PhytoGen Adds New High Yielding Variety for 2022
December 13, 2021 PhytoGen, the U.S. cottonseed brand of Corteva Agriscience, is releasing PHY 411 W3FE, a new broadly adapted, high yielding variety, for 2022.
When asked why the PhytoGen team chose to advance the variety, U.S. Cotton Portfolio Manager Joel Faircloth had a one-word answer: “Yield.”
“This particular variety surpassed our high standards for yield, in addition to good fiber quality and our legendary early season vigor, said Faircloth. “In 2020 PhytoGen Upland breeder trials, PHY 411 W3FE outyielded all varieties by 50 lbs./A and beat the trial average by 150 lbs./A!
“Yes, the numbers were exactly 50 and 150 pounds.”
With an increased concentration on yield, PhytoGen cottonseed has been gaining market share and is now the second-most-planted brand in the United States.
“PHY 411 W3FE sets a new bar on yield,” noted Faircloth. “In on-farm trials with the PhytoGen Horizon Network collaborators, it shows a yield superior to what the market currently offers today, and it carries all our PhytoGen Breeding Traits for advanced yield protection.”
PHY 411 W3FE has a very broad area of adaptation and performs well throughout the upland-growing regions – and carries the PhytoGen Breeding Traits for bacterial blight resistance and both root-knot-nematode and reniform nematode resistance. PhytoGen W3FE varieties also provide growers with flexible and effective weed control options with tolerances to Enlist herbicides, Liberty herbicide (glufosinate), and glyphosate.
“After yield, one of the biggest advantages of PhytoGen W3FE varieties is better weed control that stays where it’s sprayed, thanks to the Enlist weed control system,” Faircloth said. “Plus, the Enlist system is more compatible with many other crops across the Cotton Belt such as soybeans, peanuts, and tobacco.”
PHY 411 W3FE rounds out the PhytoGen portfolio of high-yield-potential varieties released last spring – PHY 205 W3FE, PHY 332 W3FE, PHY 443 W3FE, and PHY 545 W3FE. Those varieties will be commercially available in larger quantities in 2022 to help meet high demand across the Cotton Belt.
Faircloth said pending final performance data, the PhytoGen team may advance additional varieties in early 2022.
“Our breeding pipeline is robust, and we will continue adding high-yield-potential varieties to our already remarkable portfolio,” Faircloth said.
For more information, growers are encouraged to contact their local sales team or go to PhytoGen.com. They may also opt in for the Best Yielder e-newsletter for more details on variety updates and management tips.
Based on information provided by PhytoGen Cottonseed
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