Common name: imidacloprid (BSI, draft E-ISO); imidaclopride ((m) F-ISO)
IUPAC name: 1-(6-chloro-3-pyridylmethyl)-N-nitroimidazolidin-2-ylideneamine
Chemical Abstracts name: 1-[(6-chloro-3-pyridinyl)methyl]-N-nitro-2-imidazolidinimine
CAS RN: [138261-41-3]
Development codes: BAY NTN 33 893 (Bayer)
Biochemistry: Acts as an antagonist by binding to postsynaptic nicotinic receptors in the insect central nervous system.
Mode of action: Systemic insecticide with translaminar activity and with contact and stomach action. Readily taken up by the plant and further distributed acropetally, with good root-systemic action.
Uses: Control of sucking insects, including rice-, leaf- and planthoppers, aphids, thrips and whitefly. Also effective against soil insects, termites and some species of biting insects, such as rice water weevil and Colorado beetle. Has no effect on nematodes and spider mites. Used as a seed dressing, as soil treatment and as foliar treatment in different crops, e.g. rice, cotton, cereals, maize, sugar beet, potatoes, vegetables, citrus fruit, pome fruit and stone fruit. Applied at 25-100 g/ha for foliar application, and 50-175 g/100 kg seed for most seed treatments, and 350-700 g/100 kg cotton seed. Also used to controls fleas in dogs and cats.
THIRAM
Common name: thiram (BSI, E-ISO); thirame ((m) F-ISO); TMTD (USSR); thiuram (JMAF)
IUPAC name: tetramethylthiuram disulfide; bis(dimethylthiocarbamoyl) disulfide
Chemical Abstracts name: tetramethylthioperoxydicarbonic diamide
CAS RN: [137-26-8]
EEC no.: 205-286-2 Official codes ENT 987
Mode of action: Basic contact fungicide with protective action.
Uses: Protective fungicide applied to foliage to control: Botrytis spp. on grapes, soft fruit, lettuce, vegetables and ornamentals; rust on ornamentals; scab and storage diseases on apples and pears; leaf curl and Monilia on stone fruit. Used in seed treatments alone or in combination with added insecticides or fungicides to control damping-off diseases (e.g. Pythium spp.), and other diseases like Fusarium spp. of maize, cotton, cereals, legumes, vegetables and ornamentals. Also used as a bird repellent.