Agricultural Glycosystems Inc. other research news

The wholly owned subsidiary of IGG International Inc. (IGGI, Cambridge, Mass.) announced that tests in greenhouse-grown crop plants demonstrated the anti-fungal action of the company's lead compound.

Seven days after treatment with a 0.1 percent solution of the naturally derived carbohydrate, about 80 percent of the crops were disease free, but all control plants were infected. Diseases protected against included botrytis cinerea, downy mildew, phytophthora infestans, coletotrichum spp. and phythium spp. Cucumber, potato, and tomato plants were protected, without toxicity, in the tests carried out in Israel. ...