MORRISVILLE, North Carolina, US -- Isagro USA, a subsidiary of Milan, Italy-based Isagro SpA, announced via press release the EPA registration of Tenet fungicide. The biorational product to be marketed exclusively in the United States by Durham, North Carolina-based SipcamAdvan.

Tenet is designed for disease protection in vegetable crops, offering growers excellent control of root and collar rot diseases, says Isagro. Developed by researchers at Isagro in Europe, Tenet fungicide was fully tested in a wide range of crops in the US to combat soil-borne root diseases, reports the company. The active microbes in Tenet consume root disease organisms, preventing crop infection while remaining biologically active on plant roots and in the soil to provide continued disease protection.

The second-generation fungicide contains two distinct natural strains of disease-killing microbes -- Trichoderma asperellum and Trichoderma gamsii –- both effective under a broad range of temperatures and humidity.

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