Plant Information Ferns first appear in the fossil record about 360 million years ago in the middle Devonian period, but many of the current families and species did not appear until roughly 145 million years ago in the early Cretaceous, after flowering plants came to dominate many environments. Along with club mosses, spikemosses, horsetails, and […]
Category: Environmental Horticulture Program
Top Global Crop Protection Needs Identified Following Virtual Workshops
The Minor Use Foundation has announced the top ten global priority crop protection needs to focus funding and research on during 2021 and 2022. The top priorities were narrowed down following a process that started earlier this year with a list of more than 4,000 new crop protection needs from 56 countries. In September, the […]
Scale and Mealybug Efficacy – 2020
Managing scale and mealybug insects presents unique challenges. Products with contact modes of action must be applied at specific timings in order to reach the most susceptible crawler stages.
Prodiamine Crop Safety Summary – 2020
Prodiamine has been registered in the United States for many years for uses in and around ornamental plants in production nurseries and in landscapes. There have been several label
Halosulfuron Crop Safety – 2020
Since 1995 IR-4 has completed 373 trials with products containing halosulfuron (Sedgehammer, Manage) on 137 crops. The data contained in this report were
Bentazon Crop Safety – 2020
Basagran T/O has been registered for a number of years as a directed application and as an over-the-top application on limited plant species. However, growers have expressed the
F6123 Crop Safety Summary – 2020
F6123 is a new fungicide being developed by FMC for the control of powdery mildew, rusts, scab, black spot (Diplocarpon rosae), and other foliar diseases. The IR-4 Project completed 25 crop
Crop Vignette: Hosta
Plant Information Hosta is a genus of plants commonly known as hostas, plantain lilies and occasionally by the Japanese name giboshi. The genus is currently placed in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Agavoideae, and is native to northeast Asia (China, Japan, Korea and the Russian Far East). Hostas are widely cultivated as shade-tolerant foliage plants. Hybridization […]
Rhizoctonia Efficacy Summary & Literature Review – 2020
From 1999 to 2019, numerous products representing 36 active ingredients were evaluated in several greenhouse experiments as soil drench, soil incorporation, foliar or soak application,
Fusarium Literature Review & Efficacy Summary – 2020
From 2001 to 2019, numerous products representing 40 active ingredients were evaluated in greenhouse and field trials as soil drench, soil incorporation, foliar, in-furrow, drip irrigation or