Tuesday, September 23, 2008
2008 R&D 100 Winner
Devastation of crops by insects is perhaps nature’s most serious threat to the human food supply. Unchecked, these voracious feeders can quickly destroy farmers’ fields and ruin their crops. Since many economically important insects have shown a remarkable ability to gain resistance to known insecticides, the impetus to discover safe and highly potent control agents with new modes of action has never been higher. It was that impetus that has led to Rynaxypyr, active ingredient in Coragen, Prevathon, Dermacor, and Altacor Insecticides, discovered by DuPont Crop Protection, Newark, Del., an insecticide which can control a broad spectrum of insects at very low rates with extremely low mammalian toxicity due to its unique mode of action: activation of ryanodine receptors. Rynaxypyr can be used to control a wide variety of chewing and sucking insects on a broad range of crops throughout the world. It can be applied in a variety of different ways including conventional tank spraying, drip irrigation, seed treatment, and soil incorporation.
Technology
Insecticide
Developer
DuPont Crop Protection
