Historically, PIP crops expressing insecticidal control traits have helped to manage primary lepidopteran and coleopteran pests of field corn in the United States for nearly 30 years. Prior to the development of PIP field corn, growers relied on a range of insecticides to manage economically significant pests and benefited significantly from the introduction of the first commercialized Bt event, Cry1Ab, in 1996.  The sustained use of these insecticidal corn traits in the US against multiple primary pests of corn has seen great successes, providing environmental benefits and economic gains for growers but has also seen great challenges presented by evolution of pest resistance to these traits that make stewarding these technologies and developing new technologies a priority.

This presentation will broadly outline pre-commercial considerations for the development and registration of new PIP products and discuss post-commercialization stewardship of PIP products using corn borers and corn rootworm as to highlight successes, challenges, and essential learnings.

Speaker: Matthew Carroll, Bayer CropScience

Biography: Coming soon.