Guidelines for Efficacy Evaluation now over 150
With the next set of EPPO guidelines for efficacy evaluation of plant protection products, 152 will have been published.
They cover:
fungicides 50
insecticides 60
herbicides 31
growth regulators 4
rodentlcldes 3
side-effects 2
general 2
Total 152
The next set, to appear in Bulletin OEPP/EPPO Bulletin 20(3), will include, besides some revised guidelines; the first of growth regulator guidelines (desiccants used for potato, reduction of lodging in cereals, reduction of lodging in paddly rice, retardation of growth in grass), guidelines for Phytophthora fragariae, soil treatments against Pythium spp. Aphis gossypii on cotton and Spodoptera exigua on cotton. It also includes the second guideline on evaluation of side-effects on beneficial arthropods (Phytoselulus persimilis) and a major general guideline on design and analysis of efficacy evaluation trials.
Sources
EPPO Secretariat.