India blocks sale of transgenic cotton seeds

Growing Vegetable Seeds for Sale

MEN WHO grow vegetable seeds for sale engage in a specialized and highly competitive farming operation. They compete to maintain superior strains of most standard varieties and to develop new varieties. Most of the large vegetable seed companies have well-qualified staffs to develop and maintain stock seed, from which is produced seed for the market, mostly by farmers who have contracts with th...

Transgenic Cotton: An Overview

The first transgenic cotton having insect or herbicide resistance was released to the field in 1996 in the United States. Since then the rapid increase in transgenic cotton acreage within 10 years attests to the overall success of agricultural biotechnology. This review article provides an overview of genetically modified cotton and its application in agricultural production. We first criticall...

Amino Acid composition of germinating cotton seeds.

Total and free amino acid composition of germinating cotton seeds (Gossypium hirsutum L.) was determined. The germinating seeds were separated into cotyledon and developing axis fractions daily and the composition of each tissue was summed to get the whole seed composition. By separating the developing seeds into these two tissue fractions, and determining total and free amino acids, a balance ...

Bt COTTON IN INDIA

Whose numbers count? Probing discrepant evidence on transgenic cotton in the Warangal district of India

The relationship between poverty and transgenic agricultural crops has created a global rift in development studies. Some, but not all, questions in this debate should be amenable to empirical treatment. Field studies have generated divergent numbers on yields and other agronomic outcomes. Studies from India come to diametrically opposed findings about Bt cotton: either the technology is scale-...