Bayer Registers Indaziflam in US

Posted by Matt Hopkins|7 September 2010

Bayer CropScience received the first registration worldwide for its new herbicidal active ingredient Indaziflam in the United States. Indaziflam will initally be available in 2011 for professional users operating in the commercially attractive turf segment marketed under the brand name Specticle, to be followed by planned entries into the ornamental, industrial vegetation management segments and eventually in food crops.

Bayer CropScience also plans to offer do-it-yourself gardeners a range of Indaziflam based products under the Bayer Advanced brand.

“The registration in the U.S. is a very important milestone. It paves the way for a global use of Indaziflam as a new base herbicide in crops such as fruits and vines, nuts, citrus, olives and sugar cane”, said Dr. Rüdiger Scheitza, Member of the Board of Management of Bayer CropScience AG and responsible for Portfolio Management, adding that the company anticipates global annual peak sales potential of products based on Indaziflam of more than $190 million.

Indaziflam belongs to the chemical class of alkylazines. The new compound controls a broad spectrum of weeds and provides an excellent long-lasting efficacy at low application rates, according to Bayer.