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Non-Bt Seeds Provided by Seed Companies in India - Are they Suitable as Refuge for Bt-Cotton?


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1 ICAR-Central Institute for Cotton Research, Post Bag No. 2, Shankar Nagar P.O., Nagpur 440 010, India
2 ICAR-Central Institute for Cotton Research, Regional Station, Sirsa 125 055, India
 

Genetically modified (GM) cotton fortified with cry1Ac (crystal 1Ac) gene derived from the soil bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt), commonly known as Bt-cotton, was approved in 2002 for commercial cultivation in India. The Cry1Ac protein expressed in Bt-cotton is toxic to the three major cotton bollworms: the American bollworm, Helicoverpa armigera (Hübner) (Lepidoptera:Noctuidae), pink bollworm Pectinophora gossypiella (Saunders) (Lepidoptera:Gelechiidae) and spotted bollworms Earias vittella (Fabricius) (Lepidoptera:Noctuidae) and Earias insulana (Boisduval) (Lepidoptera:Noctuidae).
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Authors

S. Kranthi
ICAR-Central Institute for Cotton Research, Post Bag No. 2, Shankar Nagar P.O., Nagpur 440 010, India
U. Satija
ICAR-Central Institute for Cotton Research, Post Bag No. 2, Shankar Nagar P.O., Nagpur 440 010, India
P. Pusadkar
ICAR-Central Institute for Cotton Research, Post Bag No. 2, Shankar Nagar P.O., Nagpur 440 010, India
Rishi Kumar
ICAR-Central Institute for Cotton Research, Regional Station, Sirsa 125 055, India
C. S. Shastri
ICAR-Central Institute for Cotton Research, Post Bag No. 2, Shankar Nagar P.O., Nagpur 440 010, India
S. Ansari
ICAR-Central Institute for Cotton Research, Post Bag No. 2, Shankar Nagar P.O., Nagpur 440 010, India
H. B. Santosh
ICAR-Central Institute for Cotton Research, Post Bag No. 2, Shankar Nagar P.O., Nagpur 440 010, India
D. Monga
ICAR-Central Institute for Cotton Research, Regional Station, Sirsa 125 055, India
K. R. Kranthi
ICAR-Central Institute for Cotton Research, Post Bag No. 2, Shankar Nagar P.O., Nagpur 440 010, India

Abstract


Genetically modified (GM) cotton fortified with cry1Ac (crystal 1Ac) gene derived from the soil bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt), commonly known as Bt-cotton, was approved in 2002 for commercial cultivation in India. The Cry1Ac protein expressed in Bt-cotton is toxic to the three major cotton bollworms: the American bollworm, Helicoverpa armigera (Hübner) (Lepidoptera:Noctuidae), pink bollworm Pectinophora gossypiella (Saunders) (Lepidoptera:Gelechiidae) and spotted bollworms Earias vittella (Fabricius) (Lepidoptera:Noctuidae) and Earias insulana (Boisduval) (Lepidoptera:Noctuidae).

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18520/cs%2Fv112%2Fi10%2F1992-1993