The earth can, in fact, sustain nine billion people. But for this to happen, we need innovations to raise the efficiency of agriculture to a sustainable, higher level. Bayer CropScience supports farmers around the world by providing new solutions.

Resistance Management is the tactic used by the crop protection researchers of Bayer CropScience’s Product and Project Support Group to keep the upper hand against beetles, aphids and other pest insects.

“The active substance is the key to the activity of a crop protection product” – at least that’s the received wisdom. But in fact, this is only half the story. A product does what it should only because the active substance has been combined with special co-formulants. Here, we take a look at safeners, substances that underlie the selectivity of certain crop protection agents.