For healthy potatoes - Bayer CropScience
For healthy potatoes - Bayer CropScience For healthy potatoes - Bayer CropScience
Contents 2 The one-stop specialist for azole fungicides 6 Confidor with Stress Shield inside 10 Phytophthora infestans: a pathogen of global importance 15 Infinito: New, ultimate protection of potatoes 16 The value of Hybrids 20 Biodiversity and Crop Protection – how the balance is maintained 24 Outlook into the future Global agricultural challenges and technology developments 28 Protected right from the beginning The importance of seed treatment The one-stop Published by: Bayer CropScience AG, Monheim / Editor: Bernhard Grupp / With contributions from: Agroconcept GmbH, K. Doughty, A. Holl (free lance journalist) / Design and Layout: Xpertise, Langenfeld / Lithography: LSD GmbH & Co. KG, Düsseldorf / Printed by: Dynevo GmbH, Leverkusen / Reproduction of contents is permissible providing Bayer is acknowledged and advised by specimen copy / Editor’s address: Bayer CropScience AG, Corporate Communications, Alfred-Nobel-Str. 50, 40789 Monheim am Rhein, Germany, FAX: 0049-2173-383454 / Website: www.bayercropscience.com Forward-Looking Statements This news release contains forward-looking statements based on current assumptions and forecasts made by Bayer CropScience AG management. Various known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors could lead to material differences between the actual future results, financial situation, development or performance of the Bayer CropScience AG or our parent company, Bayer AG, and the estimates given here. These factors include those discussed in Bayer AG's public reports filed with the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (including Bayer AG's Form 20-F). Neither Bayer AG nor Bayer CropScience AG assumes any liability whatsoever to update these forward-looking statements or to conform them to future events or developments. for azole Bayer scientists first synthesized the active ingredient tebuconazole 25 years ago. The basis for products such as Folicur ® and Raxil ® , the substance soon developed into a star in fungicide and seed treatment markets all over the world. The creation of tebuconazole further strengthened the position of Bayer CropScience as an azole expert. 2 COURIER 2/06
specialist fungicides Some people search for India and discover America. Others search for pharmaceuticals and discover fungicides for crop protection. Thus, unintended discoveries can turn out to be ground-breaking. In the late 1970s, researchers at the Bayer Pharmacology Department in Wuppertal were actually looking for new pharmaceutical azoles. Since most of the substances the research group synthesized showed more efficacy in plant protection than in human health care: their efforts culminated in the creation of a new substance named tebuconazole, first synthesized in 1981. At that time, it was not foreseeable that one day, tebuconazole would become Bayer’s bestselling fungicide. However, the commencement of Bayer’s azole competence dates back even further than 1981. The company introduced the world’s first azole fungicide in 1976: Bayleton ® . In the following years, triadimefon, the active ingredient of Bayleton regularly saved the grain harvest on millions of hectares of land. In seed treatment, the novel product Baytan ® – based on triadimenol – started to replace mercury-containing mixtures in 1980. With their azole active ingredients, Bayleton and Baytan revolutionized fungal disease control in crops. Most azoles have systemic properties: they penetrate into the plant and – depending on the active substance – are distributed over shorter or longer distances within its tissues. Thus both the treated parts, and new shoots and leaves formed after fungicide application, are protected for a long time. Furthermore, azoles have a threefold effect against fungal pathogens: protection against infection; cure during the disease incubation period; and in some cases, eradication of the disease even after symptoms have become visible. 2/06 COURIER 3
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Contents<br />
2 The one-stop specialist<br />
for azole fungicides<br />
6 Confidor with<br />
Stress Shield inside<br />
10 Phytophthora infestans:<br />
a pathogen of<br />
global importance<br />
15 Infinito: New, ultimate<br />
protection of <strong>potatoes</strong><br />
16 The value of Hybrids<br />
20 Biodiversity and Crop<br />
Protection – how the<br />
balance is maintained<br />
24 Outlook into the future<br />
Global agricultural challenges<br />
and technology developments<br />
28 Protected right from<br />
the beginning<br />
The importance of seed<br />
treatment<br />
The one-stop<br />
Published by: <strong>Bayer</strong> <strong>CropScience</strong> AG, Monheim / Editor:<br />
Bernhard Grupp / With contributions from: Agroconcept<br />
GmbH, K. Doughty, A. Holl (free lance journalist) / Design<br />
and Layout: Xpertise, Langenfeld / Lithography: LSD GmbH<br />
& Co. KG, Düsseldorf / Printed by: Dynevo GmbH,<br />
Leverkusen / Reproduction of contents is permissible providing<br />
<strong>Bayer</strong> is acknowledged and advised by specimen<br />
copy / Editor’s address: <strong>Bayer</strong> <strong>CropScience</strong> AG, Corporate<br />
Communications, Alfred-Nobel-Str. 50, 40789 Monheim<br />
am Rhein, Germany, FAX: 0049-2173-383454 / Website:<br />
www.bayercropscience.com<br />
<strong>For</strong>ward-Looking Statements<br />
This news release contains forward-looking statements<br />
based on current assumptions and forecasts made by<br />
<strong>Bayer</strong> <strong>CropScience</strong> AG management. Various known and<br />
unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors could lead<br />
to material differences between the actual future results,<br />
financial situation, development or performance of the<br />
<strong>Bayer</strong> <strong>CropScience</strong> AG or our parent company, <strong>Bayer</strong> AG,<br />
and the estimates given here. These factors include those<br />
discussed in <strong>Bayer</strong> AG's public reports filed with the Frankfurt<br />
Stock Exchange and with the U.S. Securities and<br />
Exchange Commission (including <strong>Bayer</strong> AG's <strong>For</strong>m 20-F).<br />
Neither <strong>Bayer</strong> AG nor <strong>Bayer</strong> <strong>CropScience</strong> AG assumes any<br />
liability whatsoever to update these forward-looking statements<br />
or to conform them to future events or developments.<br />
for azole<br />
<strong>Bayer</strong> scientists first synthesized the active ingredient<br />
tebuconazole 25 years ago. The basis for products<br />
such as Folicur ® and Raxil ® , the substance<br />
soon developed into a star in fungicide and seed<br />
treatment markets all over the world. The creation<br />
of tebuconazole further strengthened the position<br />
of <strong>Bayer</strong> <strong>CropScience</strong> as an azole expert.<br />
2 COURIER 2/06
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