GREENSBORO, NC. - The
Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) has expanded the
registration of Apron, a Ciba-
Geigy systemic fungicide seed
dressing for control of systemic
downy mildews and diseases
caused by soilbome Pythium ant}
Phytopthora, to include crops from
sugar beets to sunflowers. The
product at this time may be used
only by commercial seed treaters.
The Apron 25W formulation is
now registered for treatment of
sunflower seeds, announced Tom
McGowan, product group director
of the Ciba-Geigy Corporation’s
Agricultural Division. “Sunflower
growers now have an edge in
keeping downy mildew losses to
the minimum,” he says.
“We are just tickled pink that
Apron has been registered for
sunflowers,” says Larry
Kleingartner of the National
Sunflowers Association in
Bismarck, N.D. “The major
disease problem in the sunflower
industry is downy mildew and seed
treatment is the only method we
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have to prevent it.”
Downy mildew infects the roots
of sunflower plants during the first
week or two after planting.
“Without Apron seed treatment,
we come up with a stunted plant
that doesn’t produce anything,”
Kleingartner says.
During the 1985 growing season,
about 80 percent of all North
Dakota sunflower fields surveyed
had some downy mildew. In 16
percent of 128 fields surveyed in 11
counties, infection exceeded 10
percent, the rate at which yield
losses occur, Kleingartner says.
“The average infection in these
fields was 34 percent-which shows
there were significant yield losses.
Since North Dakota produces
about 80 percent of the nation’s
sunflower crop, these losses have a
big economic impact on the in
dustry,” he says. “But now
growers will be able to use Apron
seed treatment-an inexpensive,
effective product-to reduce these
losses.”
Apron 25W is also now registered
for Pythium damping-off in garden
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beets (including sugar u
bentgrass, fescues for turf,
sorghum and two additional grain
crops-millet and buckwheat. In
addition, a higher rate can now be
used on peas for control of
Pythium damping-off and
systemic downy mildew.
Previously, Apron 25W was
labeled for Pythium seed rot and
damping-off in cotton; Pythium
damping-off and early-season
Phytophthora control in soybeans
and forage legumes; Pythium
damping-off in grain crops;
Pythium damping-off and early
season Phytophthora in seed and
pod vegetables; Pythium dam
ping-off control on golf courses and
home lawns in ryegrass; and
Pythium damping-off control in
forage grasses.
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loss reduction of 1.9 million tons.
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year. Gulley, roadbank, and
streambank erosion add another 40
million tons annually. This brings
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1985. Fifty-nine percent, or 14,400,
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the Commonwealth.
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responsible for the protection of
the soil and water resources on the
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