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Product Overview

LH 5517 VT2 PRO performed very well again in its second year in our SuperStrip and MiniStrip programs. Its broadly adapted from Nebraska, across Iowa, and into southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois. It has very good scores against Gosss Wilt, Northern Leaf Blight and Gray Leaf Spot. It has very good stalks and roots with good tolerance to green snap. It has a semi-determinate ear with nice test weight and grain quality. Avoid growth regulator herbicides.

Key Features

  • Maturity 105.0 RM
  • Trait VT2 PRO RIB

Hybrid Advantages

  • Strong performance east to west
  • Responds to fertility and population
  • Nice all-around disease package
  • Very good test weight and grain quality
Field X Field
  • Highly Productive and Irrigated Fields 1
  • Southern Moderately Productive / Average Fields Blight 2
  • Less Productive / Stressed Fields 2
Agronomic Characteristics
  • Emergence 2.0
  • Flowering for Maturity 0.0
  • Early Vigor 2.0
  • Stalk Strength 2.0
  • Root Strength 2.0
  • Stay Green 2.0
  • Drydown 2.5
  • Test Weight 2.0
  • Drought Tolerance 2.5
  • Foliar Fungicide 0.0
  • Herbicide Sensitivity 0.0
  • Suggested Population 32-36
  • Corn-on-Corn 3.0
  • Stress Tolerance 0.0
  • Row Spacing
  • SCN Resistance
Plant Characteristics
  • Plant Height
  • Ear Height Medium
  • Ear Type Semi-Determinate
  • Number of Kernel Rows 14-16
  • Cob Color Red
  • Husk Cover Medium
  • Shank Length Medium Short
  • Leaf Angle Semi-Erect
Disease Ratings
  • Goss's Wilt 2.0
  • Common Rust 2.0
  • Southern Leaf Blight 2.0
  • Northern Leaf Blight 2.0
  • Anthracnose Stalk Rot 2.5
  • Eye Spot 0.0
  • Gray Leaf Spot 2.0
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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