US Patent Issued to Sumitomo Chemical on Oct. 14 for "Method for controlling phakopsora pachyrhizi having resistance against QoI fungicide" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,917, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Sumitomo Chemical Co. Ltd. (Chuo-ku, Japan).

"Method for controlling phakopsora pachyrhizi having resistance against QoI fungicide" was invented by Yuichi Matsuzaki (Takarazuka, Japan), Takaaki Nakano (Kasai, Japan), Hidekatsu Tobita (Takarazuka, Japan), Hiroto Tamashima (Takarazuka, Japan) and Keisuke Arai (Takarazuka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a method for controlling a soybean rust fungus having an amino acid substitution of F129L on mitochondrial cytochrome b protein. According to the present invention, a compound represented by formula (I) [wherein...