Propiconazole

Action:

Systemic Fungicide with Protective & Curative Action

Mode of Action:

Propiconazole is a triazole fungicide. It is an extremely effective fungicide. It offers a wide spectrum of control of many major pathogens of cereals (barley, corn, oats, rice, rye, and wheat), celery, peanuts, stone fruits, sugarcane, pineapple and grasses grown for seed. It controls many diseases caused by leaf spots, rust and powdery mildews. It does not control diseases caused by Oomycetes (e.g. Pythium, downy mildews).

Chemical group:

Triazole

Toxicological information:

Acute oral LD 50 for rats= 1517 mg/kg

Biochemistry:

Sterol demethylation (erosterol biosynthesis) inhibitor.

Uses:

Systemic foliar fungicide with board range of activity such as cereal rusts ( Puccinia graminis) , Karnal bunt (Tilletia indica), Septoria leaf blotch: (Septoria spp.); crown and root rot (Phytophtora cactorum), Fusarium rots ( Fusarium spp.), rice sheat blight (Rhizoctonia solani) and Sugarcane smut ( Ustilago scitaminea ). In rice fields use it at 1 L /ha against sheath blight.

Dosage	Disease	Product Name
1 lit per hectare	Sheath blight	Rice
1 lit per hectare	Fusarium head blight	Wheat
0.5 lit per hectare	Rust