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Dow AgroSciences and Monsanto reach cross-licensing agreements
Earlier this week Monsanto and Dow AgroSciences reached new cross-licensing agreements in the next generation of advanced weed and insect control.
Ben Kaehler, US seed general manager for Dow details the agreements. “Monsanto will become the first corn licensee of our Enlist weed control system,” he says. “The second announcement is that Dow AgroSciences will take license to Monsanto’s new corn rootworm trait called Corn Rootworm III and that will be added to our current SmartStax platform in the future.”
Pending regulatory approval, Kaehler says the latter agreement paves the way for the introduction of next generation of SmartStax products.
He tells Brownfield these agreements encompass platforms for growers to use today, tomorrow and in the future. “Today, growers can plant SmartStax products from a number of companies,” he says. “We expect in 2014 we will be able to use SmartStax and have it stacked with Enlist – giving growers the 2-4D tolerance. By the end of the decade, we anticipate having the next generation of SmartStax, which would contain the new Corn Rootworm III trait as well as being stacked with Enlist.”
Which Kaehler says will provide growers with both insect protection and a broad spectrum of herbicide options.
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