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Product Overview

LH 4450 conventional provides consistent performance across most soil types and cropping sequences. It has excellent stalk and root strength with very good test weight and grain quality. LH 4450 has good east-to-west movement and will move farther south while maintaining plant health.

Key Features

Hybrid Advantages

  • Proven performance across multiple years
  • Excellent drought and greensnap tolerance
  • Very good late-season plant health
  • Great grain quality on a shorter statured hybrid
Field X Field
  • Southern Moderately Productive / Average Fields Blight 1
  • Less Productive / Stressed Fields 1
Agronomic Characteristics
  • Emergence 2.0
  • Flowering for Maturity 0.0
  • Early Vigor 2.4
  • Stalk Strength 2.0
  • Root Strength 2.0
  • Stay Green 2.1
  • Drydown 1.5
  • Test Weight 1.9
  • Drought Tolerance 1.5
  • Foliar Fungicide 0.0
  • Herbicide Sensitivity 0.0
  • Suggested Population 30-34
  • Corn-on-Corn 1.5
  • Stress Tolerance 0.0
  • Row Spacing
  • SCN Resistance
Plant Characteristics
  • Plant Height
  • Ear Height Medium Low
  • Ear Type Determinate
  • Number of Kernel Rows 16-18
  • Cob Color Red
  • Husk Cover Medium
  • Shank Length Medium
  • Leaf Angle Semi-Upright
Disease Ratings
  • Goss's Wilt 2.5
  • Common Rust 1.8
  • Southern Leaf Blight 2.5
  • Northern Leaf Blight 3.0
  • Anthracnose Stalk Rot 0.0
  • Eye Spot 1.9
  • Gray Leaf Spot 2.5
Key
Rating Scale

1 = Excellent; 2 = Very Good; 3 = Good; 4 = Fair; 5 = Poor; N/A = Not Applicable

Herbicide Sensitivity

PI = Pigment Inhibitors; Pre PI = Pigment Inhibitors applied Pre-Emergence; SU = Sulfonylureas; GR = Growth Regulators

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Key
Rating Scale

1 = Excellent; 2 = Very Good; 3 = Good; 4 = Fair; 5 = Poor; N/A = Not Applicable

Phytophthora Root Rot Race Resistance

Resistant varieties carry the major gene reported to be resistant to these races: Rps1-a: 1, 2, 10, 11, 12, 15-18, 24, 26,27; Rps1-k: 1-11, 13-15, 17, 18, 21, 22, 24, 26; Rps6: 1-4, 10, 12, 14-16, 18-21, 25; Rps1-c: 1-3, 6-11, 13, 15, 17, 21, 23, 24, 26; Rps3-a: 1-5, 8, 9, 11, 13, 14, 16, 18, 23, 25

Varieties containing these genes are resistant to the following races of Soybean Cyst Nematode:

Pl88788: F= 3, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14; Peking: P= 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 15

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