The heart of this company is in corn genetics and corn breeding. It’s one of the largest markets in the world, and it’s a great opportunity space we are well-positioned in going forward.

As the name implies, Syngenta expects to use the highly-automated, controlled environment corn breeding facility to speed up the time frame currently needed to introduce new corn traits for farmers.

But compact corn didn't happen by accident; years of hybrid breeding did that. Now, two new genome-based studies are making it possible to precisely adjust corn architecture to meet future demands.