IRAC International held their 46th meeting in the CropLife International offices in Brussels on 28th – 31st March 2011. This was our biggest ever meeting with 46 participants, including visitors from the European resistance action groups as well as IRAC representatives from around the world. The meeting consisted of a mixture of concurrent IRAC working group sessions, a meeting of the Executive Committee and an International review day. There was an excellent exchange of information with around 40 presentations made during the course of the 4 days. The existing elected officers, including Ralf Nauen as the IRAC Chairman were unanimously re-elected for a further year.
Aphid monitoring surveys in peach orchards conducted by Syngenta Crop Protection and Bayer CropScience have revealed that some populations of the green peach aphid (Myzus persicae) in Southern France and Northern Spain have developed high levels of resistance to neonicotinoid insecticides.
For further details and recommendations on resistance management in the affected areas please refer to the recent IRAC eConnection article published on the website
This major international conference, the sixth in an ongoing series, will review new research on the origins, nature, development and prevention of resistance to insecticides, fungicides and herbicides. It will provide a forum for researchers, consultants, regulators and industrialists to present and discuss approaches to overcoming this continuing and important constraint to effective crop protection. Themes will include: the current status of resistance to pesticides, resistance mechanisms, population biology and modelling, applications of genomics, risk assessment and regulation, and transgenic crops. To register an interest in presenting or attending, click here.
The Tomato Leafminer Tuta absoluta is a pest of great economic importance with high reproduction capabilities and short generation life cycle which makes it at risk of developing resistance. The pest has spread from L. America, where there is already resistance to a range of MOA groups, to Europe, the Middle East and N. Africa. Using the Tuta absoluta poster IRAC is taking pro-active steps to advise on key management strategies to evaluate and reduce the spread of resistance.
IRAC International has just designed and printed a new pocket-sized guide to MOA classification. It includes an introduction to the importance of MOA for resistance management, a list of MOA groups in numerical order with corresponding active ingredients, pest specific lists of MOA by target site and an alphabetical list of active ingredients along with their MOA classification number. Copies are available from IRAC members and via the website or can be downloaded by clicking IRAC MOA Brochure
IRAC International held their 45th meeting in the CropLife America offices in Washington DC on April 26-29th 2010. The meeting was attended by around 35 particpants and consisted of a mixture of concurrent IRAC working group meetings and reviews, a meeting of the Executive Committee, IRAC US and an International Session which included discussions and presentations from invited guests including EPA, EPPO, CropLife international and the NAICC Consultant Association. There was an excellent exchange of information with around 40 presentations made during the course of the 4 days.
The next IRAC International Spring Meeting will be hosted by CropLife America in their offices in Washington DC. Plans for the meeting and agenda are being developed by the Executive Committee. IRAC members please mark the dates in your diaries!
After 2 years as Vice-Chair and 3 years as Chairman, José-Ramón Soler (Sipcam) is stepping down as Chairman of IRAC Spain although he is remaining as an important member of the group taking up the role of Coordinator for the Communication and MoA WGs. María Torné (Dow Agrosciences), the current Vice-Chair becomes the new Chairman, with Pedro Fuchs (Kenogard) taking over as Vice-Chair and Treasurer. Thanks go to José-Ramón for his excellent work and commitment to IRAC over the last few years
2000 copies of this latest version of the poster have now been printed and are available for distribution.
Copies have been sent to the IRAC Executive members for further distribution to other team members.
To view or download the file click here.
