Mycogen Seeds, a retail seed company of Dow AgroSciences, is excited to announce its first Quad-Stack™ corn hybrid which includes the powerful in-plant insect protection of Herculex® XTRA – combining the protection of Herculex RW Rootworm Protection and Herculex I Insect Protection ­– along with the herbicide resistance of Roundup Ready® and LibertyLink® technology, making it resistant to over-the-top applications of Roundup® and LIBERTY® herbicides.

 “This combination gives growers the broadest-spectrum insect protection package available plus the flexibility of two broad-spectrum herbicide resistance packages,” says Terry Gardner, Marketing Specialist, Mycogen Seeds.

This new Quad-Stack grain corn hybrid, 2P788, is a 115-day hybrid that features Herculex XTRA, which protects against corn rootworm, first- and second-generation European corn borer, black cutworm, fall armyworm, western bean cutworm, southwestern corn borer, lesser cornstalk borer, southern corn stalk borer, sugarcane borer and intermediate suppression of corn earworm. For maximum weed management options, 2P788 also includes LibertyLink and Roundup Ready technology.

A medium-tall hybrid, 2P788 features excellent emergence, drought tolerance and ear retention, along with very good standability and staygreen. 2P788 also offers excellent yield stability across a wide range of environments.

“Mycogen Seeds is proud to be a developer of this cutting-edge technology to bring growers our first Quad-Stack corn hybrid,” Gardner says.

In addition to this recent Quad-Stack™ hybrid, Mycogen Seeds also offers growers 2P782, a triple-stacked hybrid that combines the broad-spectrum insect protection of Herculex® I with Roundup Ready and LibertyLink technology. This hybrid has shown competitive yields across a wide range of environments and offers an outstanding agronomic package that includes excellent emergence, drought tolerance, standability and very good staygreen.

Currently, Mycogen Seeds has 24 commercially available stacked grain corn hybrids featuring the technologies that growers demand, including the Herculex family of traits, LibertyLink, Roundup Ready, CLEARFIELD® and YieldGard®.

“This new Quad-Stack hybrid is just the latest. There are many more stacked trait combinations in our product pipeline, and Mycogen Seeds expects to offer even more innovative stacks in our top-performing elite genetics in the near future,” says Gardner.

Mycogen Seeds is a retail seed company of Dow AgroSciences LLC and a leading producer of grain corn hybrids, the leader in Silage-Specific™ corn hybrids, the largest sunflower hybrid producer, and a producer of canola, alfalfa, soybeans and sorghum. For more information on Mycogen Seeds, visit www.mycogen.com.

Sale and delivery of Herculex XTRA hybrids are subject to Herculex XTRA receiving Japan grain import approval, which is anticipated prior to the 2006 planting season. Upon Japan import approval, Herculex XTRA hybrids will be marketed as Market Choices® products.

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®LIBERTY and LibertyLink are registered trademarks of Bayer CropScience.
®CLEARFIELD is a registered trademark of BASF Corporation.
®Market Choices is a registered certification mark used under license from ASTA.
®Roundup Ready and YieldGard are registered trademarks of Monsanto Company.
©2006 Mycogen Seeds. Mycogen Seeds is an affiliate of Dow AgroSciences LLC.    
Herculex Insect Protection technology by Dow AgroSciences and Pioneer Hi-Bred.