Journal or Publishing Institution: Nature Biotechnology
Study: https://www.nature.com/articles/nbt1197-1233a
Author(s): Fox, J.L.
Article Type: Journal Publication
Record ID: 704
Text: As the fall harvest began, more than 40 US cotton growers in the Mississippi Delta region had filed complaints with the state agriculture commission over Monsanto’s (St. Louis, MO) Roundup Ready cotton. Claiming heavy losses, the Mississippi farmers are saying that large numbers of these genetically engineered, herbicide-tolerant plants are dropping their cotton bolls before harvest or are producing deformed bolls. In response, Monsanto represents point out that these problems are confined to a tiny portion of total US cotton acreage, that Roundup Ready cotton planted in other states and elsewhere is Mississippi is performing well, and something other than transgenic changes to the cotton seed surely account for these peculiar developments…
Citation: Fox, J.L., 1997. Farmers say Monsanto’s engineered cotton drops bolls. Nature Biotechnology, 15(12), pp.1233-1233.
