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Current Minor Use Registrations, Priorities and Projects for Eggplant

Author: Jim Chaput - Provincial Minor Use Coordinator/OMAFRA
Creation Date: 01 June 2002
Last Reviewed: 04 November 2009

Table of Contents

  1. Registrations Achieved
  2. Priorities for Ontario
  3. Historical & Active URMULE Projects
  4. Canadian National Minor Use Priorities
  5. Related Links

Registrations Achieved
Crop(s) Active ingredient Product Target Pest(s) Sponsor Date
Eggplant imidacloprid Admire Potato beetle J. Tolman, P. Sullivan Feb., 2003
Crop group  spinosad  Success  Lepidoptera, potato beetle  V. Brookes  Feb., 2003 
Crop group  fludioxonil Maxim (seed treatment) Fusarium, Rhizoctonia seed/seedling decay Syngenta Feb., 2003
Crop group  pyraclostrobin Cabrio Anthracnose, early and late blight BASF March, 2003
Crop group  boscalid Lance Botrytis gray mold, early blight BASF Nov., 2003
Crop group  spinosad  Entrust Lepidoptera, potato beetle  Dow Agro June 2005
Crop group spiromesifen Oberon 2 spotted mites, broad mites, whiteflies Bayer March 2007
Crop group Bacillus subtilis Serenade Alternaria early blight, Botrytis Agraquest June 2007
Crop group spinetoram Delegate Cabbage looper Dow Agro December 2007
Crop group chlorantraniliprole Coragen Potato beetle E. I. du Pont May 2008
Crop group spirotetramat Movento Aphids, psyllids, whiteflies Bayer July 2008
Crop group metalaxyl-m Apron Pythium CQH October 2009
Crop group thiamethoxam Actara Aphids AAFC-PMC October 2009

 

Priorities for Ontario

Group 8-08: Fruiting Vegetables
Entomology: Eggplant
Target Pest(s) Priority Ranking Potential Solutions (Active Ingredient) Potential Solutions (Product[s]) Registrant Eligibility* URMULE # or IR-4 Status Justifications**
Mites   1 pyridaben Nexter Gowan URMULE   1
Colorado Potato beetle 2 acetamiprid Assail Nisso URMULE   4
novaluron Rimon Makhteshim URMULE   4
thiamethoxam Actara Syngenta URMULE   4

 

Group 8-08: Fruiting Vegetables
Pathology: Eggplant
Target Pest(s) Priority Ranking Potential Solutions (Active Ingredient) Potential Solutions (Product[s]) Registrant Eligibility* URMULE # or IR-4 Status Justifications**
Phytophthora 1 dimethomorph Acrobat BASF URMULE   1
fenamidone Reason Bayer URMULE   1
famoxadone + cymoxanil Tanos Dupont URMULE   1
Verticillium 2           1

 

Group 8-08: Fruiting Vegetables
Weed Priorites : Eggplant
Target Pest(s) Priority Ranking Potential Solutions (Active Ingredient) Potential Solutions (Product[s]) Registrant Eligibility* URMULE # or IR-4 Status Justifications**
Weeds 1 thifensulfuron-methyl Pinnacle Dupont URMULE   1
metribuzin Sencor Bayer URMULE   1
Grasses 2 sethoxydim Poast Ultra BASF URMULE   1
fluazifop-butyl Venture Syngenta URMULE   1

Ontario’s minor use priorities are established annually by various services committees and minor use commodity liaison committees.

* Eligibility:

  1. URMULE = User Requested Minor Use Label Expansion; product already available in Canada on other commodities
  2. URMUR = User Requested Minor Use Registration; product not registered in Canada yet, but available for same use in USA or EU.
  3. Other = Is not eligible for either of the above
  4. Cat. A = Registrant submission
  5. Cat. B = Registrant submissions for new or amended product chemistry, new MRLs for previously assessed actives, new or amended label statements, reinstatement of registered products, extension of limited term registrations and emergency use registrations.

** Justifications:

  1. No pest control product registered to control this pest (insect, disease, weed)
  2. New introduced or invasive pest problem
  3. Old technology (organophosphate, carbamate, EBDC, etc.) replacement
  4. Resistance management tool/IPM strategy tool
  5. Reduced risk, biopesticide, pheromone or GRAS (generally regarded as safe) product
  6. Export crop with need for harmonized pest control options and MRLs/ tolerances
  7. New crop

Historical & Active URMULE Projects

Group 8-08: Fruiting Vegetables

Eggplant

Target Pest(s): Potato beetle
Active Ingredient: imidacloprid
Product(s): Admire
Company: Bayer
Sponsor: J. Tolman, P. Sullivan
URMULE PSC Number (D.3.1): 1999-0545
URMULE Sub. Number (D.3.2): 2001-0991
Status: Nov. 2001; Clarification of studies submitted, use pattern, etc. Registered Feb. 2003

Target Pest(s): Mites
Active Ingredient: bifenazate
Product(s): Acramite
Company: Chemtura
Sponsor: AAFC04-029
URMULE PSC Number (D.3.1): 2003-1809
URMULE Sub. Number (D.3.2):
Status: Submitted Sept. 2003; 2004 Project; DACO issued Dec. 11, 2003; efficacy data required and review of already submitted residue data pending. Lab analysis phase 3/08.

Target Pest(s): Aphids on GH Eggplant
Active Ingredient: pymetrozine
Product(s): Endeavor
Company: Syngenta
Sponsor: BCGGA
URMULE PSC Number (D.3.1): 2009-0218
URMULE Sub. Number (D.3.2):
Status: Submitted January 2009;

Target Pest(s): Mites, whiteflies on GH Eggplant
Active Ingredient: spiromesifen
Product(s): Forbid
Company: Bayer
Sponsor: BCGGA
URMULE PSC Number (D.3.1): 2009-0278
URMULE Sub. Number (D.3.2): 2009-1434
Status: Submitted January 2009; D.3.2 assigned May 1, 2009.

Target Pest(s): Mites on GH Eggplant
Active Ingredient: bifenazate
Product(s): Floramite
Company: Chemtura
Sponsor: BCGGA
URMULE PSC Number (D.3.1): 2009-2490
URMULE Sub. Number (D.3.2):
Status: Submitted July 2009; DACO issued Nov. 4, 2009; residue data required.

Target Pest(s): Insects, PH clean-up on GH eggplant
Active Ingredient: naled
Product(s): Dibrom
Company: UAP
Sponsor: BC Greenhouse/BCMAL
URMULE PSC Number (D.3.1): 2009-4328
URMULE Sub. Number (D.3.2):
Status: Submitted Oct. 13, 2009

Target Pest(s): Mites
Active Ingredient: acequinocyl
Product(s): Kanemite
Company: Arysta
Sponsor: AAFC10-005
URMULE PSC Number (D.3.1):
URMULE Sub. Number (D.3.2):
Status: 2010 Project;

Crop Group

Target Pest(s): Lepidoptera, potato beetle
Active Ingredient: spinosad
Product(s): Success
Company: Dow Agro
Sponsor: V. Brookes
URMULE PSC Number (D.3.1): 2002-1052
URMULE Sub. Number (D.3.2):
Status: Submitted May, 2002; registered Feb. 2003

Target Pest(s): Aphids, Tarnished plant bug, stink bug on crop group 8
Active Ingredient: thiamethoxam
Product(s): Actara
Company: Syngenta
Sponsor: AAFC08-028, AAFC08-058
URMULE PSC Number (D.3.1): 2008-0712, 2008-0718, 2008-0719, 2008-0720
URMULE Sub. Number (D.3.2): 2008-3041
Status: 2008 project; DACO issued Aug. 11, 2008; efficacy data required for TPB and stink bug. D.3.2 assigned for 2008-0718 Aug. 12, 2008. D.3.2 approval granted for aphids July 14, 2009. C.6.3 2009-2557 label for aphids approved Oct. 26, 2009.

Target Pest(s): Pythium
Active Ingredient: metalaxyl-m
Product(s): Apron (seed treatment)
Company: Syngenta
Sponsor: CQH
URMULE PSC Number (D.3.1): 2008-1602
URMULE Sub. Number (D.3.2): 2008-3661
Status: submitted end of April 2008. D.3.2 assigned Sept. 19, 2008. C.6.3 2009-2730 label approved Oct. 1, 2009.

Target Pest(s): Early blight
Active Ingredient: trifloxystrobin
Product(s): Flint
Company: Bayer
Sponsor: AAFC-PMC
URMULE PSC Number (D.3.1): 2008-1641
URMULE Sub. Number (D.3.2):
Status: submitted May 2008. WITHDRAWN.

Canadian National Minor Use Priorities

Visit the Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada website (Pesticide Risk Reduction and Minor Use Programs) or contact your provincial minor use coordinator.

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