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SYT’s Agrisure Duracade, with two mechanisms against corn rootworm, will compete with MON’s SmartStax:

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/usda-approves-agrisure-duracade-corn-060000180.html

Syngenta announced today [2/28/13] that the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has fully deregulated Agrisure Duracade, enabling launch in the US for the 2014 planting season.

Agrisure Duracade expresses a unique protein to control corn rootworm. It has a different mode of action to Syngenta's existing Agrisure RW trait. When combined these traits provide unmatched insect control: USDA data show a tenfold reduction in Western corn rootworm beetle emergence and superior performance against all comparable traits.