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Web URL(s): | http://archive.lib.msu.edu/tic/tgtre/article/1994oct9.pdf Last checked: 12/20/2012 Requires: PDF Reader |
Publication Type:
| Professional |
Author(s): | Sann, Christopher |
Author Affiliation: | Field Editor, Turf Grass Trends |
Title: | Fungicides: An historic perspective |
Source: | TurfGrass TRENDS. Vol. 4 [3], No. 10, October 1994, p. 9. |
Publishing Information: | Washington, DC: TurfGrass Trends |
# of Pages: | 1 |
Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Fenarimol; Fumigants; Fungicide industry; History; Thiram; Triadimefon
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Abstract/Contents: | "The first recorded use of a seed protectant fungicide was 1761, when copper sulfate was used to control the disease of bunt in grains. The first foliar fungicide, lime sulfur, was used in 1802 to control powdery mildew on fruit trees. The first prepared fungicide is generally considered to have been Bordeaux mix (1882). The first patented, manufactured fungicide, Thiram, was developed by DuPont in 1931. In 1932, the first soil fumigant was recognized when the use of chloropicrin (tear gas) resulted in dramatically increased agricultural yields. In 1945, Dow introduced ethylene dibromide as a soil fumigant. Vapan, another soil sterilent, was introduced by Stauffer in 1954. Modern fungicides, first appeared with the introduction of chlorothlonil in 1964 by Diamond Alkali. This was followed by the release of benomyl in 1968 from DuPont and thiophanate methyl to Nippon Soda in 1969. In 1975, fenaramol [fenarimol] and triadimefon, two of the very popular sterol inhibitor fungicides were devloped, as was propiconizole in 1979. At around the same time, the two Pythium active fungicides, metalaxyl and fosetyl-al, were discovered in 1977. ICI expects to offer the first mitochondrial respiration inhibitor, a bio-rational fungicide, by the turn of the century." |
Language: | English |
References: | 0 |
| ASA/CSSA/SSSA Citation (Crop Science-Like - may be incomplete): Sann, C. 1994. Fungicides: An historic perspective. TurfGrass Trends. 4 [3](10):p. 9. |
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