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Transgenic cotton: High hopes and farming reality

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To determine the potential of any promising tool, its performance in practice must always be considered. Two recent articles reach different conclusions on one important benefit of Bacillus thuringiensis cotton management: the potential to reduce pesticide sprays.

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Figure 1: Metric tonnes of insecticides used in India between 1995–2011 against major insect pests.
Figure 2: Roselle (Hibiscus cannabinus L.), which is eaten raw as a chutney, growing in gaps between Bt cotton plants in Telangana, India.

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  1. Andrew Flachs is a Volkswagen Foundation fellow at the Karl Jaspers Centre for Advanced Transcultural Studies, Voßstraße 2, Building 4400, 69115 Heidelberg, Germany.,

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Flachs, A. Transgenic cotton: High hopes and farming reality. Nature Plants 3, 16212 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nplants.2016.212

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