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Friday, February 25, 2011

Syngenta Receives Import Approval from South Korea for the Agrisure Viptera™ 3111 Trait Stack

 

 

Monday, October 25, 2010

Syngenta Receives South Korean Import Approval for the Breakthrough Agrisure Viptera™ Trait

 

 

Monday, August 02, 2010

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Syngenta Receives Approval from Mexico, the Philippines for Two Agrisure Viptera™ Trait Stacks

Breakthrough technology delivers broad-spectrum control of lepidopteran insects

MINNETONKA, MINN. — Aug. 17, 2010 — Syngenta Seeds, Inc. today announced it has received approval from regulatory authorities in both Mexico and the Philippines for both the Agrisure Viptera 3111 trait stack and the Agrisure Viptera 3110 trait stack.

The Agrisure Viptera 3111 trait stack combines the Agrisure Viptera trait with the Agrisure® 3000GT trait stack to control more insects than any other product in corn trait history. The Agrisure Viptera 3110 trait stack combines the Agrisure Viptera trait with the Agrisure GT/CB/LL trait stack to provide broad-spectrum lepidopteran control and herbicide tolerance in areas where rootworm management is not a primary concern. These regulatory approvals allow the importation of U.S. corn grown from hybrids containing either the Agrisure Viptera 3111 trait stack or the Agrisure Viptera 3110 trait stack into Mexico and the Philippines for food, feed or processing use.

“Import approval of the Agrisure Viptera 3111 trait stack by the Mexican and Filipino governments gives U.S. corn growers access to two more valued markets,” said David Morgan, president of Syngenta Seeds. “Along with a growing list of available export markets, growers can anticipate an unprecedented level of insect control by using Agrisure Viptera trait technology.”

With the Agrisure Viptera 3111 trait stack, American corn growers have an in-seed defense against multi-pest complex insects, including corn earworm, fall armyworm, Western bean cutworm, black cutworm, dingy cutworm, common stalk borer and sugarcane borer, among others. In the U.S. alone, the multi-pest complex damages 238 million bushels of corn and costs $1.1 billion annually in lost yield and grain quality¹. Corn earworm, which historically has had no viable control solution, is highly susceptible to the Agrisure Viptera trait². In recent field trials, the Agrisure Viptera 3111 trait stack outperformed other triple stacks by 14.3 bu/A³ under significant corn earworm pressure and up to 32 bu/A4 under heavy pressure. 

The Agrisure Viptera 3111 trait stack is able to provide such extensive insect control because of Vip3A, the industry‘s first non-Cry (non-crystalline) insect control protein. Vip3A has demonstrated highly effective control of the multi-pest complex, creates new options for insect resistance management (IRM) and will serve as the platform for future Syngenta insect control and refuge solutions.

In the U.S., the Agrisure Viptera trait and trait stacks have received approval from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), completed consultation with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and received deregulation from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The single Agrisure Viptera trait also is approved for cultivation in Canada and Brazil, and the trait is approved for import to Australia, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, the Philippines, Japan and Taiwan. In addition to Mexico and the Philippines, the Agrisure Viptera 3111 trait stack and the Agrisure Viptera 3110 trait stack are approved for import into Canada and Japan.

Agrisure Viptera technology is available in hybrids from the Syngenta seed brands of Garst®, Golden Harvest® and NK® and will also be made available through licensing agreements. For more information about the Agrisure Viptera trait and the Agrisure Viptera 3111 trait stack, visit www.agrisureviptera.com.

About Syngenta
Syngenta is one of the world's leading companies with more than 25,000 employees in over 90 countries dedicated to our purpose: Bringing plant potential to life. Through world-class science, global reach and commitment to our customers we help to increase crop productivity, protect the environment and improve health and quality of life.  For more information about us please go to www.syngenta.com.

Crops or other material produced from Agrisure Corn Trait products can only be exported to, used, processed and/or sold in countries where all necessary regulatory approvals have been granted.

Agrisure®, Agrisure Viptera™, NK® and the Syngenta logo are trademarks of a Syngenta Group Company.

Garst® is a trademark of Garst Seed Company.

Golden Harvest® is a trademark of Golden Harvest Seeds, Inc.

NK Seeds is a business unit of Syngenta Seeds, Inc.

¹Sources: Census 2007 USDA, USDA Risk Management Agency‘s internal indemnity database. Aflatoxin Center of Excellence of the South, Syngenta Entomology Research.

²2007-2009 Agrisure Viptera™ Trait Replicated Trial Results. 15 locations with natural pest pressure, Agrisure CB/LL/RW hybrids vs. Agrisure CB/LL/RW isoline plus the Agrisure Viptera trait.

³2008 -2009 Agrisure Viptera trait yield results at 10 locations with corn earworm present. 

⁴2008 Agrisure Viptera trait replicated trial results. Six locations with high natural pest pressure.

©2010 Syngenta Seeds, Inc., Minneapolis, MN 55440. 

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