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Acceleron™ Brand Seed Treatments Provide Growers New Seed Performance Technology From Monsanto Company
Helps maximize crop performance potential from the start
St. Louis, Mo. (August 26, 2008) – Monsanto Company announced today it is launching Acceleron™ brand seed treatment as part of the seed treatment platform announced earlier this year. Acceleron brand seed treatments are designed to help maximize crop performance potential beginning at planting. It will provide new seed performance technologies designed to enhance the company’s elite genetics and trait technologies.
Monsanto’s global seed treatment platform complements the company’s seed and trait strategy, as well as its investments in breeding and biotechnology. The platform focuses on identifying new proprietary seed-based technologies that can be launched in parallel with soybean, corn and cotton products. Acceleron will be the brand for these treatments; the introduction to market will be on Roundup Ready 2 Yield® soybeans for the 2009 season.
“We are designing new, unique seed-applied products for use with soybean, corn and cotton products that will offer benefits beyond the typical early season protection from diseases, insects, nematodes and environmental stress,” Tom Schaefer, seed treatment marketing lead explains, “We feel it is more accurate to call Acceleron a seed performance technology.”
Randy Barker, Monsanto’s seed treatment strategy lead, notes that Monsanto, as the industry’s seed and trait technology leader, is uniquely capable of evaluating opportunities for seed performance enhancement across a broad geography for its genetics and trait products.
“We have the expertise of a leader in genetics and traits and with this we will have the opportunity to look at new seed performance technologies early in the development process with the traits and genetics” he explains. “This insight will be a key factor of the success we can achieve on-farm.”
The Acceleron brand will represent a wide range of evolving seed performance technologies. Acceleron will be available when Roundup Ready 2 Yield® soybeans are made available for commercial release and use, Acceleron will be available in SmartStax™ corn in 2010, Deltapine® cotton in 2011 and in other crops in coming seasons.
Farmers have a chance to see the performance of current and potential future Acceleron branded seed treatments at the company’s Agronomic Systems Demonstration Plots at the 2008 Farm Progress Show in Boone, IA and Husker Harvest Days in Grand Island, NE, as well as numerous other field day locations.
Barker added that Acceleron is an example of the ongoing commitment by Monsanto to discover, evaluate and deliver novel products and technologies which can enhance the yield and profitability of farmers. “Our work in the area of Seed Performance Technology will help support the Monsanto objective of doubling yield by 2030.” he said.
Monsanto Company is a leading global provider of technology-based solutions and agricultural products that improve farm productivity and food quality. For more information, please visit: http://www.monsanto.com/.
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When Roundup Ready 2 Yield® soybeans are made available for commercial release and use, they will be subject to Monsanto Company’s comprehensive stewardship plans consistent with its Stewardship Policy for Commercialization of Biotechnology-Derived Plant Products in Commodity Crops. Roundup Ready 2 Yield® soybean seed and any product of a Roundup Ready 2 Yield® soybean seed or crop can only be exported to, or used, processed or sold in countries where all necessary regulatory approvals have been granted. It is a violation of national and international law to move material containing biotech traits across boundaries into nations where import is not permitted. Roundup Ready® crops contain genes that confer tolerance to glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup®agricultural herbicides. Roundup agricultural herbicides will kill crops that are not glyphosate tolerant. SmartStax™ commercialization is dependent on many factors, including successful conclusion of regulatory process. SmartStax™ has not been registered by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. It is a violation of federal law to promote or sell an unregistered pesticide. Acceleron™, Roundup®, Roundup Ready®, Roundup Ready 2 Yield® and SmartStax™ are trademarks of Monsanto Technology LLC. Deltapine®is a trademark of D&PL Technology Holding Company LLC.
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