Syngenta Seeds has unveiled its “Agrisure Artesian” technology, the new brand name for its line of water optimized hybrids. That according to an article on agrimarketing.com.
Syngenta says the technology enables corn plants to use available moisture more efficiently, resulting in higher yields on drought-stressed acres, including dryland and limited-irrigation farms in the western Corn Belt. The company says Agrisure Artesian hybrids have demonstrated the potential to preserve up to 15 percent of yield that might be lost under drought stress.
In a news release, Syngenta says it created the technology through advanced molecular breeding using genes from the corn genome responsible for managing water use in corn. Syngenta says it is also developing water-optimized hybrids utilizing a genetically modified trait. The company says the GM hybrids will not be available until 2015 or later, depending on regulatory and key import market approvals.
Syngenta says a limited quantity of the new water-optimized hybrids will be available for planting in 2011. Initial hybrids will be released primarily in the western Corn Belt.
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