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Current Minor Use Registrations, Priorities and Projects for Sweet Potato

Author: Jim Chaput - Provincial Minor Use Coordinator/OMAFRA
Creation Date: 01 September 2002
Last Reviewed: 04 September 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
Sweet potatoes clomazone Command Weeds AAFC-PMC December 2005
cyhalothrin-lambda Matador, Warrior Flea beetles, potato leafhopper J. Chaput January 2007
potassium bicarbonate Storox Post Harvest Bacterial soft rot J. Chaput February 2007
Crop subgroup 1C spiromesifen Forbid 2 spotted spider mite, whiteflies Bayer March 2007
Sweet potatoes imidacloprid Admire European chafer larvae J. Chaput May 2007
Crop subgroup 1C spirotetramat Movento Aphids, whiteflies, psyllids Bayer July 2008
Crop group 1 Bacillus subtilis Serenade Sclerotinia white mold J. Chaput/ Agraquest May 2009

 

 

Priorities for Ontario

Group 1: Root & Tuber Vegetables
Entomology : Sweet Potato
Target Pest(s) Priority Ranking Potential Solutions (Active Ingredient) Potential Solutions (Product[s]) Registrant Eligibility* URMULE
 # or IR-4 Status  		Justifications**
Wireworms 1 bifenthrin Capture FMC URMUR   1 
chlorpyrifos Pyrinex Makhteshim URMULE   1 
Metarhizium anisopliae MET 52 Novozymes URMUR   1, 5
Millipedes 2           1
Grubs 3           4
Cutworm 4 chlorpyrifos Lorsban Dow Agro URMULE   1
Flea beetle 5 imidacloprid Admire Bayer URMULE   1
thiamethoxam Actara Syngenta URMULE   1
Leafhoppers 6 imidacloprid Admire Bayer URMULE   1
thiamethoxam Actara Syngenta URMULE   1
Aphids 7 cyantraniliprole Cyazypyr Dupont Cat. A   1
thiamethoxam Actara Syngenta URMULE   1
Armyworms 8 methoxyfenozide Intrepid Dow Agro URMULE 08505 1 
metaflumizone Alverde BASF URMUR   1
flubendiamide Synapse Bayer Cat. A   1

 

Group 1: Root & Tuber Vegetables
Plant pathology: Sweet Potato
Target Pest(s) Priority Ranking Potential Solutions (Active Ingredient) Potential Solutions (Product[s]) Registrant Eligibility* URMULE # or IR-4 Status  Justifications **
Rhizopus 1 pyraclostrobin + boscalid Pristine BASF URMULE 09151 1
fludioxonil Scholar Syngenta URMULE   1
PH storage diseases 2           3
Virus 3           1

 

Group 1: Root & Tuber Vegetables
Weed Priorities: Sweet Potato
Target Pest(s) Priority Ranking Potential Solutions (Active Ingredient) Potential Solutions (Product[s]) Registrant Eligibility* URMULE # or IR-4 Status  Justifications **
Pigweed 1 halosulfuron Sandea Gowan URMUR 08937 1
flumioxazin Chateau Valent URMULE 08710 1 
Weeds 2 naproamide Devrinol UPI URMULE   1
s-metolachlor Dual Magnum Syngenta URMULE 2003-1858 (residue data)
 1

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

* Eligibiliy:

  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

** 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 /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 crop tolerances
  7. New crop

Historical & Active URMULE Projects

Group 1: Root & Tuber Vegetables
Sweet Potato

Target Pest(s): Weeds
Active Ingredient: s-metolachlor
Product(s): Dual II Magnum
Company: Syngenta
Sponsor: J. Chaput
URMULE PSC Number (D.3.1): 2003-1097
URMULE Sub. Number (D.3.2): 2003-1858
Status: Submitted May, 2003; Sept. 2003, reviewer questions via telephone regarding timing and growth stage; DACO issued April 21, 2004, residue data required zone 5

Target Pest(s): Weeds
Active Ingredient: clomazone
Product(s): Command
Company: FMC
Sponsor: AAFC05-002
URMULE PSC Number (D.3.1): 2004-1851
URMULE Sub. Number (D.3.2): 2005-0193
Status: 2005 ON regional upgrade project; submitted to PMRA July 2004. DACO issued Nov. 25, 2004; residue, metabolism, storage stability and revised use pattern data required. Registered Dec. 2005.

Target Pest(s): Flea beetles, leafhoppers
Active Ingredient: cyhalothrin-lambda
Product(s): Matador, Warrior
Company: Syngenta
Sponsor: J. Chaput
URMULE PSC Number (D.3.1): 2006-0066, 2006-0089
URMULE Sub. Number (D.3.2): 2006-2869, 2006-2868
Status: Submitted Dec. 2005. Registered January 2007. Final approved labels August 2007.

Target Pest(s): Bacterial soft rot (PH)
Active Ingredient: hydrogen peroxide
Product(s): Storox
Company: Biosafe Systems
Sponsor: J. Chaput
URMULE PSC Number (D.3.1): 2006-0515
URMULE Sub. Number (D.3.2): 2006-3615
Status: Submitted Feb. 2006. D.3.2 assigned May 31, 2006. Registered February 2007. Final approved label August 2007.

Target Pest(s): Larvae of European chafer (white grubs)
Active Ingredient: imidacloprid
Product(s): Admire
Company: Bayer
Sponsor: J. Chaput
URMULE PSC Number (D.3.1): 2006-3280
URMULE Sub. Number (D.3.2): 2006-4681
Status: Submitted May 2006. D.3.2 assigned Aug. 1, 2006. Registered May 2007.

Target Pest(s): Labelled pests (CG1)
Active Ingredient: chloropicrin
Product(s): CP 100, Pic Plus
Company: Hendrix and Dail
Sponsor: J. Chaput
URMULE PSC Number (D.3.1): 2009-1868, 2009-1875
URMULE Sub. Number (D.3.2):
Status: Submitted June 2009;

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.

Related Links

 

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