Efficacy of SOME Cucurbit Fungicides
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A.  THE FIVE FUNGICIDES IN THE SINGLE BLOCK BELOW ARE PROTECTANT MATERIALS.  FOR THESE MATERIALS,
    SPECIAL PROCEDURES USUALLY ARE NOT NEEDED AND ARE NOT LISTED ON LABELS RELATIVE TO SLOWING 
    DEVELOPMENT OF FUNGUS RESISTANCE TO THESE MATERIALS.  HOWEVER, WHEN THE DISEASE OF CONCERN 
    IS LISTED ON THE LABEL FOR ANY OF THESE FUNGICIDES, THE FUNGICIDE COULD BE A GOOD TANK-MIX 
    PARTNER TO HELP SLOW DEVELOPMENT OF RESISTANCE TO FUNGICIDES LISTED BELOW THESE FIVE MATERIALS.
    
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                                   POWDERY     DOWNY      GUMMY S.B.                   HARVEST
FUNGICIDE                GROUP     MILDEW      MILDEW     = BLACK ROT    ANTHRACNOSE   INTERVAL
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# Bravo                   M           4           2           4            4            0 day    #
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# Sulfur, micronized      M           4           -           -            -            0 day    #
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# Fixed coppers           M           1           1           1            1            1 day    #
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# Mancozeb/maneb          M           1           3           3            3            5 day    #
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# Gavel                   22 + M      1           4           2            2            5 day    #
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B.  FUNGICIDES WITHIN EACH BLOCK BELOW CONTAIN AT LEAST ONE CHEMICAL THAT IS IN THE SAME CLASS.
    WHEN MORE THAN ONE APPLICATION IS MADE, IT IS IMPORTANT TO ALTERNATE FUNGICIDES FROM DIFFERENT
    FUNGICIDE CLASSES!  THIS WILL SLOW THE DEVELOPMENT OF FUNGUS-RESISTANCE TO SPECIFIC FUNGICIDES 
    WITHIN THESE CLASSES.
                                                                                       POST-
                                   POWDERY     DOWNY      GUMMY S.B.                   HARVEST
FUNGICIDE                GROUP     MILDEW      MILDEW     = BLACK ROT    ANTHRACNOSE   INTERVAL
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$ Nova                    3           5           -           -            -             3 day   $
$ Procure                 3           5           -           -            -             3 day   $
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$ Ridomil Gold/Bravo      4 + M       2           5           3            3             0 day   $
$ Ridomil Gold/Copper     4 + M       -           2           1            0             5 day   $
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$ Amistar = Quadris       11          4           2           4            4             1 day   $
$ Cabrio                  11          3           4           4            5             0 day   $
$ Flint                   11          4           1           4            4             0 day   $
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$ Pristine                11 + 7      3           4           5            2             0 day   $
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$ Tanos                   11 + 27     -           4           -            ?             3 day   $
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$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
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$ Tanos                   11 + 27     -           4           -            ?             3 day   $
$ Curzate                 27          -           3;KB        -            -             3 day   $
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$ Acrobat                 15          -           1           -            -             0 day   $
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$ Previcur Flex           28          -           4           -            -             2 day   $
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$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
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$ Aliette                 33          -           1           -            -             12 hr   $ 
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NOTE:  NUMBERS WITHIN THE FOUR DISEASE COLUMNS ABOVE INDICATE AN EFFICIENCY RATING BASED ON 
    PUBLISHED RESULTS FROM SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENTS.  THE RATING SCALE IS FROM 1 TO 5, WITH A 
    5 INDICATING THE MOST EFFECTIVE.  
    
THESE TABLES WERE PREPARED FROM MATERIAL SUMMARIZED BY DR. GERALD HOLMES AT THE N.C. STATE UNIVERSITY.

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Dr. Alan A. MacNab, Professor, Plant Pathology
Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences
211 Buckhout Lab, University Park, PA  16802
Prepared: Aug. 24, 2005; AAM
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