Bordeaux Mixture is one of the most historic and widely used fungicides in agriculture. It was invented in 1882 by the French botanist Millardet, who developed it to fight downy mildew on grapes. Although a long time has passed since its invention, Bordeaux Mixture remains a key copper-based product for protecting crops against fungal and bacterial diseases.<\/p>\n
Bordeaux Mixture is a combination of copper sulphate and lime, where copper acts as the active ingredient against fungal diseases, while lime neutralizes the copper’s acidity and stabilizes the mixture. Bordeaux Mixture works mainly by contact: once applied on the vegetation, it forms a protective film that prevents fungal spores from germinating. When a fungus is exposed to copper, it suffers cellular damage and its reproductive ability is suppressed<\/p>\n
For over 50 years, we have been producing Bordeaux Mixture in our facilities in Italy. Traditionally, Bordeaux Mixture was offered in wettable powder (WP) form, which, although effective, had the drawback of the dust. This is why we decided to develop a water-dispersible granule (WG) formulation. Poltiglia Manica 20 WG is the result of a long research and development process, which successfully addressed the challenges associated with dust management. The granules of Poltiglia 20 WG disperse easily in water, ensuring better suspensibility and homogeneity of the solution, while reducing exposure risks for operators.<\/p>\n
The addition of green co-formulants in the formula ensures compatibility with other active substances, increasing the possibilities of tank-mixing with other plant protection products and improving the persistence of the protective effect on crops<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bordeaux Mixture is one of the most historic and widely used fungicides in agriculture. It was invented in 1882 by the French botanist Millardet, who developed it to fight downy mildew on grapes. Although a long time has passed since its invention, Bordeaux Mixture remains a key copper-based product for protecting crops against fungal and… View Article<\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10609,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-products-application"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.manica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10615,"href":"https:\/\/www.manica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10614\/revisions\/10615"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}