Syngenta has introduced Incipio, a foliar insecticide for Canadian potato and specialty crop growers built on PLINAZOLIN, a new active ingredient in mode-of-action Group 30. It will be available for the 2027 growing season.
"It works through contact and ingestion," Cheryl Trueman, Syngenta's insecticide and fungicide technical lead for potato and specialty crops, told Farms.com. "It interferes with nerve and muscle signaling. The muscles can contact but they can't relax, so insects will stop feeding."
In potatoes it controls Colorado potato beetle, potato leafhopper and European corn borer. In specialty crops it targets pests including cabbage looper, diamondback moth and several mites. In apples, Trueman said, it works on all mobile stages of European red mite and two-spotted spider mite and also has activity on eggs.
The formulation is rainfast after two hours and gives up to 14 days of residual control, and trials across Canada have shown good performance in different environments, according to the company. Trueman said it pairs well with other products such as Minecto Pro (Groups 6 and 28) to give farmers several modes of action, and that applications should follow local thresholds.
Incipio will come in cases of four 0.81-litre containers. One case treats about 80 acres of potatoes when aimed at Colorado potato beetle, or 53 acres against European corn borer, as well as 53 acres of apples or 80 acres of brassicas.
A new mode of action matters for resistance management: Colorado potato beetle is notorious for developing resistance, and rotating chemistries from different groups is the main way growers slow it. The efficacy figures are the company's.
Photo: Scott Bauer, USDA ARS / Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)
Source: Farms.com
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