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Innocul8: early defence support for stronger, more resilient crops

Innocul8: early defence support for stronger, more resilient crops

Powered by PREtec™ technology, Innocul8 helps prepare crops before disease pressure builds, supporting canopy health, programme performance and yield potential.

Potatoes

Potatoes

Sugar Beet

Sugar Beet

Supports crop resillience

Complements fungicide programmes

Zero residue positioning

Crop protection is under increasing pressure

Crop protection is under increasing pressure

Potatoes

Potatoes

Potato growers face tight margins, rising input costs and sustained late blight pressure. With reduced reliance on multi-site options and greater dependence on systemic chemistry, resistance pressure is harder to manage. Protecting canopy health early and through tuber bulking is essential to preserving marketable yield and margin.

Potato growers face tight margins, rising input costs and sustained late blight pressure. With reduced reliance on multi-site options and greater dependence on systemic chemistry, resistance pressure is harder to manage. Protecting canopy health early and through tuber bulking is essential to preserving marketable yield and margin.

Sugar Beet

Sugar Beet

Modern sugar beet production faces increasing pressure from disease, environmental stress and tighter margins. Diseases such as Cercospora leaf spot are becoming more problematic, meaning crop protection programmes must support both disease management and plant health.

Modern sugar beet production faces increasing pressure from disease, environmental stress and tighter margins. Diseases such as Cercospora leaf spot are becoming more problematic, meaning crop protection programmes must support both disease management and plant health.

How Innocul8 works

How Innocul8 works

Innocul8 is powered by PREtec™, PI AgSciences' peptide technology. PREtec™ activates natural defence signalling pathways already present within the plant. It primes the crop before pressure builds, helping it respond more rapidly and efficiently when disease or stress arrives.

1

The peptide is detected by the plant in a similar way to early warning signals from pathogens or damaged tissue.

Recognised by the crop

2

Receptor-mediated signalling at the leaf surface triggers systemic defence pathways.

Defence pathways activated

3

The peptide is detected by the plant in a similar way to early warning signals from pathogens or damaged tissue.

Crop is primed

Innocul8 is not direct pathogen control. It supports internal plant readiness and complements conventional chemistry.

A complementary layer of crop defence

A complementary layer of crop defence

Innocul8 is designed to strengthen existing crop protection programmes by adding an internal layer of plant defence alongside conventional chemistry. It helps support canopy health, protect programme investment and preserve yield potential during key growth stages.

Fits into established fungicide programmes without requiring a new programme structure.

Flexible integration

Supports the crop itself by activating internal resistance mechanisms and improving resilience under stress.

Enhanced crop resilience

Supports programme robustness without adding further resistance pressure to conventional chemistry.

Resistance-management fit

Contributes manganese and zinc, supporting canopy performance and metabolic function.

Micronutrient contribution

Innocul8 for potatoes

Innocul8 for potatoes

Early defence support powered by PREtec™

Crop Pathway

Innocul8 fits best in applications 1 to 4 of a standard late blight programme, where the objective is to establish crop resilience early and support programme robustness through the first key risk periods. It is especially relevant in post-mancozeb potato programmes, where the reduction in multi-site support has increased reliance on systemic and single-site chemistry.

Use in applications 1 to 4 of the standard blight programme

Best Use Guidelines

Begin from full emergence

Apply for a minimum of 1 to 2 sprays

Continue where disease pressure, programme design and crop value justify ongoing use

Designed to fit within fungicide resistance management strategies

Apply at 500 g/ha

2026

Why this matters in 2026

Financial exposure per hectare is higher

Protecting canopy through tuber bulking is more critical

Safeguarding margin over input cost requires more robust, lower-risk programmes

Safeguarding margin over input cost requires more robust, lower-risk programmes

Innocul8 fits best in applications 1 to 4 of a standard late blight programme, where the objective is to establish crop resilience early and support programme robustness through the first key risk periods. It is especially relevant in post-mancozeb potato programmes, where the reduction in multi-site support has increased reliance on systemic and single-site chemistry.

Use in applications 1 to 4 of the standard blight programme

Best Use Guidelines

Begin from full emergence

Apply for a minimum of 1 to 2 sprays

Continue where disease pressure, programme design and crop value justify ongoing use

Designed to fit within fungicide resistance management strategies

Apply at 500 g/ha

Application rate: 500 g/ha

Best-fit application considerations

Flexible integration within established fungicide programmes

Zero residue

Foliar application with fungicide applications

Tank-mix compatible with foliar nutrients and standard fungicides

Innocul8 for sugar beet

Enhancing plant health and yields with Innocul8

Crop Pathway

Innocul8 for sugar beet

Enhancing plant health and yields with Innocul8

Crop Pathway

In sugar beet, Innocul8 complements Angle by combining robust fungicidal activity with activation of the crop's own natural defence responses. Angle provides direct protection against key foliar diseases such as powdery mildew, rust and Cercospora, while Innocul8 prepares the plant internally to respond faster and more effectively when disease pressure develops.

Angle

Direct disease protection through conventional fungicidal activity.

Innocul8

Internal plant preparedness and improved crop resilience.

Angle + Innocul8

A stronger dual approach supporting greener leaf area, canopy longevity and sugar yield retention.

Application rate: 500 g/ha

Best-fit application considerations

Flexible integration within established fungicide programmes

Zero residue

Foliar application with fungicide applications

Tank-mix compatible with foliar nutrients and standard fungicides

Field Performance

Potatoes

In a 2024 Eurofins trial in Derbyshire under high-pressure conditions, Innocul8 showed clear programme value.

UK potato trial: improved marketable yield and delayed blight development

UK potato trial: improved marketable yield and delayed blight development

vs untreated control (Innocul8 alone)

10 t/ha

vs mancozeb programme (in full programme)

2 t/ha

delay in visible blight development

10 days

slower symptom development in programme

7 days

Sugar Beet

In trials comparing untreated and standard fungicide treatments, Innocul8 applied with Angle improved sugar beet yield by 34%, increasing yield by 1 t/ha compared with Revystar and 2.2 t/ha compared with Angle alone.

Sugar beet trials: stronger yield performance with Angle + Innocul8

Sugar yield uplift with Angle + Innocul8

+34%

The Innocul8 Advantage

Innocul8 helps crops prepare, perform and protect yield potential

Innocul8 helps crops prepare, perform and protect yield potential

Powered by PREtec™, Innocul8 supports natural plant defence signalling, helping crops maintain resilience under disease and stress pressure. Used within established programmes, it provides a complementary layer of defence for potatoes and sugar beet.

Prime the crop before pressure builds

Support canopy health and programme performance

Protect yield potential in high-value crops