Status of GMOs and Products
Agriculture applications

Transgenic crops under development and field trials in 2011 , 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 resistant to Watermelon Bud Necrosis Virus (WBNV)
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 resistant to Tospo virus (Peanut Bud Necrosis Virus: PBNV)
Indian Institute of Horticultural Research Event selection (Not conducted) Virus Resistance

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 resistant to Tomato leaf Curl Virus (TLCV)

Indian Institute of Horticultural Research Event selection Virus Resistance 9 events  namely ANMi, ANM2, ANM3, Av 225-7, ANV-9, ANV-1, PR130-13, PR 130-12, AS231-7 combined resistant to Tomato leaf Curl Virus (TLCV) and Tospo (Peanut Bud Necrosis Virus: PBNV :PBNV)
Indian Institute of Vegetable Research Event selection in net house

 

Insect resistance 8 events i.e. IVTE-1, IVTE-2, IVTE-3, IVTE-4, IVTE-5, IVTE-6, IVTE-7 and IVTE-8 containing cry1Ac
National Research Centre on Plant Biotechnology (NRCPB),IARI Campus Event selection

 

Delayed fruit ripening transgenic tomato events namely ACS3-9 and ACS 7-9 containing antisense ACC synthase 2
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 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

 

transgenic rice events (Hybrid Rice SPT maintainer events) generated using the 1) SPT1 construct i.e. JH15b, JH16a, JH16b, JH17, JH25b, JH26a, and JH36 of BC3 generation containing ZM-AA1, Os-MSCA1 and DsRED2 genes and 2) SPT6 constructs i.e. J6-1-45a, J6-1-8, J6-1-4d, J6-1-10b, J6-1-7d containing Os-MSCA1, ZM-AA1 and DsRED2
transgenic rice events (Hybrid Rice SPT maintainer events) generated using the SPT1 construct i.e. DKC376, DKC/550, DKC413b, DKC413a, DKC615, DKC1049b, DKC1049a, DKC839, JH35 and JH37 of BC2 generation and DKC 320 of BC1 generation containing ZM-AA1, Os-MSCA1, DsRED2
5. Rice Bayer Bioscience Pvt Ltd.  Event selection

Insect Resistance and Herbicide Tolerant

 

 

 

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.
4 Bt rice lines events namely RICE 1502, RICE 1503,  RICE 1504, RICE 1507, RICE 1515, RICE 1526, RICE 1551, RICE 1552, RICE 1557, RICE 1558,  RICE 1576, RICE 2112, RICE 3130, RICE 3315, RICE 3316, RICE 3403, RICE 3405, RICE 3406,  RICE 3407, RICE 3411, RICE 3413, RICE 3432, RICE 3435, RICE 3436, RICE 3437, RICE 3438,  RICE 3439, RICE 3441, RICE 3442, RICE 3447, RICE 3449, RICE 3451, RICE 3457 and LLRICE62 containing cry1Ab, cry1Ca and bar genes
Rice Metahelix Life Sciences Pvt. Ltd. Event selection

Insect Resistance

transgenic rice events namely MHR01 to MHR566 containing cry1Ac and cry1Ab
Rice BASF India Ltd Event selection (Not conducted)

Yield Enhancement

 

 

 

139 transgenic rice (Oryza sativa) events with construct RPD5 containing OS ARGOS like, Leucine zipper gene; construct RPD8 containing AT-CDKB1;2, Cyclin Dependent Kinase gene; construct RPD10 containing OS ARGOS like, Leucine Zipper gene and  construct RPD11 containing OS-hox5, Homeobox- Leucine Zipper genes
6. Cauliflower and Cabbage

Nunhems India Pvt Ltd

 

 

Net house (Discontinued)

 

Insect Resistance and Herbicide Tolerant

 

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.

Nunhems India Pvt Ltd Event selection in net house under contained condition (Discontinued)

Insect Resistance and Herbicide Tolerant

 

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
8. 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 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 Dow AgroSciences India Pvt. Ltd. BRL-I second year (Not Conducted) Insect resistance

cry1F (event TC 1507) gene

Syngenta Biosciences Pvt. Ltd

 

BRL-I Insect Resistance cry1Ab gene (Event Bt11)

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)
Monsanto India Ltd. Seed productionInsect Resistance and Herbicide Tolerance Events MON 89034 x 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)

 

12. Cotton Dow AgroSciences India Pvt. Ltd. BRL-I second year Insect resistance cry1Ac & cry1F (WideStrike = Event 3006-210-23 and Event 281-24-236)
JK Agri Genetics Ltd. BRL-I second year Insect resistance cry1Ac (Event-1) and cry1EC (Event-24)

Central Institute for Cotton Research

Event selection Insect resistance transgenic cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) variety Anjali named as ILK-Bt 77  (events: ILK-Bt 77-1 to ILK-Bt 77-7) containing cry1Ac
transgenic cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) variety Anjali-AcBt (events: Anjali-AcBt-1, Anjali-AcBt-2 and Anjali-AcBt-3 ) containing cry1Ac
transgenic cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) variety Anjali-FBt (events: Anjali-FBt-1 and Anjali-FBt-2) containing cry1F gene
transgenic cotton (G. arboreum) varieties viz. G-822-Bt and and PA255-Bt [events: G-822-Bt  (Desi Bt G 822-1 to Desi Bt G-822-4) (4 events) and PA255-Bt (CICR Bt Desi-1 to CICR Desi Bt-6) (6 events) ] containing cry1Ac gene
Krishidhan Seeds Ltd Event Selection Insect resistance Events MIR-cotton (1 to 131) containing cry1Ac and cry1EC
13. Glytol cotton Bayer Bioscience Pvt. Ltd Event Selection Herbicide tolerant Glytol cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) hybrids namely SP499 G,  SP503 G,  SP7017 G, SP7140 G,  SP7139 G, SP7152 G and SP7230 G containing 2mEPSPS
14 Brinjal Indian Institute of Vegetable Research Event selection in net house Insect resistance cry1Ac
15. Mustard National Research Centre on Plant Biotechnology (NRCPB),IARI Campus BRL-1 Abiotic tolerance transgenic mustard (Brassica juncea L) varieties namely Pusa Jaikisan and Varuna containing osmotin (event Omb5-B)
University of Delhi South Campus BRL-1 Male sterile female inbred rice lines transgenic mustard (Brassica juncea)  hybrid DMH-11 containing barnase, barsar and bar[events bn 3.6 (Barnase line) and modbs 2.99 (Barstar line)]
University of Delhi South Campus Experimental Seed Production  and Environmental safety studies (Crossability Male sterile female inbred rice lines transgenic mustard (Brassica juncea)  hybrid DMH-11 containing barnase, barsar and bar[events bn 3.6 (Barnase line) and modbs 2.99 (Barstar line)]
16. Rubber Rubber Research Institute of India BRL-1 (Not Conducted) Stress Tolerance (Abiotic) Hb. SOD-L1 & L2 (Two transgenic events (lines) containing manganese superoxide dismutase gene (cDNA)

BRL-I: Biosafety Research Level-I

BRL-II: Biosafety Research Level-II