EPPO Global Database

EPPO Reporting Service no. 05 - 1990 Num. article: 1990/03

Guidelines for Efficacy Evaluation now over 150


With the next set of EPPO guidelines for efficacy evaluation of plant protection products, 152 will have been published.

They cover:

fungicides           50
insecticides           60
herbicides           31
growth regulators            4
rodentlcldes            3
side-effects            2
general            2

Total         152

The next set, to appear in Bulletin OEPP/EPPO Bulletin 20(3), will include, besides some revised guidelines; the first of growth regulator guidelines (desiccants used for potato, reduction of lodging in cereals, reduction of lodging in paddly rice, retardation of growth in grass), guidelines for Phytophthora fragariae, soil treatments against Pythium spp. Aphis gossypii on cotton and Spodoptera exigua on cotton. It also includes the second guideline on evaluation of side-effects on beneficial arthropods (Phytoselulus persimilis) and a major general guideline on design and analysis of efficacy evaluation trials.


Sources

EPPO Secretariat.