Event Name: MON88913 (pima cotton)

Event Code : MON-88913-8
Trade Name: not available

Crop: Gossypium hirsutum L. - Cotton

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Developer:
Bayer CropScience (including fully and partly owned companies)

Method of Trait Introduction:
Conventional breeding - cross hybridization and selection involving transgenic donor(s)

GM Trait :
Glyphosate herbicide tolerance

Commercial Trait:
(Singular)  Herbicide Tolerance

Summary of Basic Genetic Modification

Gene Introduced Gene Source Product Function
cp4 epsps (aroA:CP4) Agrobacterium tumefaciens strain CP4 herbicide tolerant form of 5-enolpyruvulshikimate-3-phosphate synthase (EPSPS) enzyme decreases binding affinity for glyphosate, thereby conferring increased tolerance to glyphosate herbicide

 

Summary of Regulatory Approvals: Country, Year and Type of Approval

Country Food
direct use or processing		 Feed
direct use or processing		 Cultivation
domestic or non-domestic use
Japan      

Last updated: July 28, 2019

 


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