the Bt cotton, to combat this pest. However, by 2009, the bollworm began to develop resistance to a toxic protein present in cotton. Crop breeder at RRS, Bathinda, Paramjit Singh, who is leading ...

The pink bollworm has brought down India’s cotton production by a quarter in the last decade. While a few seed companies have ...

Ludhiana: While the Punjab govt has offered a 33 per cent subsidy on Bt cotton seeds recommended by Punjab Agricultural ...

The Punjab government may have been motivating Malwa farmers to expand the area under cotton as the sowing ... Bollgard-III stage of BT seeds resistant to pink bollworm pest, the efforts may ...

The authors say "under Indian conditions, bollworm have a high destructive capacity that is not well controlled in conventional cotton ... is more in Bt hybrids and the insect resistance remains ...

cotton, and soybeans, that have been genetically modified to express insecticide genes from the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt). When susceptible pests munch on these “Bt crops,” they get ...

A bollworm, Helicoverpa zea, munches down on a cotton flower bud. This pest insect eats all parts of the cotton plant. In some places, bollworm have as many as six generations in one growing season.