Six GMO Phytase elite commercial corn hybrids have completed production trials

Origin Agritech Ltd., an agriculture technology company based in China, has announced that it is updating shareholders on recent developments out of China regarding the path to GMO commercialization in the country and also on the status of the approval process for its different seed traits.

Origin Agritech commends the government on this move toward GMO positive and stands by ready, as one of the top GMO seed companies in China, to rise to the challenge of supplying farmers with outstanding GMO corn and soybean seeds to facilitate this huge transformation of agriculture in China. These GMO seeds were developed with different traits to increase yields, reduce the need for insecticides, increase herbicide tolerance, salinity tolerance and to make the plant drought tolerant.

Origin Agritech’s various corn and soybean traits include the following:

• GMO Phytase Corn. Six GMO Phytase elite commercial corn hybrids have completed production trials and are waiting for variety approval.
• An herbicide tolerance corn.
• A double stack of insect resistance and herbicide tolerance corn-First Generation.
• A double stack of insect resistance and herbicide tolerance corn-Second Generation.
• An herbicide tolerance soybean. Status: Approaching middle test.