US PATENT SUBCLASS 504 / 116
PLANT GROWTH REGULATING COMPOSITIONS (E.G., HERBICIDES, ETC.)

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504 /   HD   PLANT PROTECTING AND REGULATING COMPOSITIONS

116PLANT GROWTH REGULATING COMPOSITIONS (E.G., HERBICIDES, ETC.) {9}
117  DF  .~> Micro-organisms or from micro-organisms (e.g., fermentates, fungi, bacteria, viruses, etc.)
118  DF  .~> Plural active ingredients {7}
150  DF  .~> Aquatic plant regulator (e.g., algicides, etc.) {7}
162  DF  .~> Abscission agent, defoliant, or desiccant {6}
174  DF  .~> Stunting or dwarfing agent {4}
184  DF  .~> Desuckering or sucker control agent {2}
187  DF  .~> Inorganic active ingredient which contains boron, silicon, phosphorus, heavy metal, or aluminum
188  DF  .~> Inorganic active ingredient is elemental nitrogen, elemental sulfur, or is a compound of nitrogen or sulfur
189  DF  .~> Organic active compound containing {19}

DEFINITION

Classification: 504/116

PLANT GROWTH REGULATING COMPOSITIONS (E.G., HERBICIDES, ETC.):

(under the class definition) Compositions not more specifically provided for elsewhere, for treating growing or living terrestrial or aquatic plants or their habitats for the purpose of stimulating, defoliating, inhibiting, retarding, or killing said plants and the processes of using such compositions or compounds, per se, for such purposes, which are not more than the mere application of the compositions or compounds to the plant or habitat.

(1) Note. The compositions of this subclass include those compositions which find utility for activating the germination of seeds, bulbs, tubers, and roots, for desuckering plants and sucker control, for affecting the color of the fruit, etc., as well as processes of using compounds, per se, for such purposes.

(2) Note. Only those compositions which alter the plant through a chemical modification of the plant metabolism such as auxins are herein included. The line between a chemical which causes a plant metabolism response and a fertilizer or plant food is somewhat difficult, but for purposes of this class the following applies: (1) compositions having only a fertilizing affect and (2) compositions which are disclosed as having both a stimulating and fertilizing action and wherein the composition taken as a whole merely exhibits its stimulating affect as a response to the fertilizing action and wherein no disclosure is made as to the specific response, except for general statements as to "stimulating and fertilizing affects," are not in this or indented subclasses, but may be found in the appropriate fertilizer subclass in Class 71, Chemistry: Fertilizers. Compositions

which include a plant stimulant as well as a fertilizer or biocide (insecticide, fungicide, etc.) are classified in this or indented subclasses.

(3) Note. Compositions which are added to prevent or cure mineral or plant food deficiencies are excluded from this and indented subclasses. For example, the addition of iron chelates to cure or prevent iron chlorosis may be found in the appropriate fertilizer subclass in Class 71, Chemistry: Fertilizers.

(4) Note. The terms "mere application" or "mere use" as employed herein include such recited process steps as dusting, spraying, injecting, drilling, wetting, spreading, etc., and combinations thereof. Limitations relating to amounts, time, or physical forms of the compositions as applied are included herein. For example, the treatment with a specific composition "at the imminence of abscission" to prevent abscission is classified with the composition.

(5) Note. In the indented subclasses the primary basis of classification is on the chemical structure of the compound employed in the claimed subject matter which is disclosed to possess a utility for this subclass.

(6) Note. For the purposes of this and related subclasses the term hetero ring denotes the presence of a ring whose members are composed of at least one carbon and one or more atoms of the elements taken from the group consisting of nitrogen, oxygen, sulfur, selenium, and tellurium. SEE OR SEARCH CLASS

47, Plant Husbandry, for processes of treating the soil and its products involving (1) some mechanical manipulation of the soil or plant over and above the application of a specific composition, or (2) which do not involve the application of a specific composition, or (3) which are more than the mere application of a specific composition to the plant or the soil.

424, Drug, Bio-Affecting and Body Treating Compositions, appropriate subclasses for processes of application of insecticides, fungicides, fumigants, disinfectants, etc., to plants or soil as well as seeds coated or impregnated with a Class 424 composition wherein the seed functions as bait material.

514, Drug, Bio-Affecting and Body Treating Compositions, appropriate subclasses for processes of application of insecticides, fungicides, fumigants, disinfectants, etc., to plants or soil as well as seeds coated or impregnated with a Class 514 composition wherein the seed functions as bait material.