Pioneer Researchers Speed up Development of New Seed Products
July 13, 2007| |
The development of new and improved products, traits, and enabling technologies had been made faster with the help of the Accelerated Trait Integration process. This process is being used by researchers at Pioneer Hi-Bred to speed-up the development and to dramatically increase the supply of products with triple stacks - corn rootworm protection, corn borer protection and glyphosate resistance.
Mike Chapman, Pioneer research director, explains that Accelerated Trait Integration is making the inbred conversions earlier in the development pipeline allowing advanced research testing to be conducted on the desired stacked combinations for all pre-commercial hybrids. This requires the integration of the technology traits early in the development process; increasing the number of growing cycles per year by using numerous tropical and temperate locations throughout the world and the use of molecular markers to ensure optimal conversions.
Read the press release at http://www.pioneer.com/web/site/portal/menuitem.682f4124856d56c8b9b44b24d10093a0/.
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