Abstract
As data on the 1997 harvests are being analyzed, agricultural biotechnology-based firms are already moving the next generation of transgenic crops to market. Corn is getting a big push right now. The major ag biotech firms are suing each other (C&EN, Nov. 10, page 6) even as they are expanding their technology and marketing bases. Monsanto, for example, acquired control of Sementes Agroceres, Brazil's leading seed corn company, in late November. And AgrEvo, the Hoechst and Schering joint venture, signed up Garst Seed Co. of Minneapolis to sell corn engineered to be resistant both to insects and AgrEvo's Liberty (glufosinate) herbicide. DowElanco, a subsidiary of Dow Chemical, has joined with Seed Genetics of Indianapolis to market corn hybrids with high oil content. Both DowElanco and AgrEvo anticipate sales beginning in 1998. Already on the market are insect-resistant corn varieties from Monsanto, Novartis, DeKalb Genetics, and Mycogen. Results of Monsanto's first commercial field trials of its ...
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