Status of GMOs and Products
Agriculture applications

Transgenic crops under development and field trials in  2009 , 2008 , 2007 , 2006

 

FIELD TRIALS OF GM CROPS (CONTAINING NEW GENES/EVENTS) IN YEAR 2009
S.No. Crop Company Name Trial Trait Gene/Event
1. Brinjal Bejo Sheetal Seeds Pvt. Ltd.

BRL-I

Insect Resistance cry1Fa1 (Event 142)
University of  of Agricultural Sciences Seed multiplication cry1Ac
2. Cabbage
and
Cauliflower

Nunhems
India Pvt.
Ltd.

 

Net house Insect Resistance cry1Ba, cry1Ca and bar
3.
Potato
Central Potato Research Institute Event selection

Transgenic dwarf potato

 

 


Disease Resistance (late blight)

Reduction in cold-induced sweetening
and  chip colour improvement

GA20 Oxidase1 (Events HP-600, HP-608, HP-609, HP-502, HP-504, HP-508, HP-401, HP-425, HP-431and HP-433)
RB gene for conferring resistance to late blight disease

vacuolar acid and invertase
RNAi-transgenic events namely
K.ChipInvRNAi-2214, K.ChipInvRNAi-2013, K.ChipInvRNAi-2311, K.ChipInvRNAi-2123,
K.ChipInvRNAi-2262, K.ChipInvRNAi-2213, K.ChipInvRNAi-2015

4.
Cotton
JK Agrigenetics Ltd

BRL-I


BRL-1 second year and F1 seed production in an area of 0.5 hectare

 

 

 

 

Insect Resistance

 

 

 

 

 

 

cry1Ac (Event-1) and cry1EC (Event-24)

Dow Agrosciences

 

 

 

 

 

BRL-1  second year
BRL-1
F1 experimental seed production

cry1 Ac & cry1F (Widestrike=Event 3006-210-23 and Event 281-24-236)

 

 

 

Central Institute for Cotton Research Event selection Virus resistance 30 events of Antisense Coat Protein (ACP), Sense Coat Protein (SCP) and Antisense Replication Protein (AReP) genes [(13 events of H-777 variety
5. Corn Monsanto India Ltd. BRL-I second year

Insect resistance and Herbicide tolerance

 

Stacked cry2Ab2 and cryA.105 (MON 89034) & CP4EPSPS (NK603)
Pioneer Overseas Corporation BRL-I

Insect resistance and Herbicide tolerance

 

Stacked cry1F and CP4EPSPS (stacked event of TC1507XNK603)
Dow Agrosciences India Pvt. Ltd. BRL-I

Insect resistance

 

cry1F ( event TC1507 )
6. RRF cotton Maharashtra Hybrid Seeds Co. Ltd.

BRL-1  second year 

 

Insect Resistance and Herbicide tolerance

 

Stacked cry1Ac & cry2Ab (MON 15985) and CP4EPSPS  (MON 88913)
7. Rice

Bayer Bioscience Pvt. Ltd.

 

 

Event selection

 

Insect Resistance

 

cry 1Ab, cry 1Ca & bar

 

 

Maharashtra Hybrid Seeds Co. Ltd.     20 Bt Rice events namely 2Bt-1 to 2Bt-20 containing cry2Ab
8. Groundnut ICRISAT Event selection

Virus resistance

 

 

 


Abiotic tolerance/drought resistance

Coat protein gene (cp) of tobacco streak virus against peanut stem Necrosis Disease and Rchit gene for resistance against Aspergillus


DREB1A gene derived from Arabidposis thaliana driven by the drought-responsive promoter of rd29A gene from A. thaliana.

 

9. Chickpea

ICRISAT

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Event selection

Abiotic tolerance/drought resistance

 

DREB1A gene derived from Arabidposis thaliana driven by the drought-responsive promoter of rd29A gene from A. thaliana

NRC for Plant Biotechnology,Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI) Insect Resistance cry2Aa
10. Sorghum

National Research Centre for Sorghum

 

 

BRL-1

Insect Resistance

 

 

cry1B gene NRCSCRY1B event 4 and NRCSCRY 1B event 19

 

BRL-I: Biosafety Research Level-I

BRL-II: Biosafety Research Level-II

LST: Large Scale Trial