Product Description
Agrisure® GT hybrids provide tolerance to in-crop applications of glyphosate-based herbicides while
offering growers a full range of assurances and the freedom to choose their preferred glyphosate brand.
Corn hybrids with the Agrisure® GT trait exhibit outstanding tolerance to in-crop applications of glyphosate-based herbicides - the active ingredient in Roundup® and Touchdown® herbicides. Glyphosate controls weeds by inhibiting EPSPS, a key enzyme necessary for photosynthesis. Agrisure GT causes the corn hybrid to overproduce EPSPS so it can withstand applications of glyphosate with minimal damage to the crop or resulting grain.
The technology behind the Agrisure® GT trait, the GA21 event, was developed between the late 1980s through the mid 1990s and was first marketed in 1998 as Roundup Ready® corn. Since then, thousands of growers on millions of acres have experienced the benefits of the GA21 technology.
Syngenta acquired the exclusive rights to commercialize the GA21 event, which cleared the way for Syngenta to offer an alternative glyphosate-tolerant trait choice to growers through multiple seed company partners. The result was the Agrisure® GT trait.
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