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Understanding the Reason
The move to multi-gene products like Bollgard II® is important from a resistance management perspective. It is critical to preserving the long-term viability of our technology and the benefits realized by our farmer customers in all our key crops – cotton, corn and soybeans.
As you can see in this graph, the two-gene product should have an exponentially longer life than the single trait as it is virtually impossible to develop simultaneous resistance to two different modes of action. If however, resistance to the first gene has occurred prior to taking the single-gene product off of the market, resistance to AB would develop much faster.
