Azoxystrobin, synthetic strobilurin

Azoxystrobin is a synthetic analog of naturally occurring strobilurins and oudemansins. The preventative, curative, eradicant, translaminar and systemic properties facilitate control of a wide range of major plant pathogens in many crops... 

Figure 4 The commercial synthetic agricultural fungicides azoxystrobin and kresoxim-methyl, inspired by the natural strobilurins, such as strobilurin A and oudemansin A...

In the case of the fungicides, too, the development of resistance necessitates the continual development of new active agents. A special innovation was the introduction of synthetic modifications of the fungal constituent strobilurin A (Formula 9.2), which has antibiotic and fungicidal activity. Examples are azoxystrobin (IV) and epoxy-conazole (XVI). 

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