Mar 20, 2015

Syngenta product gets trade name Orondis

The trade name for Syngenta’s newest fungicide, containing the active ingredient (a.i.)oxathiapiprolin, is Orondis.

“Orondis offers a new, highly effective approach to disease management,” Bernd Druebbisch, Syngenta’s fungicide product lead, said in a news release. “Growers will soon have an opportunity to experience the same outstanding protection against economically devastating diseases, including late blight, downy mildews and root and stem rots, as we have witnessed in field trials.”

Orondis fungicide will offer U.S. growers effective control of economically important soil and foliar diseases caused by Oomycete fungi in vegetables, potatoes and tobacco, Druebbisch said.

In addition, Orondis features a new mode of action (FRAC Group U15) with no known cross-resistance to other products. It has systemic, translaminar movement and redistribution to protect developing leaves and provides “excellent preventive fungicidal activity,” the news release stated.

Syngenta said Orondis offers rainfastness within 30 minutes of application and provides “flexible application methods and tank mix compatibility.”

The product also has “efficacy at very low a.i. rates and demonstrated crop safety, along with the ability to act as a foundation fungicide in integrated pest management (IPM) programs.”

“Compared to other fungicides, Orondis brings a paradigm shift in Oomycete disease control with 10 to 100 times lower a.i. rate and consistent efficacy,” said Paul Kuhn, fungicide technical product lead, Syngenta.

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