Vol. 7, Issue 5 (2019)
New generation fungicides in plant disease management
Author(s): Vishal Gandhi and Rao Pankaj
Abstract: Worldwide plant pathogens cause yield losses of about 20% in the principal food and cash crops. Of the 100,000 described species of fungi in the world, approximately 20,000 produce one or more diseases in various plants. So the efficient management of plant diseases is essential in the modern agriculture. Fungicides which are the most reliable means of plant disease control at present. Fungicides are biocidal chemical compounds or biological organisms used to kill parasitic fungi or their spores. The introduction of new generation fungicides is an essential element to sustain control of major pathogen in agriculture. New generation fungicides can be discovered either within established mode of action (MoA) groups, ideally with low resistant risk (robust MoAs), or in areas with a novel MoA. Compounds having a novel MoA are of special interest, as they play a key role in resistance management strategies. Over the past few years, however, several truly novel compounds have been launched commercially and have reached an advanced stage of development, which include phenylpyrroles, anilinopyrimidines, strobilurin analogues etc with effects on respiration, cell membrane components, protein synthesis, signal transduction and cell mitosis. Many plant diseases which were not managed satisfactorily by the earlier traditional fungicides, can now be well controlled by the new generation which are mostly systemic in nature.
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Vishal Gandhi, Rao Pankaj. New generation fungicides in plant disease management. Int J Chem Stud 2019;7(5):3319-3323.
