A laboratory assay to determine the sensitivity of Rhynchosporium secalis to the fungicide triadimenol

Thirty single-spore isolates of Rhynchosporium secalis were assayed in vitro to assess relative sensitivities to the fungicide triadimenol. Minimum inhibitory concentrations ranged from 0.2 to 3.2 μg/ml. Isolates collected in 1981 from winter barley crops treated with triadimenol + tuberidazole, triadimefon, or prochloraz were as sensitive as those from untreated crops, and four isolates collected prior to the widespread use of these fungicides were not especially sensitive. All isolates tested in the greenhouse on winter and spring barley were controlled by Baytan (triadimenol and fuberidazole).