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  • Register interest now for the Resistance 2011 Conference, taking place September 5-7, 2011 at Rothamsted Research,UK

    This major international conference, the sixth in an ongoing series, will review new research on the origins, nature, development and prevention of resistance to insecticides, fungicides and herbicides. It will provide a forum for researchers, consultants, regulators and industrialists to present and discuss approaches to overcoming this continuing and important constraint to effective crop protection.

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  • New poster describing IRM recomendations for Tuta Absoluta

    The Tomato Leafminer Tuta absoluta is a pest of great economic importance with high reproduction capabilities and short generation life cycle which makes it at risk of developing resistance. The pest has spread from L. America, where there is already resistance to a range of MOA groups, to Europe, the Middle East and N. Africa. Using

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  • New “mini” IRAC Classification brochure now available

    IRAC International has just designed and printed a new pocket-sized guide to MOA classification. It includes an introduction to the importance of MOA for resistance management, a list of MOA groups in numerical order with corresponding  active ingredients, pest specific lists of MOA by target site and an alphabetical list of active ingredients along with their MOA

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  • MOA Classification Poster now available in Spanish, Chinese and Portuguese

    The popular poster showing MOA classification by group and chemical structure has now been translated into Spanish, Chinese and Portuguese. Further translations are planed in the future. To view or download the files click on the appropriate link: English, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese. Full information on the scheme can be found in the IRAC MOA Classification document.

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  • IRAC International holds its 45th Meeting

    IRAC International held their 45th meeting in the CropLife America offices in Washington DC on April 26-29th 2010. The meeting was attended by around 35 particpants and  consisted of a mixture of concurrent IRAC working group meetings and reviews, a meeting of the Executive Committee, IRAC US and an International Session which included discussions and presentations

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  • New Aphid Test Method from IRAC

    IRAC Test Method (No. 019) for aphids has just been finalised, approved and posted in the Methods Team area of the IRAC website. The method is suitable for monitoring resistance in a number of different aphid species and product classes, the details of which along with a method description are outlined in the Test Method document.

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  • IRAC Lepidoptera WG to develop new posters on Tuta absoluta and Plutella xylostella

    At the recent first conference call of the new IRAC Lepidoptera WG it was agreed that the first priority was to investigate the resistance of the tomato leafminer Tuta absoluta and the diamond  back moth Plutella xylostella. Initial actions identified were to develop educational posters on both these pests outlining the resistance status, mechanisms and chemistry involved. The objective

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  • IRAC to give presentation at Barcelona Conference in May

    The IRAC Chairman, Ralf Nauen and one of the Vice-Chairs, Russell Slater have been asked to present at the Inaugural Conference on Research and Development for Crop Protection Products in Barcelona on May 18th and19th, 2010. This will be an opportunity to raise awareness of IRAC and the importance of insecticide resistance management and possibly

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