Patent ID: 6855667

Claim:
A method of protecting a plant from unintentional phytotoxic injury from application of a herbicidally-effective amount of a herbicidal compound to the locus of said plant, which method comprises applying to said locus an effective amount of one or more safening compounds having formula (I): wherein T and T 1 are independently selected from the group of hydrogen, alkyl, haloalkyl, alkoxyalkyl, alkenyl, and alkynyl; U is O or S, and; V, W, X, Y, and Z are independently selected from the group of hydrogen, halogen, alkyl, haloalkyl, and alkoxy; and, wherein said herbicidal compound is a 3-isoxazolidinone having formula (II): wherein: R 1 and R 2 are independently selected from C 1 -C 4 alkyl; R 3 is hydrogen, halogen, phenylamino, or —OR 4 in which R 4 is hydrogen, lower alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, alkoxyalkyl up to 6 carbons, phenylmethyl, C 2 -C 4 acyl, haloacyl, phenylacyl, alkylcarbonylamino, or phenylcarbonylamino; X is hydrogen, lower alkyl, or halogen; Y is halogen, cyano, C 1 -C 4 alkoxy, or 4,5-methylenedioxy, and; n is 0, 1, or 2.