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It has only been three years since Limagrain Cereal Seeds and the Colorado Wheat Research Foundation rolled out the first wheat varieties of the CoAXium wheat production system, introducing wheat with tolerance to Aggressor herbicide for the control of grassy weeds, but the program is growing fast with more than a dozen lines from several breeding programs and seed providers available to plant in the fall of 2020 and more in development.
The Axigen trait was developed by Colorado State and is managed by the Colorado Wheat Research Foundation. As a public trait, it belongs to the farmers of Colorado and can be licensed to any breeding program. Seed companies that don’t have a breeding program, including WinField United, which has CoAXium varieties in its Croplan brand and Nutrien, have also signed commercialization agreements to market CoAXium varieties.
Introgression agreements for breeding with the Axigen trait are in place at Kansas State University and the University of Nebraska and the Oklahoma State University...