US to approve Syngenta's herbicide bicyclopyrone

Date:03-19-2015

The US EPA has proposed to approve Syngenta's maize herbicide, SYN-A16003 (bicyclopyrone 200 g/litre).The agency has opend the public comments until 13 April, 2015.

Bicyclopyrone is a Group 27 Herbicide. It acts in susceptible plants by inhibiting the biosynthesis of carotenoids and leading to the destruction of chlorophyll. The mode of action of bicyclopyrone is shared with several other commercial herbicide active ingredients, specifically, mesotrione, isoxaflutole, topramezone, tembotrione and pyrasulfotole. Bicyclopyrone is efficacious against select broadleaf weeds as well as proso millet (a difficult to control grassy weed).