	US 12,004,511 B2
	Method of controlling weeds in warm season turfgrass
John Robert James, Greensboro, NC (US); and Lukas Dant, Greensboro, NC (US)
Assigned to SYNGENTA PARTICIPATIONS AG, Basel (CH)
Filed by SYNGENTA PARTICIPATIONS AG, Basel (CH)
Filed on Aug. 15, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/887,852.
Application 17/887,852 is a continuation of application No. 16/480,060, granted, now 11,412,736, previously published as PCT/EP2018/051588, filed on Jan. 23, 2018.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/449,246, filed on Jan. 23, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2022/0386615 A1, Dec. 8, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. A01N 43/90 (2006.01); A01N 43/42 (2006.01)

CPC A01N 43/90 (2013.01) [A01N 43/42 (2013.01)]

26 Claims

1. A method of turfgrass management in a turfgrass, comprising:

spraying a weed, the turfgrass, or the locus of the turfgrass with a composition comprising pinoxaden;

wherein:

the turfgrass is a warm-season turfgrass;

the pinoxaden is present in an amount effective in controlling the weed;

the weed is selectively controlled over the warm-season turfgrass; and

the weed is selected from tropical signalgrass, tropical carpetgrass, large crabgrass, bahiagrass, torpedograss, bull Paspalum, thin Paspalum, and dallisgrass.