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SEMINIS SWEET CORN

JAMES GILLUM – MIDWEST TDR

•Technology Development Representative: – Midwest Region: IL, IN, OH, MI, WI & MN.

– Crops Covered: Sweet Corn, Beans, Tomatoes, Peppers, Cucumber, Squash, Melons, Onions & Carrots.

•Evaluate pre-commercial hybrids for adaptability and stability across varied production environments to develop data packages that verifies progress toward breeding goals.

– Agronomic and quality traits – Standability, husk protection, darker green husk color, attractive flag leaves, less

tillering and early maturity.

– Increased yield

– Consistent tip fill, consistent marketable ear size, fewer unmarketable ears.

– Eating quality

– equal to or better than Obsession for tender pericarp and sugars.

– Disease resistance

– Comparison of expression resistance trait vs non-resistant hybrids for disease incidence and severity.

Technology Development Representative

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Breeding Advancement Model

3 Pool of possible crosses

Field observations & New data

Progeny row data

SC1 data

SC2 data

PCM1 data

PCM2 data

PCM3

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PCM4

data

New Commercial

Products

Key Products

Selection among

populations

Selection

among & within

crosses

Selection

among hybrids

Selection

among products

Selection

among parents

Selection

among testers

Inbred Advancement

Hybrid

Advancement

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High Quality Bicolor

• Obsession (HR: Rp1D*; IR: Et/Pst)

– Standard for eating quality and yield.

– 81 Day Maturity.

• EX0876 7143 (HR: RpG*+Rp1D*; IR: Et/Pst)

– Improved husk color, tip cover and healthier plant than Obsession.

– Appears to have better field holding ability & handle stress better than

Obsession.

– 81 Day Maturity.

• 12-6S-QHB-1643 *2014 Launch

– Earliness (estimate 76 – 77 days to maturity).

– Exceptional eating quality.

Seminis Conventional Sweet Corn

Pipeline

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Seminis Pipeline High Quality Bicolor

12-6S-QHB-1643

7143

EX0876 7143

Bicolor • Obsession II High Quality Bicolor (HR: Rp1D*; IR: Et/Pst)

– Offers protection against Corn Earworm, Fall Army Worm, Corn Root Worm with Round-up technology.

– Improved yield potential.

– 81 day mat.

• SV9010SA (7143) High Quality Bicolor (HR: RpG + Rp1D; IR: Et/Pst) – High yield potential.

– Appears to have better field holding ability/handles stress better than Obsession.

– 81 day mat.

• SV9014SB (1273) Synergistic Bicolor (HR: RpG; IR: Et/Pst) 2014 Launch – Exceptional eating quality.

– Nice husk package – dark green provides good protection.

– 77 – 78 day maturity.

Yellow • Passion II High Quality Yellow (HR: Rp1D*; IR: Et/Pst)

– Offers protection against Corn Earworm, Fall Army Worm, Corn Root Worm with Round-up technology.

– Improved yield potential.

– 81 day mat. • SV9012SD (1336) High Quality Yellow (HR: RpG) 2014 Launch

– Very high yield potential. – 83 day mat.

Seminis Performance Series Sweet Corn

Pipeline

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2011 Performance SeriesTM Trials

Passion Seminis Performance Series™ Passion II

with Roundup on top for weed control

Any Questions?

Monsanto Company Confidential

What is Bt?

•Bt is short for Bacillus thuringiensis, a type of bacteria found naturally in soil.

•This species of bacteria produces various proteins, some of which are toxic to caterpillars of certain moths and butterflies (Lepidoptera), or to larvae of certain beetles (Coleoptera).

•Bt proteins are considered environmentally friendly pesticides because they are toxic only to specific types of insect larvae, and break down to non-toxic substances when exposed to sunlight.

What is Bt Sweet Corn?

•Bt sweet corn refers to sweet corn hybrids that have been genetically enhanced using biotechnology to contain one or more genes that produce Bt proteins.

• In Bt sweet corn, the protein(s) are produced throughout the plant: leaves, stalks, pollen, and roots.

•The main targets of the protein(s) may be the European corn borer and other Lepidopteran pests, or corn rootworm beetles.

European corn borer moth, left, and egg mass, right.

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Cry3Bb

Plant produces a Bt protein

Insect ingests protein

High pH breaks down the protein to

active protoxin

Protoxin activated by specific enzyme

and attaches to gut cell wall

Cell wall of the gut is destroyed

Insect stops eating, and gut

bacteria kills the insect

How does Bt protect a plant?

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Sources: Galitsky et al. (2001), U.S. Patent Applications 2009/0205087(A1) and 2008/085856(A1)

Here is a good visual from UC-San Diego: http://www.bt.ucsd.edu/movies/howwork.swf

Monsanto Company Confidential

Recommendations for corn earworm

control?

•Monitor moth flights – pheromone traps are best option.

•Make preventive sprays when CEW is anticipated.

•Scout fields for eggs, larvae, signs of damage.

• If ANY damage from CEW is observed, get on a regular spray

schedule.

•Multiple applications likely to be required as hatching continues.

•Rotate insecticide modes of action.

Each female can lay up to 2000 eggs over 2wk

Neonates can move from the silk to the kernels in less than one hour

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Develop high yielding hybrids with excellent eating quality, strong agronomic and consumer traits and improved resistance to common rust, NCLB, and MDMV.

•Stack resistances to multiple diseases and in some cases stack multiple resistance genes to a single disease.

•Extensive use of molecular markers to accelerate the conversion process.

•Monsanto’s molecular marker capabilities will accelerate our improvements.

•Biotech versions of new commercial varieties will bring increased performance, value and sustainability to the grower.

Breeding Program Objectives

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Disease Resistance Breeding • Improve polygenic resistance when possible.

• Backcross single gene resistances into inbred lines to provide high level resistance.

• Stack resistances to multiple diseases and in some cases stack multiple resistance genes to a single disease.

• Extensive use of molecular markers to accelerate the conversion process.

Molecular Markers • Accelerate breeding progress.

• Greatly reduce time required for inbred conversion.

• Enables selecting for disease when no disease is present.

• Seed chip technology offers increased efficiency and time savings.

Double Haploid Breeding • DH is a method to create “instant inbreds”. Reduces to create hybrids by 2 – 4 years.

Biotech Conversions • Female lines submitted to conversion early in breeding process so biotech versions are available within 1 –

2 years of conventional hybrid release.

• Extensive version selection & equivalency testing.

• Efficacy testing to ensure that the traits are working.

Breeding Strategies

Strong commitment to develop improved hybrids

through germplasm improvement. • Increased yield

• Eating quality

• Disease resistance

• Agronomic and quality traits

Monsanto’s molecular marker capabilities will accelerate

our improvements.

Biotech hybrids will bring increase performance, value and

sustainability to the grower.

Sweet Corn Breeding Summary

High Quality Yellow

•Passion (HR: Rp1D*; IR: Et/Pst)

•SV1077SD (HR: RpG + Rp1D; IR: Et/Pst) • Improved rust resistance over Passion

• Earliness

– 2 days earlier Passion

– 1 day earlier Garrison (SYN)

• Equal yield to Passion with improved husk package

• Improved eating quality

• 79 Days to Maturity

•12-6S-QHY-1619 • Earliness (75 Days to Maturity)

Seminis Sweet Corn Pipeline

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Seminis Sweet Corn Pipeline High Quality Yellow

SV1077SD

High Quality White

•Devotion (IR: Pst) • 82 Days to Maturity

•QHW6RH 1229 (HR: Rp1D*; IR: Et/Pst) • Great tip fill & eating quality

• Easy to pull

• 83 Days to Maturity

•SV1580SC (HR: RpG + Rp1D; verifying IR: Et/Pst) • White EX0876 7143

• Strong plant

• High quality ear with excellent husk package and easy to pull ear

• 80 Days to Maturity

Seminis Sweet Corn Pipeline

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Seminis Sweet Corn Pipeline High Quality White

QHW6RH 1229

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