How DuPont Pioneer Assigns Numbers to Products
Corn Product Numbering System
As the portfolio of Pioneer® brand corn products continues to increase, DuPont Pioneer has developed a numbering system that enables growers to quickly identify specific attributes of a product — including its hybrid family, maturity and technology segment(s). The example below outlines what each component of the numbering system communicates.
How the System Works
All new corn products begin with the letter P. The revised naming system streamlines corn hybrid designations under a "platform," or hybrid family name. The base genetic line, and all conversions that include any technology segments, share a common number.
Identifying Technologies in the Product Name
If a hybrid contains no technology segments, the name is a five-digit number. If the hybrid contains one or more technologies, these are designated by specific letters.
Soybean Product Numbering System
Soybean Product Example - P31A22X
P - PIONEER
- Denotes a Pioneer® brand product
31 - RM
- Denotes Relative Maturity
- RM descriptor numbers expand as necessary to describe a product’s RM
- Examples: P31A22X denotes RM of 31; P007A90R denotes RM of 007
A - A-SERIES
- Denotes “A-Series”
22 - RANDOM NUMBER
- 01 to 99
X - PRODUCT SUFFIX
- X = Roundup Ready 2 Xtend® technology
- B = BOLT® technology
- R = Glyphosate Tolerant trait
- R2 = Genuity® Roundup Ready 2 Yield® trait
- L = LibertyLink® trait
- S = DuPont™ STS® trait
- P = Plenish® high oleic trait
- BLANK = No additional traits (conventional)
Canola Product Numbering System
Canola Product Example - 45H21
4 - Signifies canola.
5 - Signifies mid-maturity:
- 0-2 = Very early
- 3-4 = Early
- 5-6 = Mid
- 7-9 = Late
H - Signifies type:
- A = Open-pollinated napus
- C = Hybrid napus with Clubroot resistance
- S = Hybrid napus with Sclerotinia resistance
- H = Hybrid napus
- P = OP rapa
- J = Canola quality juncea
2 - Number with no special meaning.
1 - Number with no special meaning.
Sunflower Product Numbering System
Sunflower Products 2010 or Later - Sunflower Product Example - P63HE60
P - Defines as Pioneer product.
6 - Denotes sunflower.
3 - Denotes maturity:
- 2 = < 36 maturity (very early)
- 3 = 36-41 maturity (mid-early and early)
- 4 = 42-49 maturity (mid-late)
- 5 = >49 maturity (late and tropical-adapted)
H - Denotes end use:
- L = Conventional high linoleic oil (50-75%)
- H = Hi-oleic oil (>80%)
- N = Hi-linoleic oil (>75%)
- P = Hi-palmitic oil (>15%)
- S = Hi-stearic oil (>15%)
- M = Mid-oleic oil (50-80%)
- C = Confectionary
- B = Birdseed
- W = Cocoa butter (30-30-30%)
E - Denotes herbicide resistance technology:
- E = Express
- C = Clearfield
- L = Conventional linoleic, non-herbicide
- H = Conventional high oleic, non-herbicide
- M = Conventional mid-oleic, non-herbicide
- B = Conventional birdseed, non-herbicide
60 - Random numbers
Alfalfa Product Numbering System
Alfalfa Product Example - 54VR10
5 - Signifies alfalfa.
4 - Signifies medium fall dormancy:
- 3 - Early fall dormant
- 4 - Medium fall dormant
- 5 - Late fall dormant
- 6 - Semi-dormant
- 7-9 - Non-dormant
VR - Signifies product is both very winterhardy and Roundup Ready®:
- H - Winterhardy
- V - Very winterhardy
- Q - Quality forage variety
- S - Semi-dormant
- N - Non-dormant
- R - Roundup Ready®
- HVX - HarvXtra®
10 - No special meaning
