Syngenta announced the names of three foliar-applied insecticide brands for its in-season insect management portfolio in the U.S. on April 16. Upon approval by the Environmental Protection Agency, the company anticipates the products will manage insect pests in cotton, vegetables, tree fruit crops and more.
“We’re committed to creating solutions that meet the evolving needs of growers,” Elijah Meck, Syngenta technical product lead, said in a news release. “With pests becoming more difficult to control, this active ingredient will provide growers with a new option.”
Isocycloseram, which has been approved for use in other countries, will act by contact and ingestion, providing rapid feeding cessation. Leveraging this novel active ingredient in IRAC Group 30 will also provide growers with a new resistance management option.
Upon EPA registration, foliar-applied products using Plinazolin technology will be sold under the following brand names:
- Incipio: A foliar-applied insecticide intended for use in brassica, cucurbit, leafy and fruiting vegetable crops that will provide control of a broad spectrum of pests. In vegetables, this includes diamondback moth, melonworm, pepper weevil, pickleworm, thrips and other lepidopterous pests.
- Vertento: A foliar-applied insecticide intended for use in cotton, peanuts and onions that will deliver control of various insect pests including: (in cotton) plant bugs, stink bugs and thrips; (in onions) thrips; and (in peanuts) mites and thrips.
- Zivalgo: A foliar-applied insecticide intended for use in pome and stone fruit, citrus, tree nuts and potatoes that will offer broad-spectrum insect pest control. These include: (in potatoes) Colorado potato beetle and potato leafhopper; (in tree fruit) Asian citrus psyllid, codling moth, mites, oriental fruit moth, pear psylla, plum curculio and thrips; and (in tree nuts) mites.
While the above-listed pests are proposed key targets, the proposed labels will be for a range of pests beyond those mentioned, according to the company.
Syngenta previously announced the brand names for its corn and seed treatment insecticide brands, Opello and Equento, designed to manage corn rootworm and other soil-dwelling insect pests. All five insecticide brands will contain isocycloseram, which will be marketed under the trademarked name Plinazolin technology.
