MON 87411 was selected based on its ability to confer resistance to WCR and its agronomic, phenotypic, and molecular characteristics. In brief the T-DNA insert consists of two copies of a 240 bp segment of the D. virgifera gene orthologous to yeast Snf7 (sequence reported in Bolognesi et al., 2012), the repeats are separated by a 150 bp spacer sequence and the transgene expression is driven by the CaMV 35S promoter and leader.