According to a press release, EDEN Bioscience introduced a completely new class of crop production and plant protection technology. The press release can be found on this page .
More information is also available on the Eden Bioscience web site here .
Then Mother Nature takes over, degrading the esters into harmless sugars and fatty acids. And they do little harm to insect predators and are completely nontoxic to animals and people. During the recent launch of the new nematicide 'Nemathorin' from Zeneca, ADAS specialist Bill Parker warned leading potato growers and agronomists that Potato Cyst Nematodes can be effectively controlled under a rigorous Integrated Crop Management regime, but too many growers are flouting the basic principles and the extremely damaging pest is increasing rapidly. Already an estimated 50 per cent of potato land is infected. Furthermore, in most commercial situations growers are now looking at four or five year rotations.