Marrone Bio Innovations, a U.S. provider of
bio-based pest management and plant health
products for the agricultural and water treatment
markets, has announced the launch of a new
formulation of its Regalia Biofungicide.
Regalia is a biofungicide for conventional and organic production that prevents and fights disease by triggering treated plants to produce disease-fighting biochemicals while enhancing plant health to optimize yield.
“MBI is trying to listen to the needs of growers and searching for ways to improve the performance and experience of our products to enable environmentally responsible and sustainable agricultural production,” said Pam Marrone, CEO of Marrone Bio Innovations.
“We have created a new and improved formulation of Regalia that provides handlers with superior mixing and dispersion in the tank, while maintaining or enhancing performance for disease control and plant health. Our new product can help to manage resistance in a wide range of conventional and organic crops.”
In 2015 field trials conducted with university and 3rd party evaluators in the northeastern U.S., the new formulation of Regalia also showed improved efficacy against the potato fire blight disease, providing growers with a valuable management tool that can be used to delay the development of resistance to antibiotics while providing enhanced control of shoot blight. This research also showed very promising spray programs when Regalia was tank mixed with copper fungicides or prohexadione-calcium, achieving control comparable to antibiotics.
Source: potatobusiness.com