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Plant health

Healthy to the core

Ecosystems are specially protected by the highly selective control of pathogens and pests, which is why Bayer CropScience continuously improves its crop protection products and attempts to achieve as exact an effect as possible. Here, seed treatments play a major role because the crop protection product is applied with special technology directly to the seed. Seed treatment protects crops from fungal diseases and insect pests when the plant is most at risk, i.e. during germination and in the early seedling stages.

With seed treatments (canola seeds) bordering areas are far less likely to come in contact with the crop protection product than with spraying.

Economic and ecological advantages

The economic and ecological advantages are obvious. Compared with spraying large areas, seed treatment means that only some 60 m2 of land comes in contact with the crop protection product rather than a total area of 10,000 m2. As a consequence, only the insect pests or pathogens that damage the plant by sucking, feeding or infestation are targeted. Useful insects that live on the plants are left unharmed.

This effect is made possible by the special mode of action of seed treatments in crop protection. The plant absorbs the active ingredient via its roots and transports it to the leaves. Here, it becomes the undoing of the pest when the insect ingests the substance with the plant juices.

Efficient, cost-effective and ecologically exact disease control

Another important aspect of seed treatments related to biodiversity is that bordering areas are far less likely to come in contact with the crop protection product than with spraying. The same is true of the organisms living in these areas.

Bayer CropScience now has more than 15 different molecules that enable efficient, cost-effective and ecologically exact disease control in most of today’s important crops.

Advanced seed treatment technology is a key success factor to exploit the genetic potential of crops and varieties to maximize the yield and benefit for the farmer and the consumer.

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[ last update: Monday, November 3, 2008 ]