Sweet Corn

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Committed to Excellence
from the field to the table
We are committed to helping growers get the most from their
crops, both now and for generations to come. Partnering
with our customers every step of the way, we offer advanced,
innovative solutions that provide growers with the tools they
need in the field to ultimately put the food on the table. After
all, our job is about helping customers deliver high-quality,
nutritious vegetables to the market. We leverage our rich history
in the industry, strong presence in the market and significant
investment in the future of agriculture to help you do just that.

Partnering for
Success
Our roots in the vegetable industry run deep, tracing
back to 1876 with the establishment of ROGERS®
brand seed. For more than 130 years, we have worked
boot-to-boot with our vegetable customers to provide
a truly cutting edge, individualized approach to solution
building. Our integrated portfolio of seed, traits, seed
care and crop protection products support your crop at
each stage of development, from seed to harvest, and
each stage of the market, from packer to plate.

Addressing Whole-farm Challenges

We believe that, to be successful, sustainable agriculture metrics must be integrated into day-
to-day operations and decision-making, and that the value of doing this must exceed the cost.
Through our AgriEdge Excelsior® program, we’re providing growers with data-rich, whole-farm
management tools that help them make agronomically sound decisions, operate more efficiently
and meet sustainable sourcing demands.
Innovating for the Future
Backed by global resources and a daily investment of more than $3 million in research and development, we bring to market
innovative, integrated solutions that help ensure your high-value vegetable crops reach their full genetic potential. Our state-of-the-
art research facilities located across the U.S. are incubators for innovation in the field and in the marketplace, helping to ensure that
we’re providing growers with the tools they need to put food on the table.

Pasco Seed Processing Facility

This 40-acre, 200,000 square foot state-of-the-art facility Vero Beach Research Center
processes both large-seeded and small-seeded vegetables.
This industry-leading facility combines the latest
It houses a unique, two-pass drying system that most
technologies with practical, hands-on field testing.
closely resembles natural drying in the field. Seed is stored
The 12-month growing season allows scientists to
within optimal parameters of temperature and humidity,
generate multiple seasons of field data per year.
ensuring a consistent supply of high-quality seed.

Syngenta Research
Stations

Syngenta Seed
Processing Facilities

Woodland Research Station

This station serves as a hub for cereal, corn, cucurbit Naples Research Station
and fruiting vegetable research in the California
This station lies just south of the frost line in Florida,
Central Valley and is home to the Syngenta Cucurbit
allowing two generations per year of most crops. It
Research Center of Excellence.
includes more than 100 open-field acres and contains
more than 60,000 square feet of greenhouse space, as
well as controlled growth environments and laboratories.

Supporting the Industry

Our commitment to customer satisfaction extends beyond solutions,
service, and support – it’s an investment in the future success of the
industry as well. We are proud to work closely with industry organizations,
such as the American Seed Trade Association (ASTA), California Association
of Pest Control Advisers (CAPCA), Produce for Better Health, Produce
Marketing Association and United Fresh Produce Association, as an Proud To

advocate for sustainable vegetable production and consumption.

Support FFA
Superior supersweets: proven performance and yields

GSS1477 GSS3071
Among supersweets, GSS1477 leads the industry for yield and recovery. It stands out • Long ear ideal for processing
for its superior consumer appeal for both canned and frozen sweet corn. • Market-leading yield and recovery
• Supersweet flavor and excellent kernel
• Excellent emergence; good husk cover; • Well suited for all planting slots color for strong consumer appeal
well-rounded disease package • Finishes strong late in season relative • Widely adapted for a variety of
• Market-leading yield and recovery to other hybrids growing conditions
• Versatile hybrid suitable for cut, cob or
• Finishes strong late in the season
cobette; deep kernels throughout season
relative to other varieties

GSS3951 GSS1453
A main-season supersweet variety, GSS3951 offers improved tolerance to stress • Full-season, yellow supersweet hybrid
conditions to help ensure high yield and recovery. With ideal supersweet kernels • Industry-leading disease
and good eating quality, GSS3951 provides excellent consumer appeal. resistance package
• Good husk coverage to protect ear quality
• Premium supersweet variety with • Balance of sweet and natural • Heavy leaf canopy limits weed growth
large kernels corn flavors
• Long, big ears with average length
• Performs well in high stress tolerant more than 8 inches
conditions
• High yield and case recovery
Protégé SS Jubilee Plus
Protégé is ideal for all processor regions, including organic, with improved rust • Industry standard for high consumer
resistance and abundant yield production of desired quality and color with excellent appeal
rowing for cob and cobette. • Versatile product for canned, frozen,
cob/cobette and dehydrated powder
• Strong roots/stalks to resist lodging • High-quality canned whole kernel
and frozen whole kernel • Wide range of plant populations; can
• Outstanding early vigor double ear at lower plant populations;
• Superior multiple disease package • Good quality for early planting; fits
early- or mid- planting slot; widely • Consistent high yield
• Consistent high yield throughout season • Excellent yield and recovery
adapted
• Replaces GSS9299 • Plant in optimum conditions; monitor
disease and control as necessary

GSS7877 Overland
A yellow supersweet hybrid that produces consistent, abundant yields. It offers • Heavy leaf canopy limits weed growth
strong northern corn leaf blight resistance and husk protection to maximize yields • High yield and case recovery
and quality.
• Acceptable quality for both canned
• Good seedling vigor; excellent husk • Very long, uniform ears; good field and frozen
cover to protect ear holding capability; straight rowing • High row count with 8.5-inch ear
• Develops kernel depth slowly; monitor for • Monitor rust and spray as needed
optimum harvest timing
BSS8040 GSS0951
With high yields and well-filled ears, BSS8040 has good color contrast, excellent • Protégé type with added benefit
consumer appeal and is well-suited for the processor market. of Attribute insect protection and
herbicide tolerance
• Well-filled, attractive ears with good • Widely adapted • Consistent high yields
color contrast • High-quality canned and frozen • Produces quality canned whole
• Excellent disease package product kernel and frozen whole kernel
• Strong performer with consistently • Strong consumer appeal • Good disease package
high yields
• Strong roots/stalks to resist lodging
• Widely adapted for variety of growing
conditions

WSS 3681 GSS0952 Heavenly

• SS Jubilee-type quality in white sh2 • Built-in insect protection to maximize • Consistent yields
• Widely adapted; performs well across yields and profitability • High-quality finished product
plant populations • Herbicide tolerance allows for • Desirable processor color
• Plant in optimum conditions; monitor flexibility in weed management
• Medium-deep kernels
disease and control as necessary • Well-filled cylindrical ears with very
• Plant at higher populations to
good tip fill and kernel depth
reduce tillers
• Widely adapted and can be planted
throughout the season
Best in the sugary class: yield, disease and traits

Poast herbicide tolerance

GH3333 GH4927
• Great disease package in a high-quality GH4927 starts strong and finishes strong with top-performing yields and consistent
hybrid recovery, plus it features variety of qualities for the processing market.
• Sturdy clean plant
• Highest level cob and kernel quality with • Industry standard for second-early • Poast herbicide tolerance
good color sugary types • Excellent for cut, cob and cobette;
• Holds tenderness for the longest of any • Very high yield for its maturity class; features attractive, medium-sized cut
sugary hybrid strong early vigor kernels with great consumer appeal

Key benefits
to using Poast
Protected
sweet corn
• High level of crop safety
• Controls wild proso millet
and many other difficult-
to-control grassy weeds
GH6462
• Only Poast Protected
GH6462 is a high yielding sweet corn variety that combines a strong disease
resistance package with ideal late maturity and versatile processing characteristics. sweet corn can
tolerate the application
• Superior yields with outstanding case • Features attractive, medium-sized cut of Poast herbicide
recovery kernels with great consumer appeal;
• Versatile hybrid suitable for cut, cob very similar to GH4927
or cobette
GH 9597 Early Cogent
GH 9597 is a strong performer even in stressful growing conditions with excellent • The shoepeg class industry standard
resistance to rust and other yield-robbing diseases. • Late-season variety
• Both Rp1-d and Rp1-g genes for • Monitor disease pressure and spray
• Uniform ear size for high plant
resistance to common rust as needed
efficiency
• Strong overall disease package • Desirable, consistent color
• Superior resistance to root and • Performs well when placed in stressful
stalk lodging growing environments; strong disease
• Consistent yield and recovery package

Poast herbicide tolerance Poast herbicide tolerance

WH1428P Rocker
WH1428P is the new standard for white sugary sweet corn. This excellent, full- • Strong roots and stalks to minimize
season variety also includes a well-rounded disease resistance package and Poast® lodging; tolerant to Poast herbicide
herbicide tolerance. • Outstanding quality in late summer;
holds well in field for cream-style
• A WH2801 replacement with • An excellent performing full-season processing; uniform ear size
Poast herbicide tolerance and white variety
rust resistance • Adjust planting populations downward
• Well-rounded disease package for later planting dates; best results
when used in mid to mid-late slot
Yield Accelerator Paves Way for Sweet Corn Advancement
Located in Stanton, Minn., the Syngenta Yield Accelerator is a small-
scale, state of the art yield, recovery and sample processing facility that
integrates automation, weighing, husking, cutting and canning/freezing
technologies. The facility can screen up to 18,000 samples per season
with analysis conducted at each step, evaluating everything from ear
diameter to moisture to taste.
This industry-leading, globally-funded initiative shifts the Syngenta sweet
corn breeding program focus from predominately agronomic traits to
a wider, more intense analysis of genetics in order to reach maximum
processing yield potential. The research and work being done at the Yield
Accelerator will benefit both the grower and processor by increasing both
green yield and recovery, which will ultimately mean more cases per ton.

Focused Innovation to
Syngenta is committed to helping you produce the highest-
quality crop possible, delivering advanced, integrated

Meet Grower Needs solutions that combine our industry-leading seed, trait,
seedcare and crop protection offerings.

Attribute® trait stack delivers built-in, season-long protection Cruiser® seed treatment insecticide offers growers immediate
against European corn borer, corn earworm and other target protection against early-season insects. Thiamethoxam, the
pests, reducing ear damage and yield loss while also reducing active ingredient in Cruiser, helps to improve plant stands and
dependency on insecticides. With tolerance to Liberty® her- can help maximize yield potential. Delivered on-the-seed, Cruiser
bicide, Attribute varieties also offers greater flexibility in weed offers a convenient way to get crops off to a successful start.
management to help ensure control of problem weeds.

Besiege® foliar insecticide combines two active ingredients in

The Attribute II trait stack continues the Syngenta tradition
® a convenient, economical premix formulation to provide fast
of providing high performance traits to sweet corn growers, knockdown and long-lasting residual activity on key lepidopteran
and now it has the added power of Vip3A – a unique mode of pests, as well as effective control of multiple stink bug species.
action proprietary to Syngenta. The combination of Vip3A with Besiege delivers consistent, high-level control in vegetable crops,
Cry1Ab, the protein found in Attribute sweet corn varieties, including those with emerging pyrethroid resistance.
offers excellent control of key yield-robbing insects including
European corn borer, corn earworm and fall armyworm and
Western bean cutworm.
Quilt Xcel® fungicide elevates sweet corn to its full yield
potential by shielding plants from stress. With Quilt Xcel,
plants are able to counteract conditions of too little or too
Powered by mesotrione, an HPPD mode of action and the much water while maximizing the sun’s energy for extended
foundation of Callisto Plant Technology®, Callisto® herbicide grain fill. Quilt Xcel provides preventive and curative disease
delivers unmatched contact and residual control of the control and the systemic xylem mobility of its active
toughest broadleaf weeds, flexible application timing and ingredient provides uniform disease control throughout the
excellent crop safety. plant, even to new growth.
Technical data: sweet corn
Variety Type Kernel Approximate Average ear Average row Average Poast Disease resistance*
color days to length x count kernel depth herbicide
maturity diameter (mm) tolerance
SUPERSWEET

GSS0951 sh2 Yellow 77 8.3 x 1.9 18 11-12 – HR: Ps: (Rp1-i)

IR: Bm / Ps
Protégé sh2 Yellow 77 8.2 x 1.9 18 12 – HR: Bm / Et / Ps: (Rp1-i)
IR: Ps / Pst
GSS3071 sh2 Yellow 78 8.3 x 2 18 12-13 – HR: Bm / Ps: (Rp1-d), Ps: (Rp1-i) /
Pst / MDMV: A
IR: Et
Heavenly sh2 White 78 8 x 1.9 16 12 – HR: Ps: (Rp1-d)
IR: Bm / MDMV: A
Krispy King sh2 Yellow 78 8 x 1.9 20 12-13 – IR: Et

GSS1477 sh2 Yellow 79 8.5 x 1.9 16-18 12 – HR: Bm / Et / Ps: (Rp1-d)

IR: MDMV: A / Ps / Pst
BSS8040 sh2 Bicolor 81 8 x 1.9 16-18 11-12 – HR: Bm / Ps: (Rp1-d) / Pst
IR: Et
GSS3951 sh2 Yellow 81 8.5 x 2 18 13 – HR: Ps: (Rp1-d) / Ps: (Rp1-İ)
IR: Et / MDMV:A
Magnum II sh2 Yellow 81 8.5 x 1.9 16-18 12 – HR: Et
IR: Bm / Ps / Pst
SS Jubilee Plus sh2 Yellow 83 8.5 x 1.9 16-20 11-12 – HR: Ps: (Rp1-d), Ps
IR: Bm
WSS 3681 sh2 White 83 8.6 x 1.9 18-20 11-12 – HR: Ps: (Rp1-d), Ps
IR: Bm
GSS1453 sh2 Yellow 84 8.5 x 2 18 11-12 – HR: Et / Ps: (Rp1-d), Ps: (Rp1-g),
Ps: (Rp1-i)
Overland sh2 Yellow 84 8.5 x 2 18-20 11-12 – HR: Et / Ps: (Rp1-i) / Pst
IR: Bm / Ps
GSS0952 sh2 Yellow 86 8.5 x 2 18 11-12 – HR: Et / Ps: (Rp1-i)
IR: Ps / Pst
GSS7877 sh2 Yellow 81 9x2 16-18 12 HR: Ps: (Rp1-g), Ps: (Rp1-i) / MDMV: A
IR: Bm / Et / Pst
Technical data: sweet corn
Variety Type Kernel Approximate Average ear Average row Average Poast Disease resistance*
color days to length x count kernel depth herbicide
maturity diameter (mm) tolerance
SUGARY

GH4927 su Yellow 75 8.5 x 1.9 16-20 11-12 yes HR: Ps: (Rp 1-i)
IR: Bm
GH9394 su Yellow 79 7.9 x 1.9 18 12 HR: Ps: (Rp1-l) / MDMV: A

GH3333 su Golden 81 7.9 x 1.9 18 12 HR: Ps: (Rp1-d), Ps (Rp1-l) / Pst /

yellow MDMV: A

GH6462 su Yellow 83 8.2 x 1.8 18-20 12 – HR: Ps: (Rp1-d), Ps: (Rp1-g)
IR: Bm / MDMV: A / Pst
GH 9597 su Yellow 83 8 x 1.8 18-20 11 – HR: MDMV: A / Ps: (Rp1-d),
Ps: (Rp1-g), Ps / Pst
IR: Et
WH1428P su White 84 8.2 x 1.9 18-20 13 yes HR: Bm / Ps: (Rp1-d), Ps: (Rp1-i)
IR: Et / Pst
Elite su Yellow 85 9.5 x 1.9 20 11 – HR: Ps: (Rp1-d)
IR: MDMV: A / Ps
Rocker su Yellow 85 8.5 x 1.9 18-20 11 yes HR: Bm / MDMV: A / Ps: (Rp1-d),
Ps: (Rp1-g)
Early Cogent su White 89 8.5 x 2 N/A 13 – None reported

Disease abbreviation key

Bm Southern corn leaf blight caused by MDMV Maize dwarf mosaic virus se Sugary enhanced
Bipolaris maydis (= Helminthosporium
Ps Common rust caused by Puccinia sorghi sh2 Supersweet
maydis)
(Rp1-d, e, g, i) controlled by the Rp1-d,
su Sugary
Et Northern corn leaf blight caused by e, g, and i genes (see *footnote below)
Exserohilum turcicum HR High resistance
Pst Stewart’s wilt caused by Pantoea
(= Helminthosporium turcicum)
stewartii (= Erwinia stewartii) IR Intermediate resistance

*Footnote to sweet corn: the effectiveness of rust resistance genes in sweet corn will be determined by the variation of common rust races in each growing
environment. Rust races are continually evolving, so that rust resistance genes that were effective in the past may suddenly and unexpectedly lose their effectiveness.
It is necessary to scout for rust disease development, so that alternative disease control strategies can be deployed in the event that major gene resistance proves
ineffective. Syngenta Seeds is an associate member of the International Seed Federation and supports the initiative to use consistent terminology to describe plant
diseases and resistance. For further information, see http://www.worldseed.org/isf/diseases_resistance.html.
In cases where specific races or strains are not noted, the variety is resistant to some, but not necessarily all known races or strains of the pathogen. For complete
disease resistance information, please visit www.vegetables.syngenta-us.com.
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Product performance assumes disease presence.

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check with your local extension service to ensure registration status. Seed products with the LibertyLink (LL) trait are resistant to the herbicide glufosinate
ammonium, an alternative to glyphosate in corn, and combine high-yielding genetics with the powerful, non-selective, postemergent weed control of Liberty herbicide
for optimum yield and excellent weed control.
Besiege is a Restricted Use Pesticide.
Besiege is highly toxic to bees exposed to direct treatment on blooming crops and weeds. Do not apply this product or allow it to drift onto blooming plants while
bees are foraging adjacent to the treatment area.
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