Technical Papers
Resistance Management
Herbicide Mode of action groups
Insecticide Mode of action groups
Pesticides, such as Herbicides and Insecticides are grouped into families of like molecules, called a mode of action group.
When using pesticides, it is important not to over use any one particular group. Using one group only effectively selects heavily for resistance,
reducing the effectiveness of the pesticide.
The answer is to rotate chemistry used, based on these groupings. The success of the Australian cotton industry to prolong the effective life of insecticides used, is based on a co-ordinated, voluntary strategy to rotate use of groups based on dates and crop maturity.
Please visit Cotton research Centre at (http://www.csiro.au/science/PestManagement.html)
for the latest industry developed strategy.
CGS is committed to supporting resistance management.