MON 87411 was developed through Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of immature corn embryos (Sidorov and Duncan, 2009). The R0 plants (the first transformed generation) were selected on medium containing glyphosate. After self pollination and the identification of homozygous seed, plants were subjected to further molecular and phenotypic assessments (Data not shown). 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. A more complete description of the T-DNA insert was previously described (Armstrong et al., 2013).