Pioneer to sell glyphosate-tolerant soybean
Pioneer Hi-Bred International announced that it’s on track to commercialize by 2009 a biotech soybean product that will compete with the Roundup Ready trait sold by Monsanto, according to this St. Louis Post-Dispatch article appearing on Checkbiotech.
The company is seeking permission to sell soybean seeds genetically modified to tolerate glyphosate herbicide, which Monsanto sells as Roundup; as well as ALS herbicides. These would be marketed as Optimum GAT seeds.
