R.B. Barwale, V.R. Gadwal, Usha Zehr, and Brent ZehrMaharashtra Hybrid Seed Company, India Cotton is a very important crop in India; farmers there face the challenge of losses due to various insect pests. The first genetically modified crop in India, Bt cotton,…

John P. Purcell and Frederick J. PerlakMonsanto Company Insect-resistant (Bt) cotton has been rapidly adopted since its introduction in 1996. Farmers around the world—both large and smallholders—benefit from this technology through increased productivity, convenience, and time savings. The vast majority of farmers…

Swapan K. DattaInternational Rice Research Institute, Manila, Philippines Rice, the most important food crop of the developing world, feeds more than two billion people as a staple food. Its improvement since the Green Revolution has been enormous, and biotechnology in the genomics…

Dennis GonsalvesUnited States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service, US Pacific Basin Agricultural Research Center Papaya ringspot virus (PRSV) is often a limiting factor in the production of papaya worldwide. In 1992, PRSV was discovered in the district of Puna on Hawaii…

Wojciech K. KaniewskiThomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PAPeter E. ThomasUnited States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service, Prosser, WA The need for genetic improvements of American potato was recognized as a primary target for plant genetic engineering. As immediate needs, virus and insect…

Timothy Conner, E. Hamer Paschal, Alberto Barbero, and Eric JohnsonMonsanto Company Soybeans are the primary source of the world’s supply of protein and vegetable oil. The demand for increased production of soybeans is forecasted to mirror the world’s population growth and demand…

Nigel Taylor, Lawrence Kent, and Claude FauquetDonald Danforth Plant Science Center, St Louis The production of genetically modified cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) plants is routine in the advanced laboratories that invested in this technology during the 1990s. The ultimate aim of those…

Greg TraxlerDepartment of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, Auburn UniversitySalvador Godoy-AvilaEstación Experimental La Laguna, Coahuila, Mexico We examine the farm-level impact of Bt cotton in Coahuila and Durango, Mexico. Bt cotton was introduced in Mexico in 1996. It has been an important…

Lawrence KentDirector of International Programs, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, Missouri Agricultural biotechnology offers great potential benefits to farmers in developing countries, but so far only a small handful of genetically modified (GM) crop products have been planted in only…

Kynda R. CurtisDepartment of Applied Economics and Statistics, University of Nevada, RenoJill J. McCluskeySchool of Economic Sciences, Washington State University, PullmanThomas I. WahlIMPACT and School of Economic Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman Worldwide consumer response toward food products made from genetically modified…