Des Moines, Iowa
October 17, 2007
Pioneer Hi-Bred, a DuPont business, is adding 23 new soybean
varieties to its lineup for 2008. These new Pioneer® brand
soybean varieties offer growers protection against yield-robbing
pests such as soybean cyst nematode (SCN), sudden death syndrome
(SDS), Phytophthora root rot and brown stem rot (BSR).
"For 2008 we're excited to offer a strong class of new products
that support all parts of the North American soybean market,"
says Don Schafer, Pioneer senior product line manager -
soybeans. "The majority of these varieties are adapted across
their respective maturity zones and display high performance
along with solid agronomic stability."
Twenty-one of the new Pioneer soybean varieties contain the
Roundup Ready® (RR) gene and offer impressive performance and
yield protection.
New Pioneer variety 90M80 is a Group 0 variety that not only has
the RR gene, but the Peking source for resistance against SCN.
"This high-yielding product gives Minnesota customers the
ability to address the northern movement of SCN," says Schafer.
"90M80 also offers Rps1c Phytophthora resistance and good
Phytophthora field tolerance."
A new variety offering excellent yield performance and solid SDS
tolerance is 91M80. This late Group I variety with the RR gene
has Rps1k Phytophthora resistance and SCN resistance.
Yield and solid agronomics combine in both 92M11and 92M21. These
new early Group II varieties with the RR gene offer the Peking
source for SCN resistance, Rps1k Phytophthora resistance and
frogeye leaf spot tolerance. These products will be offered
across a wide geographic area in 2008 - from Iowa to Minnesota
and east to Michigan.
92M53 is a regional product for northern Iowa customers that was
developed with the new Accelerated Yield Technology (AYT). AYT
uses proprietary molecular breeding techniques to rapidly scan
and identify genes associated with increased yield. These genes
then are incorporated into elite Pioneer soybean germplasm.
Additional Pioneer soybean varieties developed with AYT may be
advanced for 2008 planting, pending wide area product
advancement trial results.
92M81 offers very good tolerance to BSR and SDS. In addition,
this variety with the RR gene has SCN resistance, as well as the
Rps1c Phytophthora resistance gene.
93M61 is an exciting new mid-Group III product that promises to
be a very popular variety with a large number of growers - from
Kansas and Nebraska in the West to Pennsylvania and Maryland in
the East. This product features resistance to SCN and
Phytophthora via the Rps1k gene plus tolerance to SDS, BSR and
frogeye leaf spot.
Pioneer Hi-Bred, a DuPont
business, is the world's leading source of customized solutions
for farmers, livestock producers and grain and oilseed
processors. With headquarters in Des Moines, Iowa, Pioneer
provides access to advanced plant genetics in nearly 70
countries. DuPont is a science-based products and services
company. Founded in 1802, DuPont puts science to work by
creating sustainable solutions essential to a better, safer,
healthier life for people everywhere. Operating in more than 70
countries, DuPont offers a wide range of innovative products and
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