Fungicides

Fungicides, from the Latin «fungus» — mushroom and «caedo» — I kill — chemicals to combat fungal plant diseases, as well as to treat seeds in order to free them from spores of parasitic fungi.

According to their chemical composition, fungicides can be organic and inorganic. By the nature of the action on the pathogen, they are prophylactic, or protective (they prevent plant infection or stop the development and spread of the pathogen at the site of infection before infection occurs) and therapeutic, or eradicative (they act on the mycelium, reproductive organs and overwintering stages of the pathogen, causing them death after plant infection).

The application of fungicides is possible by spraying and dusting plants and soil, dressing seeds, fumigating seeds and storage.