Luximo®
Luximo® provides a brand new mode of action in the fight against difficult to control grass weeds and offers a new backbone for winter wheat and spring barley herbicide programmes.
To be used as part of an IPM strategy, Luximo® sets a new standard for black-grass and ryegrass control, whilst delivering comparable levels of control against bromes as current, residual market standards.
Luximo® is available as Luxinum® Plus + Stomp® Aqua .
Luximo® webinar
In a recent webinar, we discussed how to get the most out of Luximo®, shared some of the latest black-grass and ryegrass trial results; and explored integrated weed management strategies to minimise seed return. Please find a recording of the webinar below.
For a write up of the webinar, please click here.
Luximo® in action
Here’s a snapshot of some of our ‘slider’ photo comparisons from demo sites. Please see below for further details.
Why Luximo®?
Luximo® offers growers the greatest efficacy in a winter wheat herbicide programme, and we recommend it as a replacement to flufenacet as the base of black-grass and ryegrass control programmes.
New mode of action
Luximo® (cinmethylin) has a completely new mode of action. It is classified by the Herbicide Resistance Action Committee (HRAC) as an inhibitor of fatty acid thioesterase (group 30).
Luximo® inhibits cell membrane production in the weed, meaning the weed can no longer grow.
In the field, root and shoot growth of sensitive plants is inhibited and often the weeds never emerge. Where they do merge, leaves show yellowing and discolouration, before the plant withers and dies.
This novel mode of action enables Luximo® to work against even resistant biotypes, making it possible to break the vicious cycle of black-grass reproduction.
New standard for black-grass control
Luximo® delivers superior performance to current market standards and is inherently stronger than flufenacet against black-grass.
Across 106 UK pre-emergence black-grass trials over four years, across different soil types and pressure, solo Luximo® gave an extra 22 percentage points of control over solo flufenacet.
Across 56 UK pre-emergence black-grass trials across three years, Luximo® plus pendimethalin and diflufenican outperformed Liberator (flufenacet + diflufenican) + aclonifen by an average of 12.5 percentage points in control.
New standard for ryegrass control
Luximo® delivers superior performance to current market standards and is inherently stronger than flufenacet against ryegrass.
Across 17 UK pre-emergence ryegrass trials over four years, solo Luximo® gave an extra 29 percentage points of control over solo flufenacet.
Ideal mix of chemical properties
Luximo® is primarily taken up by the roots of weeds and its ideal combination of chemical properties helps get it where it needs to be, and keep it there long enough to get the job done.
Reliable application
All soil residual herbicides require sufficient soil moisture to be activated. However, due to its chemical properties, Luximo® requires less moisture to ‘activate’ than flufenacet.
Whilst impossible to accurately predict since heavy dew can provide some moisture, as a rough guide, only 3mm of rainfall would be needed over a 5 day period to activate Luximo® whilst 7mm would be needed to activate flufenacet, providing a more reliable application.
Local comparison
To see how many days Luximo® would have had sufficient moisture to ‘activate’ compared to flufenacet for your location, over the last few years, please try out the interactive tool below.
More sustainable yields
Luximo® is manufactured from more than 50% sustainable materials, such as tree resin and by-products of paper manufacture, enabling increased yields in a more sustainable way.
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