Rat feeding studies with genetically modified maize - a comparative evaluation of applied methods and risk assessment standards

Environmental Sciences Europe

Table 3 Information on relevance of reference varieties used by Monsanto[12] for the US corn production

Reference variety	Summary of internet search^a
Campbells 6995	No relevant information available
Cropplan Genetics 461	No relevant information available
Crows 363	No relevant information available
DK537	Indication of use ten and more years ago
DK537	Parental line of Yield Gard rootworm corn Dekalb DKC53-29
DK539	Indication of use ten and more years ago
DK539	Described as ‘widely adapted’ by Dekalb in 1999
Pioneer 3394	Highly successful corn variety until 1995, dominating the US corn belt
Pioneer 3394	After causing high economic losses in 95/96 due to very low resistance to Gray leaf spot fungi, the planting of this variety ceased

^aInternet search was performed on 12 December 2012 with Google and key words < ‘name’ AND corn > as well as < ‘name’ AND corn AND acreage >.