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title: Crops and Diseases Managed by LifeGard
description: LifeGard® biological plant activator offers broad-spectrum disease control on a variety of crops. Learn more about the crops and diseases it covers.
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## LifeGard Biological Plant Activator Represents a New Class of Fungicide

## LIFEGARD AT A GLANCE

### BENEFITS

- Broad spectrum disease control
- Easy to use WG formulation + tank mix compatibility
- Improves yields and crop quality
- Low risk of developing resistance
- 4 hour REI
- 0 day PHI
- Exempt from residue tolerance 

### CROPS

- Almonds
- Blueberries
- Carrots
- Citrus
- Cole crops
- Cucurbits
- Fruiting vegetables
- Grapes
- Leafy vegetables

- Legumes
- Pecan
- Pome fruit
- Potatoes
- Sugar beets
- Table beets
- Tobacco

### DISEASES

- Fire blight
- Early blight
- Late blight
- White mold
- Cercospora
- Downy mildew
- Powdery mildew

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## Management & Protection

The active ingredient of LifeGard® branded products is a naturally occurring bacterium (*Bacillus mycoides* isolate J or BmJ) which triggers the plant’s natural defense mechanism within the plant to fight against disease. This  response to pathogenic fungi, bacteria and viruses in the phenomenon known as Induced Response, or IR. The BmJ bacterium “switches on” a plant’s resistance genes causing a cascade of metabolic responses by the plant to limit infection and the development of disease. LifeGard is unique in that it works entirely as a microbial IR activator with no direct antagonistic effect on plant pathogens.

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