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Aug12

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. Themes will include: the current status of resistance to pesticides, resistance mechanisms, population biology and modelling, applications of genomics, risk assessment and regulation, and transgenic crops. To register an interest in presenting or attending, click here.

May18

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 classification number. Copies are available from IRAC members and via the website or can be downloaded by clicking IRAC MOA Brochure