BASF is to launch two new biorational pesticides in Brazil as it seeks to widen its offering in the sector, the company’s marketing director for crop protection in Latin America Fabio Del Sistia told the business newspaper, Valor Economico, this month. The products include a biofungicide and a pheromone. The company is in the “investigation phase” to bring more such products onto the Brazilian market. “BASF sees IPM as the preferred pest control solution,” Mr Del Sistia told the newspaper.
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Bayer CropScience plans to launch the Bacillus firmus-based bionematicide seed treatment, Votivo, in the US in 2011. It will conduct on-farm trials with select growers and seed companies next year. Bayer acquired the B firmus technology among assets of the Israeli biopesticide company, AgroGreen, earlier this year (Agrow No 565, p 2). Votivo suppresses attacks from early season nematodes by forming a “living barrier” of bacteria around the roots of soybeans, maize and cotton, Bayer points out. ...
The US diagnostics company, EnviroLogix (Portland, Maine), has introduced a second test kit for the detection of the Bt Cry2A toxin in genetically modified insect-resistant maize. The “QuickStix Kit for Cry2A Leaf & Seed” can be used for leaf tissue and single seed samples, the company points out. It previously introduced a bulk grain kit (Agrow No 577, p 27). The kits can be used to detect the Cry2Ab2 toxin in Monsanto’s Genuity VT Triple PRO maize and in Monsanto/Dow AgroSciences’ SmartStax ...
Brazil has approved the sale of Iharabras ’ plant growth regulator, prohexadione-calcium. It is the first registration of the active ingredient in Brazil. The ai will be marketed as Vivful, but the company has yet to target a launch, it told Agrow. Viviful is for use as a foliar application on apples, cotton, potatoes and ornamentals. The national health surveillance agency, the Anvisa, recommended its approval earlier this year, subject to the submission of new teratogenic studies on rabbits ...
