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Syngenta launches Syntinel™ RustTracker on the
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Internet-based system offers soybean rust tracking and weather
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Greensboro, North Carolina
April 21, 2005
Syngenta
Crop Protection today launched its Syntinel(TM)
RustTracker system, an early-warning Web-based system that
provides growers with tools to obtain information regarding
outbreaks of Asian soybean rust and assess their potential
for risk associated with the disease.
The Syntinel
RustTracker uses Geographical Information System (GIS)
mapping technology in combination with information from
Syngenta's Syntinel spore traps, data collected from weather
forecasts, and USDA's sentinel plots, when they become
available. RustTracker, available on
http://www.soybeanrust.com, will help growers assess
their potential for risk associated with rust.
"With the
possibility of soybean rust outbreaks looming on the
horizon, growers must have detailed forecasting information
if they are to be successful managers rather than victims of
the disease," said Valdemar Fischer, President of Syngenta
Crop Protection, North America.
Syngenta
developed an early-warning system for tracking soybean rust
in Brazil in 2003, creating a rust management tool that
became the industry blueprint. The forecasting system also
helped Brazil go from a nation that suffered more than $500
million worth of damage in 2002, when the disease first
arrived, to producing a record crop this season. For the
U.S., Syngenta has enlisted top private resources such as
meteorologists at Accuweather.com® that supply
state-of-the-art weather analysis and GIS technology.
Syntinel
RustTracker is an addition to a broad portfolio of solutions
Syngenta offers U.S. growers to address soybean rust. Among
its portfolio of products is Quilt(TM), a premix that pairs
the active ingredients in two trusted Syngenta fungicides,
Quadris® (azoxystrobin) and Tilt® (propiconazole).
Additionally, Syngenta produces the
http://www.soybeanrust.com Web site, where growers can
access current information, informative articles, and
opportunities to communicate directly with plant
pathologists about the disease.
Syngenta is a
world-leading agribusiness committed to sustainable
agriculture through innovative research and technology. The
company is a leader in crop protection, and ranks third in
the high-value commercial seeds market. Sales in 2004 were
approximately $7.3 billion. Syngenta employs some 19,000
people in over 90 countries. Syngenta is listed on the Swiss
stock exchange (SYNN) and in New York (NYSE: SYT).
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