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Interbreeding Bt cotton plants with non-Bt plants yields a seed mix that has resulted in 96 percent pest suppression and 69 percent fewer insecticide sprays in the Yangtze River Valley in China.

In Bt cotton, these genes have been implanted so that the plant itself produces the relevant insecticides without the bacteria. By relocating these defences to the plant’s own genome, scientists ...

A soil bacterium called Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt), whose genes are inserted into crop plants, such as maize and cotton, creates these toxins that are deadly to insects but harmless to humans.

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Bruce Tabashnik, study leader and department head of entomology in the University of Arizona's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, has used pest-resistant cotton and the release of sterile pink ...

If Bt cotton does what its supporters say, it will be an economic boon to farmers struggling to survive. If it does what its critics say, it could destroy them.

On Bt cotton plants, survival from neonate to adult was 0% for the susceptible SCD strain, 19% for the resistant AY2 strain and 17% for the F 1 progeny from the cross between the two strains ...

Bt cotton hybrids now cover over 95% of the area under cotton and the seeds are produced by the private sector. ... These plants have more biomass than both parents and capacity for greater yields.

Non-hybrid cotton varieties in other cotton growing countries are grown at densities of more than 100,000 plants per hectare, which is at least five times higher than India’s national average ...

Bayer AG’s Monsanto won a legal battle to own patents on genetically-modified cotton seeds in India, the world’s biggest producer of the fiber, in a rare piece of good news for the German company.