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Arysta LifeScience North America, L.L.C.
Alan R. Kurtz, Ph.D.
Technical Services Manager
Horticulture East
(fluoxastrobin)
Registered Crops
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Peanuts
Potatoes
Fruiting vegetables
Leafy vegetables (petiole)
Marketed in turf as Disarm™
Future Crops
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Strawberries
Field Corn
Soybeans
Rice
(iodomethane)
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Federal label in October 2007
Currently labeled in 44 states (including FL)
Currently marketing MIDAS 98:2
Raised Bed, Flat Fume, Deep Auger Injection
Crops:
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Strawberries
Fresh Market Tomatoes
Peppers
Field Grown Ornamentals
Stone Fruit
(kasugamycin)
• Chemical class: Aminoglycoside antibiotic
• No cross-resistance to current bactericides
• No human/animal health applications
• Registration program underway for pome
fruit, fruiting vegetables, walnuts
• Section 3 submission in 2010
• Section 18 submission in Michigan in 2008
• Efficacy trials ongoing
Polyoxin-D
• Common name: Polyoxin-D Zinc Salt
• Chemical class: derived from the streptomycin
group of bacteria
• Formulation: 11.3% WDG
• Unique mode of action (Group 19)
• selective inhibitors of the synthesis of cell wall chitin
• Biopesticide, potential OMRI listing
• Registration expected later this year
• use rate may be limited
• possibility of higher rates TBD
Thank You