Bt-cotton: Protein expression in leaves is most critical

摘要

This has reference to the article by Kranthi et al.1 . Their conclusions … ‘Cry 1Ac ex-pression levels were the lowest in the ovary of flowers and boll rind of green bolls, which constitute the most favoured sites of bollworm attack … . The toxin expression was clearly inadequate to confer full protection to the fruiting parts’, have been widely quoted and exploited by certain NGOs to condemn this technology.