Transcription of TRANSGENIC BT COTTON
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Technical Bulletin from CICR ( ) 1 TRANSGENIC Bt COTTON CICR TECHNICAL BULLETIN NO: 22 TRANSGENIC Bt COTTON Dr CD Mayee Dr P Singh Dr AB Dongre Dr MRK Rao Dr Sheo Raj Downloaded from Central Institute for COTTON Research Nagpur Technical Bulletin from CICR ( ) 2 TRANSGENIC Bt COTTON TRANSGENIC Bt COTTON 1. Introduction COTTON is one of the major fibre crops of global significance. It is cultivated in tropical and sub-tropical regions of more than eighty countries of world occupying nearly 33 m ha with an annual production of 19 to 20 million tones of bales. China, , India, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Australia, Brazil, Greece, Argentina and Egypt are major COTTON producing countries. These countries contribute nearly 85% of the global COTTON production. In India, COTTON is being cultivated in m ha and stands first in acreage. The crop is grown in varied agro-climatic situation across nine major states viz.
referred to as transgenic. In other words, genetically engineered organisms are called transgenics. A transgenic may be a plant, an animal or a microbe. Transgenic plants contain foreign gene or genetically modified gene of the same species. The foreign gene may be from a
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