Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
March 15, 2012

The Pesticide Management Regulatory Agency in Canada has granted approval for registration for DuPont™ Acapela™ fungicide. Acapela™ is a flexible fungicide with a new active ingredient that employs unique movement properties to fit the way producers farm. It controls key leaf diseases, allowing growers to achieve higher yields in cereals, corn, soybeans, and pulse crops.

"Acapela™ has unique movement properties that differentiate it from other fungicides," says Dave Kloppenburg, fungicide launch manager for DuPont. "It moves across the waxy layer of the leaf surface and systemically within leaf tissues. Acapela™provides consistent and outstanding disease control. It's a flexible fungicide that fits the way growers farm."

Acapela™ contains the new active ingredient picoxystrobin, a novel Group-11 strobilurin fungicide that provides superior protection against key leaf diseases. DuPont trials over three years have shown that Acapela™ delivers both excellent disease control as well as significant yield gains. "Acapela™ helps growers manage risk by delivering superior plant protection," says Kloppenburg. "It gives growers a new tool to protect their crops. It has impressive disease control with strong preventative and residual properties."

Acapela™ has received approval for management of an impressive list of foliar diseases.

• Acapela™ has received approval for the suppression of white mould in soybeans, giving growers a tool for both foliar diseases and white mould in one spray. White mould is a major problem for soybean growers that can devastate yields.
• In cereal crops, Acapela™protects the critical two to three upper leaves of the plant, including the flag leaf. Keeping the flag leaf healthy is critical for reaching higher yields. Acapela™protects cereal crops from major disease such as leaf rust, powdery mildew, septoria leaf blotch and tan spot.
• In pulse crops such as lentils and field peas, Acapela™will be welcomed by growers as a powerful new tool for control of major diseases such as mycosphaerella blight.

For more information about Acapela™ or any other DuPont product, contact your local crop protection retailer or DuPont representative, call 1-800-667-3925 or visit the web site cropprotection.dupont.ca.

As with all fungicides, read and follow label instructions carefully.

Website: http://www.dupont.com

Published: March 15, 2012