Agriculture Reference
In-Depth Information
Table 2. Biotech crops currently available and in development
Inpu
t
traits
Outp
ut
traits
Crop
C
5
C
12
D
Corn
C
D
D
D
C
15
D
Soybeans
C
D
D
C
6
Cotton
C
D
D
W
7
Potatoes
D
D
D
D
C
2
Wheat
D
Other field crops
1
C
3
D
4
D
D
D
D
D
Tomato, squash,
C
8
C
16
D
melon, sweet corn
C9 D
D
D
Other vegetables
D
D
C
10
Papaya
Fruit trees
D
D
D
13
Other trees
D
Flowers
D
1
Includes barley, canola, peanuts, tobacco, rice, sugar beet, alfalfa, etc.
2
Monsanto discontinued breeding and field level research on its GE Roundup Ready
wheat in 2004.
3
Canola, sugar beet, alfalfa.
4
Barley, rice.
5
Bt corn to control the corn borer commercially available since 1996; Bt corn for corn
rootworm control commercially available since 2003; Bt corn to control the corn
earworm commercially available since 2010; stacked versions of them also
available.
6
Bt cotton to control the tobacco budworm, the bollworm, and the pink bollworm,
commercially available since 1996.
7
Bt potatoes, containing built-in resistance to the Colorado potato beetle were
commercially introduced in 1996 and withdrawn in 1999.
8
Sweet corn with insect resistance (to the corn earworm and European corn borer) was
planted in anout 20,000 acres and sold in the fresh market in 2008 (NRC, 2010).
9
VR squash accounted for about 12 percent of the squash produced in in 2005 (NRC,
2010).
