The library · Fungicide
Metconazole
A triazole used on fusarium head blight in cereals, alone or with prothioconazole, and in seed treatments.
- Group
- Fungicide Group 3
- Family
- Triazoles and triazolinthiones
- Formula
- C17H22ClN3O
- Molar mass
- 319.8 g/mol
- You may know it as
- Caramba, Sphaerex
- In Canada
- Some generics
Structure: PubChem CID 86210
How it kills
DMI (triazoles)
Stops fungi making sterols for their cell membranes.
Moves into the leaf and locally upward with the water stream.
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
- Fusarium head blight
- Cereals
Good to know
- Spray timing around anthesis decides FHB results.
- Prothioconazole partners are the same group, so that blend is one FRAC group.
- Rotate or combine with other FRAC groups to protect it from resistance.
Same group, same mode of action
