Syngenta Cereals: Fungicides

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Disease Management – Importance of Flag Leaf

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Critical Wheat Growth Stages

TREAT

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Best Tilt® fungicide treatment timingBest Quilt® fungicide treatment timing

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Best Use Guidelines

● Feekes 2-5 (tillering – pseudo-stem strongly erected)

- Apply 2 oz/A Tilt for early season disease suppression and to protect the plant.

- Can be applied with herbicide.

● Feekes 9 (ligule of flag leaf is just visible)

- Apply 14 oz/A Quilt for protection against foliar diseases on the flag leaf and residual protection on the glume.

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Tilt: Key Product Attributes

● Tilt fungicide provides superior control of major foliar fungal diseases, such as Septoria, tan spot and powdery mildew, while helping crops achieve maximum yield potential and improve crop quality.

- The active ingredient of Tilt, propiconazole, is systemic.

- The site of action is inhibiting hyphal growth by stopping production of the cell membranes.

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Tilt10-year average of 3.05 bu/A increase

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Tilt: Early Help to Maximize Yield and Quality

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Quilt: Key Product Attributes

● Quilt fungicide combines the Power of Two™ proven brands, delivering complete disease protection and enhanced Plant Performance™ to allow your crop to reach its full yield potential.

- Composed of two modes of action, Quilt is a premix of top-selling strobilurin and triazole chemistries and offers preventive and curative activity against tough diseases in wheat and barley.

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Quilt: Disease Control Timing

● Broad-spectrum control of wheat and barley diseases, including rusts, tan spot, Septoria leaf blight and powdery mildew.

- Apply 14 oz/A of Quilt from flag leaf emergence to Feekes 10.5.

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Competitive Review: Powdery Mildew Control

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Competitive Review: Leaf Rust and Yield Effects

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Competitive Review: Stripe Rust Control and Yield Effects

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Competitive Review: Central and Southern Plains, Mid-States

Septoria Leaf Blotch Control

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Competitive Review: Northern Plains

Leaf Spot Control

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M. McMullen, NDSU, Fargo, N.D. 2003. Application at Feekes 10.

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Hunger,OK 2008. Non-irrigated. Powdery and leaf rust present.

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Competitive Review: Texas and Virginia, 2008

Agricumbia,TX 2008. Phipps,VA 2008.TX: Leaf rust present; VA: Powdery mildew present early, Septoria on flag and glume later.

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Competitive Review: Wisconsin, 2008

University of Wisconsin, 2008. Powdery and Septoria present.

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Quilt: Maximize Yield Potential and Quality

Central 47 trials

13.3 bu/A avg inc1.3 lb test wt inc

PNW43 trials

16.3 bu/A avg inc0.9 lb test wt inc

Mid U.S.56 trials

8.5 bu/A avg inc0.8 lb test wt inc

South39 trials

11.3 bu/A avg inc1.6 lb test wt inc

East16 trials

9.1 bu/A avg inc1.4 lb test wt inc

Southwest15 trials

22.9 bu/A avg inc

3.9 lb test wt inc

2003-2008 Wheat Trials

Northern Plains17 trials

7 bu/A avg inc0.8 lb test wt inc

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Quilt: Application Timing Effect on Wheat Yield

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Quilt: The Power of Two

Tilt 4 oz/A Quadris® 6 oz/A Quilt 14 oz/A

24.7%yield inc

25.3%yield inc

33.5%yield inc

Means calculated across trials from 2001-2008. Total of 52 direct comparisons.

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Quilt vs. Headline vs. Stratego: Effects on Yield

Stratego 10 oz/A Headline 6 oz/A Quilt 14 oz/A

25.4%yield inc

27.7%yield inc

32.2%yield inc

Means calculated across trials from 2001-2008. Total of 49 direct comparisons.

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Benefits of a Quilt Application

● Power of Two proven brands delivers enhanced Plant Performance to help boost yield and quality.

● Broad-spectrum, longer-lasting disease control.

● Systemic, preventive and curative activity against tough diseases.

● Two modes of action for built-in resistance management.

● Crop rotation flexibility.

● Activity at all stages of the fungal pathogen (spore germination, mycelial growth and sporulation).

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