AgbioInvestor’s free-to-access service AgbioInvestor GM Monitor has identified the following GM trait approvals up to July 2025. Expanded details on these recently approved traits, as well as for approvals dating back as far as 1992, can be found on AgbioInvestor’s GM Monitor website.

Corteva’s insect resistant soybean COR23134 (COR-23134-4) has been granted a mix of both Food, Food/Feed and Cultivation approvals in Argentina, Australia and New Zealand and in Canada. The COR23134 genetic event contains three genes for lepidopteran insect resistance: cry1B.34, cry1B.61 and ipd083Cb. The cry1B.34 gene has been previously utilised in another Corteva event, DP910521, a maize trait that first received approval in 2023. The cry1B.61 and ipd083Cb genes are novel, with previous ipd-related genes ipd072Aa (found in DP51291 and DP 23211) and ipd079Ea (found in DP915635) resulting in coleopteran insect resistance. The genetic event was inserted through agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated transformation using T-DNA containing the desired genetic information to transfer a segment of T-DNA into host cells, following which successful genetic transformation was screened for using a selectable marker.

COR23134 is notable as the first instance of an event using the prefix COR, indicating that the trait was submitted to registration and regulatory activities by Corteva sometime after in the last 7 years, following the merger of Dow and DuPont. DowDuPont announced its intent to spin out its agriculture division to become Corteva Agriscience in 2018 (see AgbioNews Feb 27, 2018), completing the separation in June 2019 (AgbioNews Jun 3, 2019) with Corteva marketing existing Dow and DuPont crop protection products as well as the seed brands Pioneer, Mycogen and Brevant. This places the new registration in line with the average time taken for Registration & Regulatory Affairs when bringing a genetic trait to commercialisation according to our study “Time and Cost to Develop a New GM Trait” which AgbioInvestor undertook on behalf of Crop Life International. Prior to this, events submitted for regulatory approval by Corteva most commonly contained the prefix DP or DAS, as they were submitted under the Dow or DuPont brands name before the merger of the two companies. The prefix if often used to indicate the original developer of a trait, with events using the MON prefix being developed by Monsanto, which is still an active subsidiary producing traits, the IND prefix relating to Indear and DBN to Beijing Dabeinong Biotechnology.