US-based biotechnology company Athenix Corp. has announced that field trials for its new glyphosate-tolerant corn have shown good results. The company claims that its new class of genes can withstand at least eight times the standard field rate of glyphosate recommended for existing glyphosate-resistant corn. The field trials also demonstrated that corn lines survived multiple sprays of glyphosate at different stages of their life cycle.
The company has filed for broad patent protection of the technology and hopes to move the product through development and registration as quickly as possible. A regulatory package for corn containing one of its new genes is expected to be submitted in the US in late 2008. Soybean varieties containing the glyphosate tolerant gene are also being developed and the company hopes to commence testing of these varieties soon.
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