Bayer CropScience Enters Agreement to Improve Cotton Technology

Bayer CropScience has obtained exclusive rights to Performance Plant Inc.’s Heat and Drought Technology for cotton, which preserves yield by enhancing plants’ tolerance to heat, drought or combined stress.

Research Shortens Development of New Characteristics

Bayer CropScience AG and Precision BioSciences Inc. have successfully inserted a gene into a specific desired location in cotton using Precision’s Directed Nuclease Editor technology.

Cotton Researcher of the Year: “Work Together at the Global Level”

The winner of the International Cotton Advisory Committee's Cotton Researcher of the Year award tells Cotton International that collaboration is the key to success in the future.

10 Years of Bt in India: Biotech Seeds Save Indian Market

This season alone, nearly 7 million farmers in India purchased 30 million authentic, GEAC-approved Bt cotton seed packets and planted them in 9.4 million hectares.

Indian Seed Lab Remains Unused, 13 Years Later

A cutting-edge facility was fully stocked with machinery to test seed quality, germination, lamination--even DNA--but hasn't been used since it was completed in 1997.

Brazil´s Biosafety Commission Approves Bayer’s TwinLink Cotton

Regulatory body approves Bayer's technology, which is specially designed to fight caterpillars and fully tolerant to glufosinate-ammonium herbicides.

Transgenics Have Their Uses, but Aren’t a Panacea