Bt cotton fiasco & heaps of shame

The disgraceful conduct of public sector scientists in faking an indigenous Bt cotton variety based on one of India’s more successful cotton variety Bikaneri Narma once again brings heaps of shame to the Indian scientific community. Scientists at Dharwad University and the Central Institute for Cotton Research (CICR), Nagpur, said they had developed a fully indigenous cotton variety independent of the Monsanto line of Bt cottons.

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