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Active chemical:thiobendazole

Uses: controls green mold, blue mold, and stem end rot of citrus fruits;to control Fusarium basal rot and Penicillium blue mold on ornamentals bulbs and corms; to control crown rot on bananas; to control blue mold rot, bull's eye rot and gray mold on apples and pears; to control Fusarium (dry rot) in potato storage. Control of Aspergillus, Botrytis, Ceratocystis, Cercospora, Colletotrichum, Corticium, Diaporthe, Diplodia, Fusarium, Gibberella, Gloeosporium, Oospora, Penicillium, Phome, Rhizoctonia, Sclerotinia, Septoria, Thielaviopsis, Verticillium spp., etc in asparagus, avocados, bananas, barley, beans, cabbage, celery, chicory, cherries, citrus fruit, cotton, some cucurbits, flax, mangoes, mushrooms, oats, onions, ornamentals, pawpaws, pome fruit, potatoes, rice, soya beans, strawberries, sugar beet, sweet potatoes, tobacco, tomatoes, turf, vines, and wheat. Also used for control of storage diseases of fruit and vegetables.

Mode of action: the primary mode of action against fungi is the inhibition of respiration due to a production of a lesion in the mitochondria. NADH and succinic oxidase as well as the respective cytochrome c reductases were inhibited by low concentrations of TBZ also it inhibits fungal microtubular function, resulting in nondisjunction of chromosomes at cell division.

Recommended application rate (kg ai/ha): on potatoes It is applied at the average rate of 0.123 kg ai/ha, one application per year.

Recommended application time: when the pests begin to occur or the pests are young.