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Monsanto receives approval for the first stacked trait corn product in Argentina

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St. Louis, Missouri
August 31, 2007

Stacked trait approval allows Argentine farmers to reap benefits in an expanding corn market

Monsanto Company (NYSE: MON) today received approval from the Argentina Secretariat of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Food for the company's stacked corn trait product containing the insect protection trait YieldGard® Corn Borer (as known in the United States) with Roundup Ready® Corn 2 technology. This approval clears the way for the first stacked trait product to be used by Argentine farmers to increase their productivity and add the convenience of reduced pesticide sprays.

This step completes the necessary regulatory approvals for this stacked trait product. The stacked trait approval was issued after a thorough product safety scientific review conducted by the Argentina regulatory bodies of Conabia and Senasa. Monsanto now will work to receive local approvals for the hybrids containing these technologies.

"We're pleased with the decision of the Argentina Agriculture Secretary," said Brett Begemann, Executive Vice President of International Commercial for Monsanto Company. "This approval represents a new opportunity for farmers to access more benefits in one seed while lowering their costs of production and increasing their yields. The approval also adds a new value opportunity for Monsanto in a key, expanding corn market in Latin America."

Argentine farmers planted nearly 8 million acres of hybrid corn in the 2006-2007 growing season. The Monsanto DEKALB brand is the number one corn seed company in Argentina and was sold on 40 percent of the acres last season. By 2010, the company estimates that the Argentine corn market could be as large as 10 million acres as Argentina produces more corn to meet the needs of export markets in Latin America.

Monsanto's stacked traits have the potential to be of value to farmers on more than three-quarters of the corn acreage in Argentina either through its DEKALB brand or through its licensees. Today, the corn borer pest infests more than 80 percent of the corn acres in that country.

Monsanto Company is a leading global provider of technology-based solutions and agricultural products that improve farm productivity and food quality.

YieldGard, Roundup Ready and DEKALB are registered trademark of Monsanto Company.


 

Argentina aprueba maíz GM
La Secretaría de Agricultura, Ganadería, Pesca y Alimentos (SAGPyA) de Argentina aprobó el primer evento genéticamente modificado que combina las características de resistencia a insectos (Bt) y la tolerancia al herbicida glifosato en la misma planta (eventos conocidos como stack o apilados).

La reciente aprobación de este maíz genéticamente modificado, denominado evento MON 810 x NK 603 y desarrollado por la empresa Monsanto, constituye un salto tecnológico que en la protección de cultivos que potenciará su rendimiento.

Desde el punto de vista agronómico, se espera un incremento de entre 5 y 7 puntos porcentuales, en ambientes promedio, con respecto al maíz resistente a insectos que actualmente se siembra en Argentina y que ocupa el 60% de la superficie de maíz en Argentina.

La adopción de esta tecnología en Argentina permitiría aumentar la producción total de maíz en casi un 6% (tomando para este cálculo un 100% de adopción sobre la misma superficie sembrada y condiciones climáticas similares), incrementando la producción anual en casi 2 millones de toneladas adicionales.

Nota: Se denomina evento a la inserción en el genoma vegetal, en forma estable y conjunta, de uno o más genes que forman parte de una construcción definida. El término “evento apilado” (también llamado acumulado, combinado, o stack) hace referencia a la combinación de características en una única línea por cruzamiento entre parentales que contienen los eventos correspondientes (en este caso, el evento apilado MON 810 x NK 603 se genera por cruzamiento entre dos parentales: el que lleva el evento MON 810 con el que lleva el evento NK 603).

Fuente: ArgenBio
 

 

 

 

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