Patent ID: 6936569

Claim:
A composition for application to cultivated plants to control weeds consisting essentially of: (a) a herbicide which is injurious to the cultivated plants selected from the group consisting of acetanilides, acetamides, acetolactate synthase inhibitors, isoxazoles, diketonitriles, triketonitriles dinitroanilines, triazines, substituted ureas, ethofumerates, isoxafen, oxodiazon, dithiopyr; (b) a safener which increases tolerance of the cultivated plants for the herbicide; and (c) repellent adjuvant which is a water soluable organic silain a water soluble organic silane for modifying surface properties of the composition so that retention of the composition on foliage of the cultivated plant is reduced, wherein the composition is applied in an aqueous solution as a spray and bounces off the plant into the soil and the composition to reduce herbicide injury to the cultivated plant by the herbicide and is effective from the soil around the plant to control the weeds.