Thursday, January 8, 2009: 9:15 AM

Salon J (Marriott Rivercenter Hotel)

Brad Minton¹, Scott Martin¹, Eric Palmer¹, Henry McLean¹, David Black¹, Victor Mascarenhas¹, David V. Negrotto² and David P. Dickerson², (1)Syngenta Crop Protection, Greensboro, NC, (2)Syngenta Biotechnology, Inc., Research Triangle Park, NC

Syngenta is currently developing VipCot™, a transgenic insect-resistant cotton that expresses dual insect toxins (Vip3A and Cry1Ab). Trials were conducted throughout the cotton belt to test the efficacy of VipCot against tobacco budworm, Heliothis virescens (Fabricius), and cotton bollworm, Helicoverpa zea (Boddie). The efficacy of VipCot in two advanced experimental lines (0792S18 and 0792S25) was compared to that of VipCot in Coker 312 and the conventional variety FM958. VipCot provided excellent control of both tobacco budworm and cotton bollworm in all genetic backgrounds, suffering little or no square, flower or boll damage. Results from 2008 field trials conducted across the cotton belt (TX, LA, AR, MS, GA, and NC) will be presented.

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9182 VipCot™ Performance in Advanced Experimental Lines