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Ornamentals Advisory Blog
Managing insecticide loss - the balancin...
Anyone who has experienced difficulties managing insect pests such as western flower thrips will be only too aware of the implications of our ever-diminishing armoury of...
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Operators: Reducing your exposure levels
Welcome to the first in a series of new blogs that will help to advise you in the art of improving your spray applications and ensuring every spray counts. Despite Covid-19...
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Compatibility & Mixing: Best practice ad...
We’re currently in the process of finalising plans for the launch of our new ornamentals adjuvant. I’ll be telling you more about it soon but it’s also got me thinking about...
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Performance-enhancing or just compatible...
Part of the process of finalising the formulation of a new crop protection product is to check its physical compatibility with other products. The product registration process...
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Insecticide resistance: know your modes ...
When it comes to insect pest control in particular, you can expect fewer chemical insecticides to draw from over time ( see my last blog). Managing resistance risks to prolong...
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Insecticide resistance: let groups be yo...
In my last blog I looked at why repeated use of insecticides with the same mode of action can lead to resistance evolving in pest populations. A mutation which makes a pest...
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Fungicides & their modes of action
Plant pathogens are just as likely to evolve resistance to fungicides as insect pests are to insecticides, and for the same reasons, which are outlined in my recent blog on...
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Understanding how fungicides work
Understanding how fungicides work – their mode of action – not only helps in the design of spray programmes when new diseases or resistant strains of pathogen appear, it...
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Guide to the main fungicide modes of act...
Here we outline the main elements of pathogen biology that different fungicides are designed to target. Within each broad mode-of-action category, fungicides are classified by...
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Measures for mildews
Despite their similar names they’re completely unrelated: powdery mildews are fungi while downy mildews are oomycetes, the same group of micro-organisms as those troublesome...