Application/Uses |
Systemic fungicide with protective, curative and eradicant action. Absorbed by the roots and leaves, with ready translocation in young growing tissues, but less ready translocation in older, woody tissues. Uses Control of powdery mildews in cereals, pome fruit, stone fruit, berry fruit, vines, hops, cucurbits, tomatoes, vegetables, sugar beet, mangoes, ornamentals, turf, flowers, shrubs and trees; rusts in cereals, pines, coffee, seed grasses, turf, flowers, shrubs and trees; Monilinia spp. in stone fruit; black rot of grapes; leaf blotch, leaf spot, and snow mould in cereals; pineapple disease butt rot in pineapples and sugar cane; leaf spots and flower blights in flowers, shrubs and trees; and many other diseases of turf. Application rates are in the range 0.0025-0.0125% for vegetables, pome fruit, mangoes, and grapes; in the range 125-500 g/ha for cotton, cereals, hops, coffee, and sugar beet. Phytotoxicity Ornamentals may be damaged if triadimefon is used at excessive rates. |
ECOTOXICOLOGY |
Birds Acute oral LD50 for mallard ducks >4000 mg/kg. Dietary LC50 (5 d) for mallard ducks >10 000, bobwhite quail >4640 mg/kg diet. Fish LC50 (96 h) for bluegill sunfish 11, orfe 13.8, rainbow trout 17.4 mg/l. Daphnia LC50 (48 h) 11.3 mg/l. Algae ErC50 for Scenedesmus subspicatus 1.71 mg/l. Bees LD50 (contact) >100 mg/bee. Birds Acute oral LD50 for bobwhite quail and mallard ducks >2250 mg/kg. Dietary LC50 (8 d) for bobwhite quail and mallard ducks >5620 mg/kg diet. Fish LC50 (96 h) for rainbow trout 61, bluegill sunfish 29, common carp 91, sheepshead minnow >47.5 mg/l. Daphnia LC50 (48 h) 27 mg/l. Algae EC50 (5 d) for Selenastrum capricornutum 1.21 mg/l; EC50 for Anabaena flos-aquae 231 ppb. Other aquatic spp. LC50 (96 h) for Eastern oyster >46.9, mysid shrimp >44.4 ppm. Bees Not toxic to bees; LD50 (48 h, contact) >25 mg/bee; LC50 (48 h, oral) >1000 ppm. Worms LC50 (14 d) >2208 mg/kg soil. |