Bayer CropScience and Sumitomo Chemical to jointly develop new rice fungicide

摘要

Bayer CropScience,Monheim,and Sumitomo Chemical Co.,Ltd.,Japan have signed a co-development agreement for a new compound to combat rice blast.The fungicide BYF1047 was identified by Bayer CropScience.It is effective against the Pyricularia fungus which causes rice blast,the world's most economically significant disease in rice.