CFU: [2 X 10^8/ml]

           The fungus Ampelomyces quisqualis is a naturally occurring hyperparasite of powdery mildews. It infects and forms pycnidia (fruiting bodies) within powdery mildew hyphae, conidiophores (specialized spore-producing hyphae), and cleistothecia (the closed fruiting bodies of powdery mildews). This parasitism reduces growth and may eventually kill the mildew colony.

Formulation Availability: - Liquid

Crops: - Suitable for all crops

Advantage:-

·        Effective as Bio fungicides

·        Useful as disease control and have been reported for greenhouse and field-grown vegetable crops

·        Effective powdery mildew control.

·        Unique mode of action.

·        Can be used in organic farming and fits perfectly into any IPM program.

·        Helps to reduce the risk of development of strains resistant to conventional fungicides.

·        Active at lower temperatures than sulphur.

·        Can parasitize also overwintering cleistothecia and thus reduce the infection level the following year.

·        No phytotoxicity.

·        No pre-harvest interval and re-entry time.

·        Harmless to beneficials, safe to humans and to the environment

Target pests:-

        It has been recorded on more than 64 species in the genera Brasilomyces, Erysiphe, Leveillula, Microsphaera, Phyllactinia, Podosphaera, Sphaerotheca, and Uncinula, as well as the anamorphic genera Oï dium and Oï diopsis.

         These reports represent powdery mildews which attack 256 plant species within 172 genera in 59 families, and which occur in 28 countries around the world.