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Concerns of Seed Company Officials with Herbicide-Tolerant Cultivars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

Donald N. Duvick
Donald N. Duvick*
Affiliation:
Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc., Des Moines, IA 50309
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Abstract

The primary aim of seed companies is to provide products that the customer wants to buy, and to sell them at a profit. Future demands for improved cultivars of major field crops will continue to be primarily for those with reliably high yield and desirable quality. Herbicide tolerance will not be a primary determinant in cultivar choice for most customers. Therefore, seed companies probably will move with caution in development of herbicide-tolerant cultivars.

Keywords

Customer demandenvironmental acceptabilitygenetic transformationprofitability
Type
Symposium
Information
Weed Technology , Volume 6 , Issue 3 , September 1992 , pp. 640 - 646
Copyright
Copyright © 1990 by the Weed Science Society of America 

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