Patent ID: 8017557

Claim:
A method consisting of treating plants with a benzodioxole derivative of formula I as the only active ingredient wherein R 1 , R 2 and R 3 , either the same or different, are selected from the group consisting of: hydrogen; alkyl C 2 -C 4 ; and CH 2 OR 4 where R 4 is selected from the group consisting of: hydrogen, and —(CH 2 CH 2 O) n —R 5 , in which n is an integer from 1 to 2 and R 5 is selected from the group consisting of: hydrogen, alkyl C 1 -C 4 , and benzyl, and where, when R 1 , R 2 and R 3 are all the same, they can never be hydrogen, for modulating the activity or the content of proteolytic enzymes in plants transgenic for at least one Bacillus thuringiensis toxin.