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 ...

Bt cotton contains a gene of Bacillus thuringiensis, a species of soil bacteria. The plant uses it to produce a poison whose effects are fatal to the principal cotton pests -- voracious caterpillars.

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.

Pink bollworm is a pest of the cotton crop, particularly in Punjab, causing yield losses. In Punjab, pink bollworm infestations have led to significant economic losses for farmers, even impacting Bt ...

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 ...

While organic farmers have sprayed Bt on crops for decades, many cotton growers worldwide are now using the genetically-modified, insect-resistant Bt cotton variety of the plant. Three-quarters of ...

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.

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