3 New Crop Protection Products Enter the Vegetable Market
May 30, 2018 Three crop protection products have been approved for new markets or are being introduced: an herbicide; a fungicide; and a biological fungicide.
Helm Agro’s Herbicides Gain California Approval
California Department of Pesticide Regulations (CDPR) has approved Helmet and Helmet SPC herbicides for select crops, including potatoes.
The herbicides are the company’s newest additions to its metolachlor herbicide portfolio. Both products target grass and small-seeded broadleaf weeds, and have a residual effect. Helms says the herbicides works well on tough-to-manage weeds, including those resistant to glyphosate, PPO and ALS herbicides.
Helmet is widely used as a pre-emergent treatment for two-pass weed control programs, and works with Roundup Ready, Clearfield and Liberty Link crops. Approved for use in potatoes and other crops, it contains 7.8 pounds of metolachlor plus Benoxacor safener per gallon.
Helmet SPC targets grass weeds and is tank-mix compatible with fluid fertilizers and a wide variety of broadleaf herbicides to expand control spectrum. Approved for potatoes and other crops, it contains 8 pounds of metolachlor (with no safener) per gallon.
Both formulations can be preplant surface-applied, preplant incorporated, pre-emergence and post-emergent.
Syngenta introduces Miravis Prime for Specialty Crops
Syngenta gained EPA registration for Adepidyn, a succinate dehydrogenase inhibitor (SDHI) fungicide. It will be sold as the Miravis product line, including Miravis Prime, the product labeled for specialty and vegetable crops, says Abbie Schindo, Media Contact for Syngenta.
Miravis Prime fungicide will be marketed for use on grapes, potatoes, cucurbits and fruiting vegetables. It will target several difficult-to-control, economically damaging diseases including Botrytis in grapes, early blight in potatoes, and gummy stem blight in vegetables, and can be applied through spray programs.
BioSafe Systems Introduces PVent Biological Fungicide
BioSafe Systems and Lallemand Plant Care says their new microbial fungicide, PVent Biological Fungicide, uses a 93% Gliocladium catenulam strain J1446 as its active ingredient. It adapts to a broad range of temperatures and humidity, both in the soil and on leaf and stem tissue.
PVent has a natural symbiotic relationship with the rhizosphere microbiome, with part of its adaptive success coming from an enzyme it produces to specifically target pathogenic fungi. This makes PVent a unique biofungicide, and it will work well for both indoor and outdoor IPM programs.
It rapidly colonizes its host environment to defend against, attack, and destroy plant pathogens. PVent can be used on field-grown crops, berries, pome and stone fruits, tree nuts, vineyards and more to control a variety of pathogens including powdery mildew, fusarium, phytophthora, and Botrytis.
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