GlyTol™ and GlyTol™ + LibertyLink® Cotton Performance – a US Cotton Belt Perspective

Bayer CropScience has developed in-house glyphosate tolerant GlyTol™ cotton and stacks of GlyTol™ with LibertyLink^® cotton.  Contingent upon regulatory approval, GlyTol™ cotton is planned for commercial release in 2009 and will provide US cotton growers with new cotton varieties with season-long tolerance to various formulations of glyphosate herbicide.  Glytol™ ⁺ LibertyLink^® cotton is planned for commercial release in 2010, pending regulatory approval, and will provide US cotton growers with new cotton varieties with season-long tolerance to glyphosate herbicides as well as tolerance to Ignite^® herbicide. 

 Extensive field testing of GlyTol™ cotton was conducted internally and with University cotton specialists and weed scientists from 2006-2008 and with GlyTol™ + LibertyLink^® in 2008.  Results of the replicated field trials conducted with GlyTol and GlyTol™ + LibertyLink^® technology cotton across the United States cotton belt will be presented.