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1. Non-Bt seeds provided by seed companies in India - are they suitable as refuge for Bt-cotton?

Author

KRANTHI, S., SATIJA, U., PUSADKAR, P., KUMAR, RISHI, SHASTRI, C. S., ANSARI, S., SANTOSH, H. B., MONGA, D., and KRANTHI, K. R.

Subjects
*BT cotton, *TRANSGENIC seeds, *BACILLUS thuringiensis, *HELIOTHIS zea, *PINK bollworm
Abstract

In this article, the author focuses on the use of non-Bt seeds over Bt-cotton that were provided by seed companies in India. It mentions that genetically modified (GM) cotton fortified with cry1Ac (crystal 1Ac) gene derived from the soil bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt), and states that . It also mentions that Cry1Ac protein expressed in Bt-cotton are toxic due to cotton bollworms including American bollworm, pink bollworm and spotted bollworms.

Published
2017

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