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Innovation for Disease Resistance

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FOCUS AREA: Enabling Technologies

Each year, plant diseases cause an estimated 40% yield loss worldwide in the most important food crops.  Our goal at Corteva Agriscience™, Agriculture Division of DowDuPont is to develop robust, sustainable and durable solutions to crop disease problems. Our strategy relies on an integrated approach to disease control:  stacking native disease traits with transgenic traits; applying CRISPR-Cas genome editing technologies to accelerate development of resistant plant lines; combining genetic solutions with chemical and/or biological products for comprehensive control.  We invite public and private sector scientists to join in our efforts with innovative approaches that will help tackle and find solutions to the most important global crop diseases.

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What we are Seeking

  • Novel sources of resistance for controlling economically important corn, soybean, wheat, and canola diseases
  • Methods to accelerate resistance gene discovery
  • Strategies to broaden or enhance resistance gene activity
  • Rapid and/or high throughput methods to screen for resistance gene function
  • Determination of disease resistance mechanisms and mode of action of disease resistance genes
  • Resistance strategies that target critical pathogen factors or their host targets
  • Biologicals for management of disease agents and nematodes
  • Novel approaches to early disease detection and trait efficacy monitoring