Fluazinam is a protective broad-spectrum contact fungicide, used to control various soil-borne fungal pathogens on a variety of crops, such as peanuts, potatoes, beans, etc. It can be applied as a foliar spray or soil treatment, which is effective against a number of diseases caused by pathogenic fungi such as gray mold, downy mildew, melanose, scab, alternaria blotch, clubroot, sclerotinia blight, white root rot, violet root rot.

It is a pyridinamine fungicide that can control blight caused by Phytophthora infestans in potatoes, beans and other crops (e.g., bushberries, edible-podded beans and cruciferous vegetables such as cabbage and broccoli). Fluazinam has strong persistence of effect against blight and can suppress secondary infection in the field through inhibition of sporulation.