The agrochemical majors are set to launch an exciting new range of insecticide products at this year’s International Plant Protection Congress, at the SECC in Glasgow, October 15-18. Introduced by Bayer CropScience, BASF and DuPont, range includes broad-spectrum and selective pest control chemicals, with new modes of action, showing effectiveness against resistant strains and favourable toxicological and environmental profiles.

Two ‘New Compounds, Concepts and Uses’ sessions have been added to this year’s congress to accommodate the demand for new product launches at the event.

“Although the frequency of new product introductions may have slowed in recent years, there are emerging signs that innovation is still alive and well in the pest and disease control sector,” says Dr Colin Ruscoe, chairman of British Crop Production Council (BCPC), organiser of the congress. “Novel chemical and physical modes of action are still being discovered and commercialised, with every indication that they will meet the increasingly stringent demands for efficacy and safety.”

This year’s congress will launch a new broad-spectrum nematicide, and an Otsuka acaricide from a new chemical family, as well as a new and improved BASF rice fungicide from the strobilurin stable.

Attendees will also have the opportunity to hear a wide range of papers given on novel concepts and uses, including a GM approach to the production of sterile male insects for use in control programmes.

The XVI International Plant Protection Congress will run in association with International Association for the Plant Protection Sciences (IAPPS) and the BCPC International Congress & Exhibition.

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