Top scientist says Monsanto data is wrong
Vivek Deshpande Monday , Mar 08, 2010 at 0319 hrs Nagpur:
Reacting to the report, the director of the Central Institute of Cotton Research (CICR) has said that the data provided by Monsanto is wrong. Director Keshav Kranthi also negated the claim that Mahyco-Monsanto Biotech (MMB) has been conducting field monitoring research across India since 2003 in collaboration with CICR, saying that the institute was not part of any such testing.
“They have collected the surviving larvae — there would always be 10 resistant bollworm larvae out of every 10,000 — and have conducted tests on them. Such tests will always show resistance. It doesn’t mean there is across-the-board resistance to Cry1 Ac,” Kranthi told The Indian Express, adding, “I have written about it to GEAC.” Kranthi, winner of the first International Cotton Scientist of the Year award of UN’s Cotton Advisory Committee last year, is credited with designing a model that shows how resistance to Bt protein will slowly grow with the surviving larvae inter-mating and growing in numbers.
“That study is for American bollworm, not pink bollworm where the larvae would generally become weak due to resistance effort and will not survive. Nowhere in the world is pink bollworm known to have survived after developing resistance to Cry1Ac,” he said.
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