The library · Fungicide
Fluxapyroxad
An SDHI used in leaf-disease premixes and seed treatments, often alongside a strobilurin.
- Group
- Fungicide Group 7
- Family
- Carboxamides
- Formula
- C18H12F5N3O
- Molar mass
- 381.3 g/mol
- You may know it as
- Nexicor, Insure
- In Canada
- Mostly branded
Structure: PubChem CID 16095400
How it kills
SDHI
Blocks energy production in the fungus at complex II of the mitochondria.
Stops spores germinating and fungi growing.
Enters the plant and travels upward with the water stream. It protects new tissue above where it landed, not below.
Where it fits
In the season.
Commonly used on
- Leaf disease
- Cereals
- Seed rots
Good to know
- Blends bring more than one group, which helps protect each active.
- Best as a preventive.
- A single-site mode of action, so stewardship matters.