Monsanto’s biotechnology cotton pipeline seeks to provide benefits to the farmer though herbicide tolerance, insect protection and tolerance to environmental stress. Our breeding research in cotton strives to develop and deliver value through yield, fiber quality and tolerance to environmental stress.
2013 Pipeline Advancements
Dicamba-and Glufosinate-Tolerant Cotton (Advanced to Phase 4)
Dicamba-and Glufosinate-Tolerant Cotton would represent Monsanto’s first stack of herbicide-tolerant technologies in cotton, containing Genuity® Roundup Ready Flex® stacked with dicamba-and glufosinate-tolerance for three unique modes of action. Part of the Roundup Ready® Xtend Crop System, this would provide cotton growers with the most effective weed management system available. Learn More »
Root Knot Nematode Resistance in Cotton (Advanced to Phase 4)
Root Knot Nematode Resistance technology in cotton can reduce root knot nematode populations by 60 percent. When combined with seed treatments, the system can provide enhanced seedling vigor, resistance management, and season-long protection against root knot nematodes. These new cotton varieties would offer more uniform, stable growing performance than is currently available. Learn More »
Next-Generation Genuity® Bollgard® Cotton (Advanced to Phase 1)
Next-Generation Genuity® Bollgard® Cotton is designed to enhance the insect protection in earlier Bollgard products. This next-generation technology would provide season-long protection with multiple modes of action against key lepidopteran pests in cotton fields worldwide. Learn More »
| Drought-Tolerant Cotton |
| Yield and stress pipeline – Phase 2 |
| The first-generation drought-tolerant cotton trait is designed to deliver improved water use in cotton by providing yield stability in environments experiencing occasional or consistent water stress and reduce water needs on irrigated acres. It is an additional tool to be utilized as part of an overall system in conjunction with genetics and agronomics practices in improving overall water productivity. |
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| Dicamba- and Glufosinate-Tolerant Cotton |
| Agronomic pipeline – Phase 4 |
This product would provide two additional modes of action combined with Genuity Roundup Ready Flex® to provide cotton growers with the most effective weed management system available.
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| Genuity Bollgard III |
| Agronomic pipeline – Phase 3 |
Genuity Bollgard III is a third-generation insect control product that would build on the success of the first and second generation Bollgard products by providing enhanced insect protection, including improved control of beet and fall armyworms, through the use of multiple modes of action. The dual mode-of-action would also provide enhanced, season-long protection.
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| Cotton Lygus Control |
| Agronomic pipeline – Phase 2 |
| The Cotton Lygus Control product would be the first to extend the spectrum of insect control to piercing-sucking Lygus bugs, which damage bolls and reduce lint yield and quality. |
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| Next-Generation Genuity® Bollgard® |
| Agronomic pipeline – Phase 1 |
| Next-Generation Genuity® Bollgard® Cotton is designed to enhance the insect protection in earlier Bollgard products. This next-generation technology would provide season-long protection with multiple modes of action against key lepidopteran pests in cotton fields worldwide. |
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| Root Knot Nematode-Resistant Cotton |
| Breeding Pipeline – Phase 4 |
Root-knot nematode is one of the most economically damaging cotton plant parasites with populations widespread throughout the U.S. Cotton Belt. Marker-assisted breeding techniques are introducing resistance into elite genetics to develop varieties that could potentially increase lint yield under root knot nematode infestations.
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| Reniform Nematode Resistance |
| Breeding Pipeline – Phase 2 |
| Reniform nematodes reduce cotton plant growth and lint yield, and the increasing severity and incidence of infestations is causing concern in the central U.S. Cotton Belt. A new, high-throughput screening method is being utilized to accelerate the incorporation of resistance into elite genetics. |
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