A Pesticide Information Project of Cooperative Extension Offices of Cornell University, Michigan State University, Oregon State University, and University of California at Davis. The active ingredient propiconazole is a triazole fungicide that has protective, curative, and systemic activity. Some trade names for products containing propiconazole include Banner, Benit, Desmel, Orbit, Radar, Tilt, Fidis, Alamo, Spire, Practis, Bumper, Mantis, Restore, Banner Maxx, Taspa, Juno, Novel and Break.
Formulations come as a emulsifiable concentrates and wettable powders.
It is used on grasses grown for seed, mushrooms, corn, wild rice, peanuts, almonds, sorghum, oats, pecans, apricots, peaches, nectarines, plums and prunes. On cereals it controls diseases caused by Erysiphe graminis, Leptosphaeria nodorum, Pseudocerosporella herpotrichoides, Puccinia spp. The biosynthesis of these ergosterols is critical to the formation of cell walls of fungi. Propiconazole was considered a slight irritant in rabbit skin and eye irritation studies. The formulated products were considered a moderate irritant in rabbit skin and eye irritation studies.