US Patent Issued to Sumitomo Chemical on Sept. 30 for "Method for controlling herbicide-resistant weed" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,598, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Sumitomo Chemical Co. Ltd. (Chuo-ku, Japan).

"Method for controlling herbicide-resistant weed" was invented by Yoshinobu Jin (Kasai, Japan) and Akihiro Tomita (Chuo-ku, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method for effectively controlling specific weeds having resistance to herbicides. The method comprises applying one or more uracil compounds selected from a group consisting of a compound represented by formula (I):and a compound represented by formula (II):to a PPO inhibitor-resistant weed which has one or more mutations selected from a group consisting of Arg128Met mutation...