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Development and Adoption of Bt Cotton

2016
Bt cotton gets its name from a bacterium called Bacillus thuringiensis, a natural enemy of boll worms, characterized by its ability to produce crystalline inclusions during sporulation. The first Bt cotton varieties were introduced commercially through a licensing agreement between the gene discoverer, Monsanto, and the leading American cotton ...
Vasant P. Gandhi, Dinesh Jain
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Ecological Impact of Bt Cotton

Journal of New Seeds, 2003
Abstract An overview of the ecological impact of transgenic crops, especially Bt cotton, is given in this paper. Crops expressing insecticidal crystal protein (ICP) genes from Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) were among the first transgenic products approved for commercial use in the USA and several other countries.
Allan E. Zipf, Kanniah Rajasekaran
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Tritrophic Effects in Bt Cotton

Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, 2005
Transgenic insecticidal Bt crops are being increasingly used worldwide, and concern is increasing about resistance and their effects on nontarget organisms. The toxin acts as a weak pesticide and, hence, the effects are subtler than those of chemical biocides.
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Bt cotton

2022
Shivali Panjgotra, Amrit Sudershan, Vishal Sharma, Priya Sharma   +3 more
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Bt cotton in Pakistan

2021
Hafiza Masooma Naseer Cheema, Asif Ali Khan, Kashif Noor   +2 more
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Bt Cotton and the Legitimation of Democracy

2017
This chapter explores how the legitimation of democracy involves attempts to secure justice in the exercise of power with regard to redistribution, recognition and representation in the negotiation of risk. This is depicted using Habermas’ (Between facts and norms.
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Superhydrophobic self-extinguishing cotton fabrics for electromagnetic interference shielding and human motion detection

Journal of Materials Science and Technology, 2023
Thanh Nguyen, Yongqian Shi, Jiefeng Gao   +2 more
exaly  

The oviposition and movement behaviour of Bt-resistant and Bt-susceptible Helicoverpa armigera (Hübner) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) on Bt cotton and non-Bt cotton plants

2016
Helicoverpa armigera (Hübner) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) has caused poor yields to a range of agricultural crops, particularly to cotton. Pesticides have been used to control this pest with serious undesirable side effects, including the rapid development of high levels of resistance.
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Cotton cultivation technology with Chinese characteristics has driven the 70-year development of cotton production in China

Journal of Integrative Agriculture, 2022
Lu Feng, He-Zhong Dong
exaly  

A novel cotton mapping index combining Sentinel-1 SAR and Sentinel-2 multispectral imagery

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 2021
Lan Xun, Jiahua Zhang
exaly