Related Keywords: Bt cotton seeds, Central Institute for Cotton Research, cotton, DUS testing, HT transgenic gene
BT Cotton Seed companies in the state who wish to sell in the market need to submit seed samples to government- approved laboratories for getting them tested in order to obtain sale licenses which has been made compulsory in Maharashtra. Whether a newly bred variety differs from existing varieties within the same species, whether the characteristics used to establish distinctness are expressed uniformly and that these characteristics do not change over subsequent generations is determined by the the way of DUS testing. DNA markers are used for assessing the genetic purity.
