The fate of cottonseed rests in your hands. More than eight years ago, we wrote about a project at Texas A&M University led by Dr. Keerti Rathore to create edible cottonseed. If determined to be safe for food and the…
Tag: Cotton
A new meta-analysis on the farm-level impacts of GMOs
Written by Jonas Kathage Despite the fact that the global area of GM crops has grown rapidly over the past decade and now encompasses more than 170 million hectares it is still questioned whether current applications of genetic engineering in…
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The real success story of GM cotton and edible cotton oil in India 2002-2011
A wonderful colorful and readable booklet about the success of Bt cotton in India has been made available from the ISAAA website for India.A sample table from this booklet tells the story of the massive expansion of cotton output over…
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Pollen defences used to protect corn and cotton against fungus damage
Flower power to help improve corn yield › News in Science (ABC Science) Flower power to help improve corn yieldWednesday, 4 May 2011 Anna SallehReposted from ABC Radio Australia Genes normally only active in the flowers of plants could be…
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Production-chain management is key issue in GM crop escapes
Sloppy seed-sorting main culprit in GM crop escapes(Press release about a free access PLoS ONE article linked below)María Elena Hurtado17 December 2010 IMAGE: Honey bees transmit GM pollen to non-GM fields, but human error plays a bigger role in GM…
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Movement of genes via cross pollination from cotton fields subject of a scientific study.
SCIENCE DAILYTransgenic Crops: How Genes Jump from Crop to Crop1st December 2010A new data-driven statistical model that incorporates the surrounding landscape in unprecedented detail describes the transfer of an inserted bacterial gene via pollen and seed dispersal in cotton plants…
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Release of sterilised moths avoids the need for refuges in cotton growing
Success in integrated pest management of pink boll worm in Arizona provides encouraging news for both the environment and for cotton growers. A two-pronged strategy involving insect protected cotton and biological control with wide scale release of sterile moths virtually…
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Community Contest #1 and more!
Hi everybody! Frank N. Foode™ here. Biofortified is workin' on building its community of editors, contributors, and readers with the new profile system. We're also coming up on our first Biennial celebration on the 31st of the month, making this…
Genome sequence of Peruvian wild cotton enters the public domain through corporate donation to databases
MONSANTO AND ILLUMINA REACH KEY MILESTONE IN SEQUENCING OF COTTON GENOME. Press releaseCompanies Will Donate Info to the Public Domain; Texas A&M Professor to Lead Effort on Cotton Genome SequencingST. LOUIS and SAN DIEGO (Sept. 22, 2010) – The complicated…
Cotton like Candy
Or Cottonseed you can Eat thanks to Genetic Engineering. A few years ago, I read about a research group that had used genetic engineering to remove a poisonous compound from cotton seed. Now, it seems, they are one step closer…