Aug. 30, 2013
A Chinese biological company has recently received approval from Institute for the Control of Agrochemicals, Ministry of Agriculture (ICAMA) for its biopesticide
coniothyrium minitans WP. The product is registered for the sclerotinia control of rape. It is also the first registration of the product in China.
It was introduced by the company that the spores generated by coniothyrium minitans could penetrate through the outer pigmented rind intercellularly, or via existing cracks in the surface, to attack the sclerotia of the target organism (
Sclerotinia spp.) in the soil and destroy them.
Coniothyrium minitans is active in multiple crops including grape, soybean, tobacco, vegetable, fruit, and Ornamental plants.
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