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SynTech Photo Competition winners

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Sowing maize seed, Hungary - winning photo by Janos Kuta
Sowing maize seed, Hungary – winning photo by Janos Kuta

János Kutas of SynTech Research Hungary was one of the winners of this year’s SynTech staff photo competition with his image of Ferenc Molnár, senior field research biologist, SynTech Research Hungary sowing maize seed treated against Western Corn Rootworm (Diabrotica virgifera virgifera) in a small plot trial. Seed treatments and soil insecticides applied at planting are the only control methods available since transgenic maize hybrids for CRW control are not registered in Hungary.

Other competition winners were Thomas Bouly, SynTech France (Spraying Sunflowers), Houston Howerton, SynTech Lab Services, Kansas (Bee Toxicity Testing) and Gabriel Junquiera, SynTech Brazil (Spraying in Coffee).

Spraying sunflowers by Thomas Bouly, SynTech France
Spraying sunflowers by Thomas Bouly, SynTech France
Bee toxicity testing by Houston Howerton
Bee toxicity testing by Houston Howerton, SynTech Lab Services, Kansas
Spraying in coffee by Gabriel Junquiera, SynTech Brazil
Spraying in coffee by Gabriel Junquiera, SynTech Brazil

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