Potato occupies one of the main places in agriculture. This is an important industrial and technical culture. But difficulties in its cultivation are guarding farmers at every step. It is necessary to provide the plant with ideal conditions for the development of its potential, resistance to stress, and, consequently, to increase productivity and profit. The Bayer company brings to your attention a unique product, an insecticide and
fungicide with an anti-stress effect for treating potato tubers - Prestige.
Key product advantages
The ideal option for protecting potatoes from pests and diseases is two solutions in one product. Prestige stain remover perfectly copes with a wide range of sucking and biting insects, including ground insects. These include homoptera, beetles (Coleoptera), thrips (Thysanoptera), lepidoptera (Lepidoptera). And the fungicidal effect of the drug helps to protect the plant from rhizoctonia and common scab.
This approach provides a significant reduction in labor costs for crop cultivation - two types of protection are combined in one use. No less significant is the colossal protective period of Prestige against pests - from 40 to 60 days, and disease control is carried out throughout the growing season. And the III class of toxicity guarantees the safety of using the drug and the high quality of the harvest.
In addition, Prestige stain remover perfectly helps the plant to fight stress. A similar anti-stress effect is manifested in the ability to reveal the potential of culture. The resistance of the plant to the negative influence of the environment increases significantly. The effect of "power from within" is observed in the high germination rate of the culture, in the excellent shoot formation and the density of standing stems on the field, enhanced photosynthetic process. The result of this is obtaining a high-quality harvest of a commercial type.
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Mechanism of action
Protravitel Prestige contains two active ingredients - imidacloprid and pencicuron. The first one works against pests, disrupting the process of nerve impulse transmission, the second one protects against fungal diseases. Pencicuron, after penetrating the cuticle of the culture, blocks the germination of mycelium (mycelium). The substance is capable of restraining the biosynthesis of special compounds (sterols) and fatty acids within the pathogen.
Imidaclopyrid is a sharp systemic contact
insecticide. The ability to move around the plant acropetally as it grows provides protection of the aerial part, and the unique property of creating a screen around the root system in the soil provides control from soil-dwelling insects.
The anti-stress effect of Prestige is possible thanks to a special property of imidacloprid, and more precisely to the product of its metabolism - chloronicotinic acid (6-CNA). It is able to include the mechanism of accumulation of salicylic acid (SC) in the plant itself, which provides positive physiological changes in the culture.
For processing in agricultural farms, 10-20 liters of working fluid are used for 1 ton of seed potatoes, for private farms, 100 kg of potatoes are processed with 1 liter of solution. Processing is carried out once, before planting or during it in the case of mass production and before planting in the LPH. For use on seedling vegetables from the table, the root system of plants is soaked for 6-8 hours before planting in the ground.
When using Prestige on potatoes, it is optimal to use a special technique designed for processing the tubers of the crop immediately before planting. It is necessary to control the pickling process - do not allow friction of the potatoes, damage to their integrity. It is also necessary to ensure that tubers are planted no older than one year.