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Certis non-SDHI fruit fungicides let you create IPM programmes that balance efficacy with resistance management.
You’ve conventional and biorational product options for soft and top fruit that enable you to make the most of FRAC guidelines. To support this, several Certis fungicides offer a unique MoA (mode of action).
You’ll be able to tackle key fruit diseases including powdery mildew, Botrytis, apple scab and other surface pathogens.
Equally important, you can rely on the technical expertise of the Certis horticulture team to help you develop effective programmes.
Together, we’re committed to take you through to a successful harvest with top-class marketable crops.
Why Frupica
Frupica will help prevent Botrytis in your outdoor and protected strawberries. But it does more than that. It’s the only fungicide in FRAC 9 to offer moderate powdery mildew control, giving you an additional resistance management option.
You’ll find using Frupica very flexible. It’s highly IPM compatible with low impact on beneficials and no flower damage. Five-day residual activity makes application manageable close to harvest.
Mode of action
Frupica's active, mepanipyrim, is an anilinopyrimidine that works in contact with the plant. Its MoA reduces mycelium growth and sporulation of conidia.
This is achieved by preventing and disturbing the formation of haustoria and inhibiting:
Why Takumi
With an EAMU for strawberries (2055/2016), Takumi non-SDHI fungicide offers parallel powdery mildew protection to Cosine in top fruit, yet with an even shorter PHI – just three days. It’s adaptable: you’ll gain preventive or curative activity depending on pathogen pressure and the concentration used.
Takumi is crop-safe, with phytotoxic effects unlikely. The SC formulation is kind to strawberries and Takumi is proven on varieties including Buddy, Elsanta, Sweet Heart, Cambridge Favorite and Malling Centenary.
Takumi is also kind to your beneficials, helping preserve them. Its low impact makes the product highly IPM compatible.
You’ll discover that Takumi is easy to use. It’s rain-fast in one hour, stable at pH 4-7 (DT50 -288d pH9) and provides activity against further foliar diseases.
Mode of action
As with Cosine, Takumi acts on the plant and the fungus to protect against and cure powdery mildew. Penetrant and translaminar with vapour activity at higher temperatures, the multi-stage MoA helps supports resistance management.
The active, cyflufenamid, is in the amidoxime chemical group (FRAC U6) giving greater flexibility. And you can alternate or combine Takumi with products that use different modes of action, such as Karma.
Why Karma for soft fruit
Use Karma biorational fungicide to control powdery mildew and Botrytis in strawberries via its EAMU (0901/2015).
A contact eradicant, Karma is ideal for ICM systems and has just a one-day PHI. It’s based on potassium hydrogen carbonate (an approved food additive), so there are no residues or MRLs to worry about.
Mode of action
Karma enhances resistance management through multi-stage activity.
It inhibits mycelial growth and causes total collapse of spores. What’s more, it helps prevent infection by disrupting the release of hydrolytic enzymes used by fungi to infect plants.
In addition, powerful built-in surfactants promote efficacy, coverage and rain-fastness.
Mode of action
Amylo-X contains Bacillus amyloliquefaciens subsp. plantarum strain D747. This offers a unique MoA that produces anti-fungal compounds, competes with the pathogen for space and prevents spore germination. As a result, it’s ideal for alternation with other Botrytis and powdery mildew products.
Why Cosine
Cosine is the non-SDHI fungicide for early use on primary powdery mildew in apples and pears – when spores have overwintered in the buds. Effective control helps prevent disease spread and new infections in neighbouring plants.
At the same time, Cosine supports your IPM efforts with low impact on beneficials, and has a convenient 14-day PHI.
Works in two ways
You’ll discover that Cosine provides excellent curative action and lasting protection:
It acts on the plant with both penetrant and translaminar movement. Vapour phase activity ensures best results against secondary powdery mildew, usually from green cluster to July.
It acts on the fungus as a protectant and a curative.
Mode of action
Cosine is invaluable as part of your resistance management strategy. Its active substance, cyflufenamid, gives you extra application options. It’s in the amidoxime chemical group (FRAC U6) and has no known cross-resistance with any chemical classes used against powdery mildew.
You’ll benefit from multi-stage disease control. Cyflufenamid is effective against the formation of haustoria, colonisation of plant tissue, growth of mycelium and the formation of conidiospores.
Easy tank-mixing
Cosine is flexible: you can mix it with a wide range of fungicides and insecticides, including those that you see in the table. It’s the strongest non-SDHI for top fruit and can be mixed with apple scab-only products such as Delan Pro.
To aid tank-mixing, Cosine is rain-fast after just one hour and stable at pH 4-7 (DT50 -288d pH9).
Why Karma for top fruit and vines
Use Karma biorational fungicide for contact control of apple scab (Venturia inaequalis) and Botrytis cinerea in vines (EAMU 2016 1327).
Karma is ideal for ICM systems. It’s based on an approved food additive (potassium hydrogen carbonate), so there are no residues or MRLs, and just a one-day PHI.
Mode of action
Karma enhances resistance management through multi-stage activity.
It inhibits mycelial growth and causes total collapse of spores by dehydration, pH and specific bicarbonate/carbonate ion effects. What’s more, it helps prevent infection by disrupting the release of hydrolytic enzymes used by fungi to infect plants.
In addition, powerful built-in surfactants (wetters and stickers) promote efficacy, coverage and rain-fastness.
Certis fungicides are more than 'fillers' in your SDHI-based fruit programmes: they're the ideal complement. In what can be a complex set of decisions and treatments, they add valuable benefits you might not expect.
Here’s why to consider Certis fungicides in greater detail. Discover how they'll help you grow great fruit, now and in future seasons.
1. Gain effective control
Depending on your choice of fungicide, you’ll get thorough curative and preventive activity beyond your SHDIs.
Cosine, for example, treats early powdery mildew, and the late secondary form of the disease, to reduce spread and persistence in top fruit. Takumi SC, with an EAMU and crop-safe formulation for strawberries, gives multi-stage disease control. It also has strong vapour activity to optimise systemic penetration.
2. Support resistance management
Being non-SDHIs, our fungicides offer alternative MoAs – that goes without saying. However, you benefit from unique FRAC codes – such as U6 and 9 – together with biorational options, to add variety to your resistance management strategy, short- and long-term.
4. Make life easier
Application timings, water volumes, PHIs and crop-safe tank mix options. Everything’s designed to be flexible.
You’ll even find an established fungicide like Frupica SC is more adaptable than you may realise: it’s perfect for early use in 60-day strawberry varieties, with EAMUs for other crops.
And don’t forget: you’ve a selection of increasingly important biorationals to control powdery mildew, scab and Botrytis in top or soft fruit.
Get spider mites back under control with our two new IPM-friendly miticides
Accurately target and control spider mites and improve your IPM with two new complementary miticides.
Avoid damage to the marketability of your fruit crops and meet retailer protocols. Manage resistance with a balanced spider mite control programme involving two new actives in different IRAC groups.
Check out the products.
Why Nissorun®
Use Nissorun to control Two-spotted spider mite (Tetranychus urticae) in apples, pears and hops. Its active substance, hexythiazox is new to the UK and is a growth inhibitor. With effective translaminar activity, it works by inhibiting chitin synthesis during the early stages of the life-cycle.
Nissorun supports your IPM programme with excellent safety to mite predators. Moreover as part of IRAC group 10A, Nissorun has no known cross-resistance with other miticides. It therefore aids your resistance management approach to planning spider mite control.
Why Kanemite®
Kanemite is a specific miticide to control Two-spotted spider mite (Tetranychus urticae) and Fruit Tree Red spider mite (Panonychus ulmi) in apples, pears and outdoor cherries.
With active substance acequinocyl, Kanemite provides rapid knock-down via its novel mode of action classified by IRAC 20B group (a brand-new IRAC group). Kanemite's contact action inhibits ATP production within the spider mite mitochondria, effectively blocking the electron-transfer chain from binding to the Qo centre of complex III.
Thanks to the new IRAC mode of action, Kanemite is an excellent resource for resistance management. It shows no cross-resistance with existing conventional miticides, including METIs.
Application
Kanemite is active on all mite life-cycle stages, including eggs. Contact action with rapid knock-down means that Kanemite is unaffected by temperature and is rain-fast within one hour. It's ideal for tackling persistent pests across the whole life-cycle.
From the field..
Charlie from Kent-based fruit grower Chandler & Dunn explains why Kanemite is a much-needed addition to spider mite control. Spider mite damage can leave lasting effects on your apple crop - up to two years.
Certis's IPM manager Selchuk explains how to use Kanemite and the key details of this new product for spider mite control.
The Vine Growers Guide
Wine GB predicts that in 20 years, UK viticulture could be worth £1bn. A rapid growth in plantings over the past few years has put grapevines on the map as a serious UK fruit crop. Couple this with numerous English Wines consistently performing in terms of quality at European and International levels, its paints an excellent picture for the future of British Wines.
With the area of grapevines rapidly growing across the country, it is important to take a step back to assess what challenges these crops could face in producing for an ever-increasing demand. Consistent productivity is difficult to acheive with British weather systems being so variable year to year. English sparkling wine yields need to hit a long term average of 8t/ha, while only currently achieving 3t/ha.
Certis has developed a wide range of conventional and biorational crop solutions to help you develop innovative IPM strategies, vital for sustainable vine production. To read more about the full portfolio, download our Vine Growers Product Guide below.
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