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.
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.
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!
The IRAC US group held one of their routine meetings during the recent ESA Conference. As well as normal business and reviews of various research projects, updates were provided by the Communication, Biotech, Diamide and Neonicotinoid IRAC Subcommittees. Support and actions required to update the MSU Resistance database were also discussed.
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.
