Corteva Will Bring Verpixo Fungicide With Adavelt Active to U.S. Sugarbeet Market
Corteva has announced the future availability of Verpixo fungicide with Adavelt active to protect the quality and yield potential of sugarbeets. The new fungicide — with anticipated registration by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) later this year — will help provide effective control of the sugarbeet industry’s most economically damaging fungal disease: cercospora leaf spot.
Fungicides are integral to food production, and the potential loss of important crop disease protection tools impacts us all. Corteva supports Global Fungicide Resistance Action Committee (FRAC) recommendations to delay the development of fungicide resistance through strategies such as crop rotation, planting resistant varieties, and using multiple modes of action, among others. Verpixo fungicide will be the first Group 21 picolinamide fungicide in the United States, introducing a new mode of action that offers important resistance-management benefits against ascomycete diseases like cercospora leaf spot. Based on a naturally occurring compound found in soil bacteria, Verpixo fungicide controls a broad spectrum of diseases and offers flexibility in application timing.
“Cercospora leaf spot is the most economically devastating foliar disease in the sugarbeet industry today. It can significantly reduce the size of beet roots, especially during growing seasons when wet and humid weather conditions lead to increased disease pressure,” said Colleen Kent, portfolio marketing leader, Corteva. “Extensive lab and in-field testing confirm the efficacy of Verpixo fungicide with Adavelt active against this disease, and we look forward to growers adding it to their fungicide programs.”
Identified by brown circular spots on the plant’s leaves, cercospora leaf spot restricts a sugarbeet plant’s ability to recover sucrose as the plant diverts energy to regrow foliage damaged by the disease. Bringing preventive control through translaminar activity, Verpixo fungicide disrupts the fungal pathogen’s germination on both the top and the bottom of leaf surfaces.
Resistance Management
Extensive testing with Verpixo™ fungicide with Adavelt™ active shows it is tank-mix-compatible with many other commonly used crop protection products, helping growers maximize application efficiency and resistance management.
“It’s critically important for growers to help preserve existing fungicides that are facing disease resistance or potentially losing efficacy,” Kent said. “Verpixo fungicide has no known resistance to other fungicide groups, making it an ideal part of resistance management programs. Because of the flexibility, it can give sugarbeet farmers more time to manage this disease across the growing season while helping to strengthen their resistance management stewardship.”
Verpixo™ fungicide is the first solution in the Corteva Agriscience U.S. portfolio featuring Adavelt™ active. It will help growers manage diseases, mitigate resistance, and protect their sugarbeet crop investments.
To strengthen farmers’ disease control options following the registration of Verpixo, Verpixo AYR will bring another fungicide powered by Adavelt active in the near future. A convenient pre-mix of Adavelt active and ADEPIDYN® technology, Verpixo AYR will provide a powerful rotational tool designed to maximize yield and crop marketability potential by maintaining production quality across specialty and vegetable crops.
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