Monsanto: Roundup Ready Flex cotton results prove beneficial for farmers
08 Mar '06
3 min read
According to Murdock, there also was no need in many cases for growers to apply insecticides for worm control due to the in-plant protection offered by the Bollgard II trait.
Murdock adds that Roundup Ready Flex cotton is one of the most widely tested cotton technologies ever to be commercialized, having been tested extensively at all major land-grant universities in the Cotton Belt since the 2001 growing season.
The new cotton varieties that will carry the Roundup Ready Flex trait in 2006 also were tested in the Monsanto field trials and include offerings from most major cottonseed companies, including Stoneville, Delta and Pine Land, Beltwide Cotton Genetics and FiberMax. Roundup Ready Flex will be available in more than 30 cottonseed varieties for 2006.
In addition, most of these new cotton varieties were tested in Official Variety Trials (OVT) in 2005 at major land-grant Cotton Belt universities, including University of Georgia, Auburn University, Mississippi State University, University of Arkansas, Louisiana State University, Texas A&M University, Clemson University, Florida State University, Virginia Tech, North Carolina State University, University of Missouri, University of Tennessee and Oklahoma State University.
"Many of these new Roundup Ready Flex and Bollgard II with Roundup Ready Flex varieties performed comparably to current commercial standards," Murdock says. "These OVT trials involved a wide range of geographies and soil conditions. Growers are encouraged to examine the OVT data for their specific geographies and seed brand preference."
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