{"id":44645,"date":"2026-05-14T08:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T08:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/44645\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T08:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T08:30:07","slug":"ont-companys-new-fungicide-tech-promises-more-rainfastness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/44645\/","title":{"rendered":"Ont. company’s new fungicide tech promises more rainfastness"},"content":{"rendered":"

Farmers can now pick up some nanotech to help protect wheat, corn and soy crops against certain diseases.<\/p>\n

Phobos FC 360 \u2013 a Group 3 prothioconazole-based fungicide labelled for use in winter wheat, corn, soy and various other crops \u2014 contains tiny, water-based polymers that coat the chemical molecule, allowing it to better cling to leaves rather than wash off in the rain.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt makes the chemical very tank-mixable, very stable,\u201d says Wade Clarke, national development manager for Vive Crop Protection in Canada.<\/p>\n

WHY IT MATTERS: A more rain-resistant foliar fungicide<\/a> could reduce waste of crop protection product and extend producers\u2019 treatment options.<\/p>\n

Phobos FC 360 was approved in March for use in Canada. Vive, a Mississauga-based company, was able to get the product approved in the U.S. a couple of years ago.<\/p>\n

In winter and spring wheat, the product is registered for control of tan spot, speckled leaf blotch and leaf rust and, when applied once at a higher rate, control of glume blotch and suppression of fusarium head blight.<\/p>\n

In corn, Phobos is registered for control of rusts, eyespot and northern blight and, at a higher rate, conrol of grey leaf spot and suppression of fusarium and gibberella ear rots and of certain stalk rots. In soybeans, it can be used for control of Asian soybean rust or frogeye leaf spot.<\/p>\n

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The rainfastness in Phobos comes from the company\u2019s Allosperse Delivery Technology.<\/p>\n

How it works<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you can picture a spray concentration in a tank that gets sprayed across the field, there\u2019s lots of little water droplets that land on the plant. If you get a rain after spraying, that (foliar fungicide) is not dry on-leaf \u2014 it can wash off.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe polymer technology that Vive has \u2026 (causes it to) stick to the plant a lot better. And so when the active ingredient is stuck to the plant and dries fast, it\u2019s less apt to wash off.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Phobos FC 360 is labelled for use in winter and spring wheat, soybeans, corn and various other crops.
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This isn\u2019t the first time Vive has waded into the nascent nanotechnology arena. Azteroid FC<\/a> fungicide, also registered for Canadian use, also contains the Allosperse tech. Seven products registered in the U.S. carry the same nanotechnology, Clarke adds.<\/p>\n

Phobos\u2019s use of prothioconazole as its active ingredient adds to the product\u2019s appeal, he says.<\/p>\n

\u201cProthioconazole is a fairly widely used active ingredient in Canadian agriculture as it is, and so farmers and retailers are quite comfortable selling it (and) using it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Will farmers trust nanotech?<\/p>\n

Some may wonder if farmers are prepared to welcome such a science fiction-adjacent concept as nanotechnology into their growing programs. Clarke doesn\u2019t consider this a major roadblock.<\/p>\n

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Wade Clarke, national development manager for Vive Crop Protection in Canada, says the company\u2019s Phobos FC 360 foliar fungicide uses nanotechnology to keep the product on plant leaves.capture\/ Jeff Melchior
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\u201cI think they\u2019re excited with the opportunity to have a new technology come to the market. Anything that will make their traditional operations more effective, they\u2019re definitely interested in hearing about (and) definitely interested in trying it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trials conducted by Vive in Ontario, Manitoba and Saskatchewan appear to demonstrate the fungicide\u2019s efficacy. In canola, in which Phobos reportedly showed \u201cconsistent control\u201d of sclerotinia stem rot across Manitoba. The fungicide also appeared to boost yield and reduce deoxynivalenol (DON) in spring wheat.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think our technology has a great fit across multiple operations, and so we\u2019re excited to work with our retail partners and our growers and compete in the marketplace with this product. \u201cIt\u2019s going to be a lot of fun and we\u2019re very excited about it,\u201d Clarke says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Farmers can now pick up some nanotech to help protect wheat, corn and soy crops against certain diseases.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44646,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[19830,19831,19832,91,19833,94,18873,19834,19835,19836,19837],"class_list":["post-44645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mississauga","tag-corn","tag-crop-diseases","tag-fungicide","tag-mississauga","tag-nanotechnology","tag-ontario","tag-pulses","tag-rainfall","tag-soybeans","tag-vive-crop-protection","tag-winter-cereals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}