Syngenta’s New Nematicide Seed Treatment

Posted by |29 May 2013

Syngenta announced the launch of CLARIVA, a seed treatment nematicide based on the Pasteuria technology acquired in 2012. CLARIVA will be available in the U.S. for the 2014 growing season and will be combined with other leading Syngenta seed care compounds as a solution for soybeans.

Switzerland-based Syngenta said that CLARIVA consists of naturally occurring soil bacteria with a unique, direct mode of action on nematodes, which cause significant damage to all major agricultural crops.

Syngenta Chief Operating Officer, John Atkin, said, “Soybean growers in particular have long been searching for additional tools to manage the widespread cyst nematode problem, which in the U.S. alone causes more than a billion dollars of annual yield losses. CLARIVA will take nematode control to a new level and reinforce our global leadership in seed treatment innovation.”

Syngenta also stated that further registrations across major crops worldwide are planned.