Thiophanate methyl is a fungicide/wound protectant used to control plant diseases in stone fruit, pome fruit, tropical and subtropical fruit crops, grapes and fruiting vegetables. Thiophanate methyl is effective against a wide variety of fungal diseases such as leaf spots, blotches and blights; fruit spots and rots; sooty mould; scabs; bulb, corn and tuber decays; blossom blights; powdery mildews; certain rusts; and common soil borne crown and root rots.