Status of GMOs and Products
Agriculture applications

Transgenic crops under development and field trials in  2010 ,2009 , 2008 , 2007 , 2006

 

FIELD TRIALS OF GM CROPS (CONTAINING NEW GENES/EVENTS) IN YEAR 2010
S.No. Crop Company Name Trial Trait Gene/Event
1. Watermelon Indian Institute of Horticultural Research Event selection

 

Virus Resistance 8 events namely AMa112a-1, AMa412-20, AMa432-6, AMa173-5, AMa545-1, AMa546-216, AMa547-230 and AMa548-10
2.

Tomato

Indian Institute of Horticultural Research

 

Event selection Virus Resistance 16 events  namely PR 38-7, PR42-1, PR55-5, AS78-7, AS194-11, AV60-2, AV1-5, AVNv4A, AVNv4B, AM97-9, AM95-16, AM93-5, AM190-8, AM190-11, AM190-12 and AM190-14
30 events  namely AM-188-4, AM188-26, AM-184-1, AM184-6, AM184-31, AM171-2, AM171-9, AM171-11, AM171-12, AM171-16, AM171-17, AM190-8, AM190-11, AM190-12, AM190-14, AS194-5, AS194-10, AS194-11, AS194-13, AS194-16, PR148-37, PR148-49, PR149-23, PR149-31, PR200-9, PR208-27, AV157-13, AV157-14, AV157-16, AV160-13, AV163-19
9 events  namely ANMi, ANM2, ANM3, Av 225-7, ANV-9, ANV-1, PR130-13, PR 130-12, AS231-7
3.
Papaya
Indian Institute of Horticultural Research Event selection Virus Resistance
4 events  namely TSolo4R, TSolo4Y, TSolo7-1and TSolo7-3 containing PRSV cp-gene
4.
Hybrid rice SPT maintainer
M/s. E.I. DuPont India Pvt. Ltd Event selection

Male sterile female inbred rice lines.

9 events namely DKC118, DKC45, JH02, JH04, JH11, JH15a, JH22, JH26b and JH34b containing Os-Msca1 gene

 

5. Rice M/s. Bayer Bioscience Pvt Ltd.  Event selection

Insect Resistance

 

56 Bt rice lines events namely RICE1502-RICE1509, RICE1515, RICE1526, RICE1551-52, RICE1555, RICE1557-58, RICE1576, RICE2111-12, RICE2114, RICE3105, RICE3107, RICE3130, RICE3301-17, RICE3401, RICE3403-19 and LLRICE62 containing cry1Ab, cry1Ca & bar genes
6. Cauliflower and Cabbage

M/s. Nunhems India Pvt Ltd

 

 

Net house

 

Insect Resistance

 

6 events namely CF-3, CF-4, CF-5, CA-1, CA-2 and CA-6 of transgenic cauliflower and cabbage (3 events for cauliflower including hybrids of two of them and 3 events from cabbage including hybrids of two of them) containing cry1Ba, cry1Ca and bar genes.

 

M/s. Nunhems India Pvt Ltd Event selection in net house under contained condition

Insect Resistance

 

 

 

cry1Ba, cry1Ca and bar

 

7. Sugarcane Sugarcane Breeding Institute (ICAR) Event selection Insect Resistance 10 events namely Co 86032-Bt-7 (B), Co 86032-Bt-8 (B). Co 86032-Bt-10 (B), Co 86032-Bt-17(B), Co 86032-Bt-18(B), Co 86032-Apr-Bt-2(B), Co 86032-Apr-Bt-4(B), Co 86032-Apr-Bt-3(A), Co 86032-Bt-5(A), Co 86032- Bt-6(A) containing cry1Ab gene
9. Sorghum

Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture

 

Event selection

Abiotic tolerance/drought resistance

 

 

7genotypes with Events namely pCAMBIA 1300: mtlD CRIDA 1-6-1-8-4, mtlD CRIDA 2-9-3-3-5, mtlD CRIDA 4-7-1-7-4, mtlD CRIDA 26-1-11-6-1, mtlD CRIDA 75-2-21-2-1 and Events with pCAMBIA 1305.1: mtlD CRIDA 3-3-18-7-2 and untransformed control: SPV-462 containing mtID gene

 

9. Maize M/s. Pioneer Overseas Corporation BRL-I second year Insect Resistance and Herbicide Tolerance cry1F & PAT  and CP4EPS PS genes  (TC1507 x NK603  (DAS-01507-1 x MON-00603-6)
10. Corn M/s. Dow AgroSciences India Pvt. Ltd. BRL-I second year Insect resistance

cry1F (event TC 1507) gene

M/s. Syngenta Biosciences Pvt. Ltd

 

BRL-I Insect Resistance cry1Ab gene (Event Bt11)

M/s Monsanto India Ltd.

BRL-I second year Insect Resistance and Herbicide Tolerance
stacked cry2Ab2 and cry1A.105 genes (Event MON 89034) & CP4EPSPS genes (Event NK603)
11. Groundnut ICRISAT Event Selection in net house under confined conditions Fungal Resistance 9 events namely RC-GN-12, RC-GN-23, RC-GN-24, RC-GN-27, RC-GN-29, RC-GN-30, RC-GN-31, RC-GN-36 and RC-GN-44 containing chitinase gene
ICRISAT Event selection in net house

Virus Resistance

 

11events namely GN TSV 3, GN TSV 9,  GN TSV 30,  GN TSV 31,  GN TSV 33,  GN TSV 40,  GN TSV 41,  GN TSV 48,  GN TSV 50,  GN TSV 94,  GN TSV 101,  control (JL 24) and control (TMV 2) containing coat protein gene of tobacco streak virus 

University of Agricultural Sciences,GKVK Campus

 

 

Event selection

 

Abiotic tolerance/drought resistance

 

Events namely 166-4 (A1), 187-3-1-1 (A2) and 296-12-4-4 (A4) over expressing DREB1A for stress tolerance (Drought tolerance)

 

University of Agricultural Sciences,GKVK Campus Event selection

Abiotic tolerance/drought resistance

 

 

 

Events namely 475-1-6-1 (B9), 505-7-5-6 (B11), 525-10-2-3 (B14), 537-6-6-1 (B15), 526-6-1-4 (B16) over expressing DREB1B for stress tolerance (Drought tolerance)

 

M/s. Dow AgroSciences India Pvt. Ltd. BRL-I second year Insect resistance cry1Ac & cry1F (WideStrike = Event 3006-210-23 and Event 281-24-236)

BRL-I: Biosafety Research Level-I

BRL-II: Biosafety Research Level-II

LST: Large Scale Trial