Discovery of Novel Piperidinylthiazole Derivatives As Broad-Spectrum Fungicidal Candidates

of 14.54, 5.57, and 14.03 mg/L in vitro and against P. cubensis and P. infestans with 60% and 30% inhibition rates, respectively, at 1 mg/L in vivo. Mode of action studies by RNA sequencing analysis discovered oxysterol-binding protein (OSBP), chitin synthase (CHS1), and (1,3)-β-glucan synthase (FKS2) as the potent target of 5i against S. sclerotiorum. Quenching studies validated that OSBP was the same target of both 5i and oxathiapiprolin; it was quenched by both of them. Our studies discovered isothiazole-containing piperidinylthiazole as an OSBP target-based novel lead for fungicide development.