title: Procymidone
text: # Procymidone
  
  Procymidone is a pesticide. It is often used for killing unwanted ferns and nettles, and as a dicarboximide fungicide for killing fungi, for example as seed dressing, pre-harvest spray or post-harvest dip of lupins, grapes, stone fruit, strawberries. It is a known endocrine disruptor (androgen receptor antagonist) which interferes with the sexual differentiation of male rats. It is considered to be a poison.
  
  