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The Impact of Strobilurin Fungicides and Fungicide/Insecticide Combinations on Soybean Yield Components.

Richard W. Taylor and Robert Mulrooney. University of Delaware, 152 Townsend Hall, Dept. of Plant and Soil Sciences, Newark, DE 19716-2170

In the mid-Atlantic region, a guarantee was offered by commercial companies to soybean producers that encouraged the application of a strobilurin fungicide and insecticide combination at about growth stage R3 (beginning pod). A study was established at the Univ. of Delaware Research & Education Center on irrigated soybeans to evaluate the effect of six fungicide/insecticide combinations and a control treatment on soybean yields and yield components. Treatments, applied at R3, included Quadris (0.434 kg a.i. ha-1), Warrior (0.179 kg a.i. ha-1), Quadris plus Warrior (same rates), Headline (0.42 kg a.i. ha-1), Mustang Max (0.21 kg a.i. ha-1), Headline plus Mustang Max (same rates), and control. Eight replications and a randomized complete block were used. Quadris and Headline increased yields by 222 and 269 kg ha-1, respectively, while the combinations with an insecticide increased yield by 228 and 289 kg ha-1, respectively. Fungicide treatments resulted in a decrease in anthracnose pod incidence, an increase in percentage green stems at harvest, a delay in maturity, a decrease in seeds per pound, and an increase in grams per plant and number four seeded pods per plant.

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