Modern Crop Protection Compounds, Volume 2: Fungicides

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Peter Jeschke was a senior fellow in research and development Pest Control Chemistry at Bayer AG Crop Science in Germany from 1997 until his retirement in 2022. In addition he has been honorary professor at the University of Duesseldorf (Germany) since 2011. He has more than 250 patent applications and publications to his name and he is an Associate Editor for Pest Management Science of the Society of Chemical Industry (UK) and also a member of the Editorial Advisory Board for the Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry (Wiley-VCH). Clemens Lamberth is a senior principal scientist in the chemical research department of Syngenta Crop Protection AG Switzerland. Since 29 years he is specialized in fungicide discovery and is the inventor of the fungicide mandipropamid. He is the author of ca. 100 peer-reviewed publications and book chapters 120 patents and edited the two Wiley-VCH books Bioactive Heterocyclic Compound Classes and Bioactive Carboxylic Compound Classes. In 2018 he received the Senior Industrial Science Award from the Swiss Chemical Society. Beth Lorsbach is the global leader Small Molecule Discovery and Development at Corteva Agriscience in Indianapolis USA. She is responsible for developing goals and objectives based on discovery strategic vision. She also provides technical personnel and organizational management of the chemistry functional groups whose focus is to discover and characterize novel active ingredients for commercial development. She has authored over 94 patent applications 23 external publications and 31 conference presentations. She received the 2015 Rising Star Award from the American Chemical Society (ACS) and was named a 2019 ACS Fellow.