PhytoGen® Cottonseed Expands Next-Generation Portfolio with Three New Varieties
PhytoGen® cottonseed announces three new varieties for the 2027 season: PhytoGen® brand PHY 362 W3FE, PHY 491 W3FE and PHY 207 W3FE. These new varieties continue to build on the next-level yield and fiber quality potential that PhytoGen brought to cotton growers last year with the advancement of PhytoGen brand PHY 357 W3FE and PHY 433 W3FE.
“With these new varieties for 2027, we continue a new era at PhytoGen cottonseed that began with last year’s product introductions,” said Joel Faircloth, Ph.D., Corteva Portfolio Leader – Cotton. “Our breeders exceeded expectations again by adding three more varieties to our portfolio with breakthrough yield potential and excellent fiber quality.”
PHY 362 W3FE is a broadly adapted, early-mid maturity variety bred to perform across the Cotton Belt. It offers exceptional high-yield potential on both dryland and irrigated acres in the Southeast and Midsouth but is tough enough to excel in dryland fields of the Texas South Plains. It provides excellent fiber quality with very good staple length.
PHY 491 W3FE is a broadly adapted, mid to mid-full maturity variety with high top-end yield potential and premium fiber quality. It’s an especially good fit in the Southeast — Georgia, lower Alabama and South Carolina — where producers prefer longer-season varieties that can push through drought stress.
Faircloth said PHY 362 W3FE and PHY 491 W3FE are extremely versatile varieties that perform consistently well across diverse soil types and varying agronomic conditions. This consistent performance streamlines in-season management and helps stabilize yields across the farm, allowing growers to better plan for each season and help improve their bottom lines. Both varieties come with built-in resistance to bacterial blight, reniform nematodes and root-knot nematodes, protecting plants from yield-robbing pests all season and preserving high yield potential.
These varieties demonstrated excellent yield performance in PhytoGen breeder trials and Official Variety Trials (OVT) last season.
- Across the Cotton Belt, PHY 362 W3FE delivered a 144-pound-per-acre advantage vs. competitors in 2025 university Official Variety Trials.1
- PHY 362 W3FE was No. 1 vs. competitor commercial brand varieties in the 2025 Mississippi State University OVTs and beat Deltapine DP 2127 B3XF by 100 pounds per acre.2
- PHY 491 W3FE won the University of Georgia OVT irrigated trial in Attapulgus, Georgia, yielding 2,434 pounds per acre and beating the top competitor variety in that trial by 194 pounds per acre.3
Faircloth said PHY 362 W3FE and PHY 491 W3FE, with PHY 357 W3FE and PHY 433 W3FE, form the core of the PhytoGen brand portfolio because of their wide adaptability and dependability.
“One or more of those four varieties will fit on any acre of the Cotton Belt, because of their broad fit, disease-resistant traits, and high yield potential,” Faircloth said. “Markets, weather, pests and diseases all fluctuate from season to season, and cotton producers tell us they need reliable cotton varieties they can count on. These varieties provide a firm foundation for U.S. cotton producers to break through production challenges for higher yield potential.”
Break-Through Yield Potential for the High Plains
Bred specifically for the High Plains, PHY 207 W3FE will help cotton producers from Lubbock to Kansas overcome regional challenges. It’s an early maturity variety with an ideal fit on optimally planted cotton acres, while also providing growers an excellent choice for the double-crop wheat acre. PHY 207 W3FE has excellent storm tolerance and dryland toughness to withstand the harsh conditions of the High Plains. It also excels on the high-input irrigated acre, where growers push for top-end yields. PHY 207 W3FE has a naturally higher mic to help growers produce high-quality fiber in the region’s shorter-season environment.
“PhytoGen has a long history of providing varieties uniquely developed for the High Plains, and PHY 207 W3FE is another one that stands up to the agronomic challenges of the region and consistently delivers high yield potential,” Faircloth said. “When our breeders saw this variety rising to the top in our High Plains breeding program, we knew it was one we needed to get into the hands of our customers in the Texas Panhandle, Oklahoma and Kansas.”
PHY 207 W3FE demonstrated excellent yield results in 2025 trials and proved to offer an advantage against competitive varieties in the High Plains, delivering a 48-pound-per-acre yield advantage against FiberMax FM 765AX in 24 trials.4
Growers in the PhytoGen Horizon Network (PHN) planted PHY 362 W3FE, PHY 491 W3FE and PHY 207 W3FE in on-farm trials during the 2026 season. Farmers should contact their local PhytoGen field agronomist to tour a variety trial or to review local yield data after harvest. Faircloth says the PhytoGen team is looking forward to harvest and eager to share yield results from the PHN trials.
“The momentum continues with the release of PHY 362 W3FE, PHY 491 W3FE and PHY 207 W3FE,” Faircloth said. “We’re excited to see harvest results from the PHN farmers and to get these varieties into the hands of more U.S. cotton producers in 2027. There has never been a better time to choose PhytoGen cottonseed.”
To learn more about these varieties, go to PhytoGen.com/New2026.
1Data is based on averages of 2025 individual paired comparisons against commercial brand varieties at 82 locations across the Cotton Belt as of 05/20/2026.
22025 Mississippi State University Cotton Official Variety Trials. One-year mean yield performance and fiber characteristics for OVT varieties submitted for testing in 2025 averaged across all testing locations (8) as of 6/4/26. www.mafes.msstate.edu/variety-trials/docs/cotton/2025-cotton.pdf
3Georgia 2025 Peanut and Cotton Performance Tests. OVT irrigated trial located in Attapulgus, Georgia as of 1/26/26: https://swvt.uga.edu/content/dam/caes-subsite/statewide-variety-testing/docs/performance-trials/2025/cotton-peanut-2025.pdf
4Data is based on averages of 2025 individual paired comparisons against FiberMax FM765AX in 24 internal trials across the Cotton Belt as of 05/20/2026.
Comparisons are against any number of products of the indicated competitor brand unless otherwise stated. Product responses are variable and subject to any number of environmental, disease and pest pressures. Individual results may vary. Multi-year and multi-location data are a better predictor of future performance. Do not use this or any other data from a limited number of trials as a significant factor in product selection. Refer to www.phytogen.com or contact a PhytoGen field team member for the latest and complete listing of traits and scores for each PhytoGen® brand variety.
™ ® Trademarks of Corteva Agriscience and its affiliated companies. © 2026 Corteva