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HERBICIDES

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Pyroxsulam (ISO name) is a herbicide for the control of a broad spectrum of grasses and annual dicotyledonous weeds in cereal crops. Pyroxsulam belongs to the sulfonamide herbicides.It is a pyridine sulfonamide with a triazole pyrimidine group. Penoxsulam is a similar herbicide from the same class, and is described by the same patent as pyroxsulam.[1] These herbicides inhibit the plant enzyme acetolactate synthase (ALS), which prevents the biosynthesis of essential amino acids in the plants. The effect on the grains is eliminated by adding a safener, cloquintocet-mexyl, to the formulation In Belgium, Capri (pyroxsulam) and Capri Twin (pyroxsulam+florasulam) are approved for use in winter wheat, winter rye, triticale and spelt.

Cloquintocet is a member of the class of quinolines that is quinoline which is substituted by a chloro group at position 5 and by a carboxymethoxy group at position 8.It has a role as a herbicide safener.It is an aromatic ether, a monocarboxylic acid, an organochlorine compound and a member of quinolines Cloquintocet-mexyl (ISO name) is a quinoline derivative used as a safener of herbicides.It is the 1-methylhexyl ester of cloquintocet. Cloquintocet-mexyl specifically protects cereal crops against the harmful action of herbicides that control gramineous weeds; these are, for example, pyroxsulam, clodinafop-propargyl, fenoxaprop-P-ethyl and pinoxads. The safener is sprayed in a mixture with the actual herbicide and acts as an antidote to the herbicide for the cultivated crops.