Middlebury, Connecticut
September 12, 2008
Chemtura has received registration from the US EPA for
Enhance® AW, an innovative new seed treatment for cereals and
several other crops, including soybean and dry bean. This novel
dry seed amendment offers broad-spectrum preventive seed and
seedling disease protection against seedborne fungi and seedling
damping off, as well as early season protection against insects,
including aphid and wireworm.
“By combining the proven protection of Vitavax® with
Imidacloprid, Enhance AW broadens its performance beyond common
seed/seedling diseases of wheat, like Fusarium, Rhizoctonia,
common bunt and loose smut, to include several troublesome wheat
insects like wireworm and several kinds of aphids,” says Mike
McFatrich, North American Business Lead for Seed Enhancements.
McFatrich goes on to add, “This is the only dry wheat seed
treatment product that combines early season disease protection
with insect protection, giving growers the flexibility of
matching their pest protection to their planting intentions.”
Enhance AW utilizes an innovative formulation that optimizes
seed adhesion to complement the inherent product performance.
And by linking disease and insect protection in a simple
easy-to-use product, the grower can maximize the yield potential
of the wheat variety selected for planting. In greenhouse
studies designed to measure the impact of wireworm on plant
emergence, Enhance AW had improved, higher-emerged plant counts
when compared to current traditional insect/fungicide seed
treatment standards.
Enhance AW is a convenient-to-use seed amendment that allows the
grower to match early season plant protection to planting
intentions. With Enhance AW growers can now obtain the disease
protection they want with the addition of the aphid and wireworm
protection they need to capture better yields.
Simple is smart and Enhance AW is both.
Chemtura Corporation, with 2007 sales of $3.7 billion, is a
global manufacturer and marketer of polymer additives,
performance specialties, consumer products and crop protection
products. Additional information about Chemtura is available at
www.chemtura.com.
For more information please go to
www.tracechemicals.com
or for specific information please submit your question to
tracechemicalsinfo@chemtura.com
Enhance and Vitavax are registered trademarks of Chemtura
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