The 2016 version of the FRAC MOA Poster is now available.  This PDF is suitable for printing up to a wall-sized poster print.  Copies may be printed freely for educational purposes only. The FRAC List of Fungicide Common Names has also been updated.  This is a list of all of the fungicides included in the FRAC Code List and the FRAC MOA poster in alphabetical order by common name.

Minutes of the 2016 Azanapthalene Working Group meeting and the 2015 meeting of the QoI Working Group are now available on the respective working group websites under general use recommendations. Monitoring results from the 2015 season as well as the 2016 use recommendations are included. 

 The 2016 version of the FRAC Code List^© is available on the publications page (www.frac.info/publications).  Changes to this year's version include:

1. B6, group 47 was added for phenamacril.
2. The mode of action for the entire B group was renamed to "Cytoskeleton and motor proteins".
3. Pydiflumetofen was added to SDHI, group 7.
4. Validamycin was removed from H3, group 26 and reclassified to U18.
5. The group name for picarbutrazox in U17 was corrected.
6. Zinc thiazole was added to category M3.
7. A new category, M12, was added for the lupine extract branded as BLAD. 

Andy Leadbeater, Chairman of the FRAC Steering Committee, passed away at the end of November 2015. Andy was also the Head of Global Product Biology, Fungicides, for Syngenta. Andy was integral in the development of the science of fungicide resistance management as part of his early work monitoring for resistance to the phenylamides at Ciba-Geigy. He participated directly in FRAC activities; first joining the SBI/DMI Working Group and then shortly thereafter joining the QoI Working Group.  He joined the FRAC Steering Committee in 2004 when he took over the chairmanship of the QoI Working Group. Andy became Chair of the FRAC Steering Committee in 2007.  

Andy was deeply engaged in the development of resistance management and product stewardship strategies across the industry, helping to secure the long-term effectiveness of many fungicide products for growers around the world. He was an ambassador for resistance management, participating on many committees both within Europe and globally and as an invited speaker at many meetings every year. His broad and deep knowledge of plant pathology and crop protection was well respected and will be missed by his FRAC and Syngenta colleagues as well as the many farmers, crop advisors and researchers with which he interacted. 

We will remember Andy Leadbeater for his technical excellence, his positive outlook no matter the difficulty and his willingness to mentor new practitioners in the field of resistance management.

Klaus Stenzel, vice chair of the FRAC SC and chairman of the SBI Working group, will be the interim chair of the FRAC Steering Committee until the election of the new chairman at the Steering Committee meeting in Reinhardsbrunn, Germany in April 2016. Helge Sierotzki will be the interim Chair of the QoI working group.

The SBI Working Group met during the FRAC WG week on Dec. 04, 2015. Summaries of the monitoring results presented during the WG meeting as well as the 2016 use recommendations are published on the SBI WG page (Minutes of the 2015 Meeting, Recommendations for 2016). The general recommendations for cereals were updated (changes are in bold).