Brazilian joint venture Iharabras has launched the first fungicidal seed treatment for the control of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum. It has introduced the suspension concentrate formulation, Certeza (thiophanate-methyl + fluazinam), this month for use on soybeans and kidney beans. The disease affects 2.5 million ha in Brazil across various crops and 2 million ha of soybeans alone. The product was approved for use on beans and cotton. The seed treatment guarantees good fastness, controlling various ...
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Sumitomo Chemical subsidiary Valent USA Corporation (Walnut Creek, California) is to introduce a combination insecticide/fungicide seed treatment, Inovate System, for soybeans in the US in January 2010. Inovate contains Valent’s insecticide, Nipsit Inside (clothianidin), and a custom combination of the fungicides, ipconazole and metalaxyl, in Chemtura’s Rancona Xxtra. Inovate System targets a range of seed and seedling diseases and controls a number of insect pests, Valent points out.
The Canadian company, Innovotech (Edmonton, Alberta), is conducting commercial-scale field trials of its seed treatment, Agress (oxysilver nitrate), on beans in Alberta this year. Tests conducted last year showed that Agress was as effective or superior to streptomycin against bean blight (Xanthomonas campestris pv phaseoli) on beans, peas and soybeans (Agrow No 558, p 22). Innovotech plans to launch the product in the US and Canada in 2010. A US approval decision has been scheduled for the ...
