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[Editor’s note: This post has been translated by Google translate and lightly edited for clarity]At the end of the summer season there is a very good news for corn, in terms of yield potential and health.
This week, the Ministry of Agro Industry, through the National Advisory Commission on Agricultural Biotechnology (Conabia), which regulates activities related to genetically modified organisms, approved the marketing of a new genetically modified corn, with four stacked traits, developed by DuPont Pioneer Argentina.
This “super” corn will be officially presented next week.
A source who closely followed the approval of this material told Clarin Rural the hybrid carries two traits for the control of lepidopteran insects (stem borer and isoca Tang), one double (for fall armyworm and glufosinate ammonium) and a trait for glyphosate-resistance.
The hybrid is commercially known under the name of “Leptra” and will be available seed for the 2016/17 campaign for the central and northern regions of the country, the source said.
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“It is a great innovation because it is the first corn with more than two transgenic events in their germplasm and a technological solution for areas that have high insect pressure, and a tool in diversifying herbicides,” said the informant.
Argentina is the second country in the world that will seed of this material. . . it was approved in Brazil two months ago. . .
Read the English version of the full article from Google translate: Resistant “super” corn comes with four transgenic events
Read full, original article in Spanish: Se viene un maíz “súper” resistente con cuatro eventos transgénicos
