma Oryzae, Fusarium spp., Gaeuman elegans, Microdochium bolleyi, Monascus purpureus, US 2014/0336231 A1 Nov. 13, 2014 20

Monascus ruber. Mucor sp., Mycosphaerella tassiana, rioides, Colletotrichum pisi, Erysiphe pisi, Fusarium Mycosphaerella zeae-maydis, Myrothecium gramineum, Oxysporum, Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. pisi, Fusarium Solani, Nectria haematococca, Nigrospora Oryzae, Ophiosphaerella Fusicladium pisicola, Glomerella Cingulata, Mycosphaerella herpotricha, Paraphaeosphaeria michotii, Penicillium pinodes, Oidium sp., Peronospora viciae, Phoma pinodella, chrysogenium, Penicillium expansium, Penicillium oxalicum, Pythium spp., Rhizoctonia Solani, Sclerotinia Sclerotiorum, Penicillium spp., Periconia circinata, Peronosclerospora Septoria pisi, Thanatephorus cucumeris, Thielaviopsis basi maydis, Peronosclerospora philippinensis, Peronoscle cola, and/or Uromyces fabae. rospora sacchari, Peronosclerospora sorghi, Peronoscle 15. A method according to claim 1, wherein the crop com rospora spontanea, Phaeocytosporella zeae, Phaeocy prises peanut, and the method controls peanut diseases caused tostroma ambiguum, Phaeosphaeria maydis, Phoma sp., by Alternaria alternata, Alternaria arachidis, Alternaria Phoma terrestris, Phomopsis sp., Phyllachora maydis, Phyl tenuissima, Ascochyta adzamethica, Aspergillus flavus, losticta maydis, Physalospora zeae, Physalospora Zeicola, Aspergillus niger; Aspergillus parasiticus, Athelia rolfsii, Physopella pallescens, Physopella zeae, Phytophthora cac Bipolaris spicifera, Botryotinia fuceliana, Botrytis cinerea, torum, Phytophthora drechsleri, Phytophthora nicotianae Calonectria Crotalariae, Calonectria keyotensis, Cercospora var. parasitica, Pithomyces maydicus, Puccinia polysora, arachidicola, Cercosporidium personatum, Chalara elegans, Puccinia sorghi, Pyrenochaeta terrestris, Pythium aphani Choanephora spp., Cochliobolus spicifer, Colletotrichum dermatum, Pythium arrhenomanes, Pythium butleri, Pythium arachidis, Colletotrichum dematium, Colletotrichum graminicola, Pythium spp., Rhizoctonia Solani, Rhizoctonia gloeosporioides, Colletotrichum mangenoti, Cristulariella zeae, Rhizoctonia zeae, Rhizopus arrhizus, Rhizopus moricola, Cylindrocladium crotalariae, Cylindrocladium microsporus, Rhizopus nigricans, Rhizopus stolonifer, Rho scoparium, Diaporthe phaseolorum, Didymosphaeria pographus zeae, Sclerophthora macrospore, Sclerophthora arachidicola, Diplodia gossypina, Drechslera spicifera, rayssiae var. zeae, Sclerospora graminicola, Sclerospora Fusarium equiseti, Fusarium oxysporum, Fusarium Scirpi, macrospore, Sclerospora maydis, Sclerospora philippinen Fusarium Solani, Fusarium spp., Gibberella intricans, Glom sis, Sclerospora sacchari, Sclerospora Sorghi, Sclerospora erella cingulata, Grovesinia pyramidalis, Lasiodiplodia spontanea, Sclerotium rolfsii, Scolecosporiella sp., Scopu theobromae, Leptosphaerulina crassiasca, Macrophomina lariopsis briumptii, Selenophoma sp., Septoria zeae, Septoria phaseolina, Mycosphaerella arachidicola, Mycosphaerella Zeicola, Septoria Zeina, Setosphaeria pedicellata, Seto arachidis, Mycosphaerella berkeleyi, Myrothecium roridum, sphaeria prolata, Setosphaeria rostrata, Setosphaeria tur Nectria haematococca, Oidium arachidis, Olpidium brassi cica, Sphacelia sp., Sphacelotheca reiliana, Sphaerulina cae, Pestalotiopsis arachidis, Phaeoisariopsis personata, maydis, Spicaria sp., Sporisorium holci-sorghi, Stenocar Phoma arachidicola, Phoma microspora, Phomopsis pella macrospore, Stenocarpella maydis, Trichoderma phaseoli, Phomopsis sojae, Phomopsis spp., Phyllosticta lignorum, Trichoderma viride, Ustilaginoidea virens, Usti arachidis-hypogaea, Phyllosticta sojicola, Phymatotrichop lago maydis, Ustilago Zeae, and/or Waitea circinata. sis omnivore, Phymatotrichum Omnivorum, Pleosphaerulina 13. A method according to claim 1, wherein the crop com Sojicola, Pleospora tarda, Puccinia arachidis, Pythium aph prises oil seed rape or canola, wherein the method controls anidermatum, Pythium debaryanum, Pythium irregulare, diseases caused by Albugo Candida, Albugo cruciferarum, Pythium myriotylum, Pythium spp., Pythium ultimum, Alternaria alternata, Alternaria brassicae, Alternaria bras Rhizoctonia bataticola, Rhizoctonia Solani, Rhizoctonia spp., Sicicola, Alternaria japonica, Alternaria raphani, Alternaria Rhizopus spp., Sclerotinia minor, Sclerotinia Sclerotiorum, spp., Aphanomyces raphani, Ascochyta spp., Asteromella Sclerotium cinnomomi, Sclerotium rolfsii, Sphaceloma brassica, Athelia rolfsii, Botryotinia fuceliana, Botrytis arachidis, Stemphyllium botryosum, Thanatephorus cucum cinerea, Cercospora brassicicola, Cercosporella brassicae, eris, Thielaviopsis basicola, Verticillium albO-atrum, and/or Cladosporium sp., Colletotrichum gloeosporioides, Colletot Verticillium dahliae. richum higginsianum, Cylindrosporium concentricum, Ery 16. A method according to claim 1, wherein the crop com siphe Cruciferarum, Erysiphe polygoni, Fusarium prises sugar beet, fodder beet or beetroot, and the method Oxysporum, Fusarium oxysporum sp. conglutinans, controls diseases caused by Alternaria brassicae, Alternaria Fusarium spp., Gliocladium roseum, Glomerella Cingulata, alternata, Aphanomyces cochlioides, Aphanomyces cochlio Leptosphaeria maculans, Macrophomina phaseolina, ides, Athelia rolfsii, Cercospora beticola, Choanephora Mycosphaerella brassicicola, Mycosphaerella capsellae, cucurbitatum, Colletotrichum dematium f. spinaciae, Cylin Nectria ochroleuca, Peronospora parasitica, Peronospora drocladium, Erysiphe betae, Erysiphe polygoni, Fusarium sp., Phoma lingam, Phymatotrichopsis omnivora, Phytoph Oxysporum f.sp. betae, Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. spinaciae, thora megasperma, Plasmodiophora brassicae, Pseudocer Fusarium spp., Helicobasidium brebissonii, Macrophomina cosporella capsellae, Pyrenopeziza brassicae, Pythium phaseolina, Peronospora farinosa f. sp. betae, Peronospora debaryanum, Pythium irregulare, Pythium spp., Rhizoctonia farinosa, Peronospora Schachtii, Phoma betae, Phymatotri Solani, Rhizopus stolonifer, Sclerotinia Sclerotiorum, Sclero chopsis omnivora, Phymatotrichum omnivorum, Physarum tium rolfsii, Thanatephorus cucumeris, Thanatephorus cinereum, Physoderma leproides, Phytophthora drechsleri, cucumeris, Urocystis brassicae, and/or Verticillium long Pleospora betae, Pleospora tarda, Puccinia submitems, isporum. Pythium aphanidermatum, Pythium deliense, Pythium 14. A method according to claim 1, wherein the crop com irregulare, Pythium spp., Ranularia beticola, Rhizoctonia prises pea, and the method controls pea diseases caused by crocorum, Rhizoctonia Solani, Rhizopus arrhizus, Rhizopus Alternaria alternata, Aphanomyces euteiches f. sp. pisi, stolonifer, Sclerotinia sclerotiorum, Sclerotium rolfsii, Stem Ascochytapinodella, Ascochytapinodes, Ascochyta pisi, Bot phylium botryosum, Thanatephorus cucumeris, Uromycesbe ryotinia ficeliana, Botrytis cinerea, Cercospora pisa-sati tae, Urophlyctis leproides, and/or Verticillium albo-atrum. vae, Chalara elegans, Cladosporium cladosporioides f. sp. 17. A method according to claim 1, wherein the crop com pisicola, Cladosporium pisicola, Colletotrichum gloeospo prises potato, and the method controls potato diseases caused US 2014/0336231 A1 Nov. 13, 2014 by Aecidium cantensis, Alternaria alternata, Alternaria Oticum, Thanatephorus cucumeris, Ulocladium atrum, Verti Solani, Alternaria tenuis, Angiosorus solani, Athelia rolfsii, cillium albo-atrum, and/or Verticillium dahliae. Botry'Otinia ficeliana, Botrytis cinerea, Cercospora concors, 18. A method according to claim 1, wherein the crop com Cercospora Solani, Cercospora Solani-tuberosi, Choane prises cotton, and the method controls cotton diseases caused phora cucurbitatum, Colletotrichum atramentarium, Colle by Alternaria alternata, Alternaria macrospora, Ascochyta totrichum Coccodes, Dematophora sp., Erysiphe cichora gossypii, Ascochyta gossypii, Aspergillus flavus, Athelia rolf cearum, Fusarium acuminatum, Fusarium avenaceum, Sii, Bipolaris spicifera, Botryosphaeria rhodina, Cercospora Fusarium crookwellense, Fusarium culmorum, Fusarium gossypina, Chalara elegans, Chalara elegans, Cochliobolus equiseti, Fusarium oxysporum, Fusarium sambucinum, spicifer; Colletotrichungossypii, Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. Fusarium Solani f. sp. eumartii, Fusarium solani var. coer vasinfectum, Fusarium spp., Glomerella gossypii, Lasio uleum, Fusarium spp., Fusarium sulphureum, Giberella puli diplodia theobromae, Leveillula taurica, Macrophomina Caris, Helminthosporium solani, Macrophomina phaseolina, phaseolina, Mycosphaerella areola, Mycosphaerella gos MyCOvellosiella concors, Phoma andigena var. andina, Sypina, Myrothecium roridum, Nematospora spp., Phoma exigua var. exigua, Phoma exigua var. foveata, Phoma Nigrospora Oryzae, Oidiopsis gossypii, Oidiopsis sicula, foveata, Phoma Solanicola f. foveata, Phytophthora crypto Phakopsora gossypii, Phoma exigua, Phymatotrichopsis gea, Phytophthora drechsleri, Phytophthora erythroseptica, Omnivora, Phytophthora spp., Puccinia cacabata, Puccinia Phytophthora infestans, Phytophthora megasperma, Phy Schedonnardi, Pythium spp., Ramularia gossypii, Rhizocto tophthora nicotianae var. parasitica, Phytophthora spp., nia Solani, Salmonia malachrae, Sclerotium rolfsii, Stemphy Pleospora herbarum, Polyscytalum pustulans, Puccinia pit lium Solani, Thanatephorus cucumeris, Thiela viopsis basi tieriana, Pythium aphanidermatum, Pythium debaryanum, cola, and/or Verticillium dahliae. Pythium deliense, Pythium spp., Pythium ultimum var. ulti 19. The method according to claim 1, wherein the weight mum, Rhizoctonia solani, Rosellinia sp., Sclerotinia sclero ratio of A:B is from 20:1 to 1:20. tiorum, Sclerotium bataticola, Sclerotium rolfsii, Septoria 20. The method according to claim 1, wherein the weight lycopersici var. malagutii, Spongospora subterranea f. sp. ratio of A: B is from 10:1 to 1:10. subterranea, Stemphylium herbarum, Synchytrium endobi ck ck ck ck ck