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Title: Nuziveedu Seeds develops gene to resist bollworm in Bt cotton
Source:The Hindu Business Line
Date:13 September 2017

In a major breakthrough in pest control research, Hyderabad-based NSL (Nuziveedu Seeds Ltd) seems to have found an answer to the dreaded pink bollworm, which continues to infest Bt cotton year after year. The company has developed an alternative trait to tackle the bollworm, which developed resistance to Bt cotton in single-gene traits in 2008-09, and to two-gene traits in2015. Researchers at NSL, India’s largest seed company, claim to have developed a new trait by combining two existing genes. NSL has already filed an application on the new finding with the Review Committee on Genetic Modification (RCGM), set up under the Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology. It is also preparing to file an application with the biotech regulator, Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee (GEAC), a statutory body set up under the Environment Protection Act, said NSL Chairman and Managing Director Mr M Prabhakar Rao, who is also the president of the National Seeds Association of India.




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