The 2019 IRAC International Spring meeting was held at the Double Tree Suites by Hilton at Disney Springs, Orlando, March 26-28th. There were 12 sessions organised over the 3-days which were well attended by the 27 meeting participants. Day-1 was spent reviewing the work of the various international working groups and country teams during the
In a situation in which running real-world experiments is impractical (or even impossible), computer simulations offer a powerful solution to understand complex problems. This is exactly the case of resistance-evolution prediction: Although fast from an evolutionary perspective, the time and spatial scales involved in this process are simply too large to be dealt with experimentally.
On the 4th and 5th of February a meeting of IRAC India was held in Delhi. In addition to the members of the IRAC India team there was active participation from IRAC International, IRAC Asia and Croplife India. The goals of the workshop were to establish working priorities for IRAC India in both the short
IRAC have just published the latest version of the MoA Classification, now incorporating bio-insecticides. In addition the English version of the MoA Poster with the chemical structures and the small MoA Booklet have also been updated printed copies are now available.
Publicada nueva versión del Folleto de Clasificación del modo de acción de insecticidas y acaricidas de IRAC España.
The new poster from the IRAC Sucking Pest WG are titled “IRM for sustainable whitefly control with special reference to Bemisia tabaci” and “Major mechanisms of insecticide resistance in green peach aphid, Myzus persicae Sulzer”. These can be viewed via the the individual website Pest Pages, the Sucking Pest WG Team Page or the pdf files
Following a first registration in Australia, afidopyropen from BASF has been added to the IRAC MoA Classification Scheme as Group 9D. Previously it was included in the Appendix awaiting registration. The product is intended for the control of green peach aphid (Myzus persicae), cabbage aphid (Brevicoryne brassicae), currant lettuce aphid (Nasonovia ribisnigri) and cotton/melon aphid
The initial objectives of the team will be to investigate the resistance risk of nematicides and to develop a mode of action classification scheme similar to that available for insecticides and acaricides. Information will be posted on the website under Nematode Team.
The IRAC video explaining the importance of mode of action as the basis for effective and sustainable resistance management is now available in Spanish, Portuguese and Chinese
La versión en Inglés del Video de Manejo de Resistencia a Insecticidas del IRAC ha resultado ser tan popular que lo hemos traducido a otros 6 idiomas. Estos son chino Mandarín, Japonés, Latinoamericano Español y Portugués, Francés e Hindi.