April 24, 2012
Bayer CropScience introduces new rapeseed fungicidal seed treatment
Press release
Bayer CropScience plans launch of new fungicidal seed treatment solution EverGola？￠ in Canada by end 2012, after being granted the first regulatory approval worldwide for the product.
The product, with active ingredient penflufen, sets a new standard in the control of Rhizoctonia solani, the most important disease in the Canadian canola, a summer oilseed rape crop. Canola seed treated with EverGola？￠ produces a healthy, vital canola crop and accordingly provides ideal conditions for increasing the marketable yield.
"The registration of EverGola？￠ underlines our role as a leading provider of crop protection agents and seed in the oilseed rape business," said Matthias Haug, who is responsible for the global Seed Treatment business at Bayer CropScience.
Bayer CropScience is developing customer-oriented solutions on the basis of EverGola？￠/ Emestoa？￠ brand family for other economically significant crops beyond canola such as potatoes, soybeans, corn, cereals, cotton, rice and pulses. The market launches for these products are scheduled for 2012 onwards.
The active crop protection ingredient penflufen belongs to a new generation of SDH (succinate dehydrogenase) inhibitors. Products based on this innovative substance strengthen roots as well as entire plants during the delicate juvenile development phase and thus ensure consistent emergence and improved establishment in a wide spectrum of crops.
They offer farmers markedly better options for stemming the main seed- and soil-borne diseases such as Rhizoctonia-, Fusarium- and Pythium-rots as well as Helminthosporium, even at very low application volumes. According to Bayer CropScience, all products based on penflufen provide outstanding crop tolerance and help to drive yields and quality compared to existing seed treatment solutions.