Journal of Insect Science: Vol. 9 | Article 22

Table 1. Characteristics of commercialized or near-term transgenic cotton cultivars.

Protein(s)	Product name (Developer)	Date of release	Promoter	Marker gene	Transformation technique	Event(s)
Cry1Ac	Bollgard (Monsanto)	1996^a	CaMV 35S^b	nptII^c aad^c	Agrobacterium-mediated (Coker 312)^b	MON531^c MON757 MON1076
Cry1Ac	ND^* (IIT Kharagpur^†)	2006^a	ND	ND	ND	Event 1^a
Cry1Ac	ND (NBRI^‡)	Not released	ND	ND	ND	ND
Cry1Ac + Cry2Ab	Bollgard II (Monsanto)	2002^a	CaMV35S^e	uidA^f	Particle bombardment (DP50B)^e	15985^f
Cry1Ac + Cry1F	Widestrike (Dow Agrosciences)	2004^a	d mas 2′^g ubiquitin 1^g	pat^g	Agrobacterium-mediated (Germain’s Acala GC510)^g,^§	DAS-21Ø23-5 X DAS-24236-5 ^a
Cry1A^&	various (CAAS^θ and others)	1997^a	ND	ND	Agrobacterium-mediated, pollen-tube pathway (various)^h,ⁱ	various
Cry1A + CpTI	sGK321 (CAAS)	1999^a	ND	ND	Pollen-tube pathway (Shiyuan 321)^h	sGK321^h
Cry1EC	ND (NBRI)	Not released	CaMV35S^j	nptII^j	Agrobacterium-mediated (Coker 312)^j	ND
Vip3A + Cry1Ab	VipCot (Syngenta)	Not released	Actin-2^k,^ψ	aph4^l,^ψ	Agrobacterium-mediated (Coker 312)^k,^ψ,^ɧ	Cot102 X Cot67B^d
LecGNA 2	ND (CPMB^δ)	Not released	ND	ND	ND	ND

^*ND indicates information that was not available or has not been published in English.

^†Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

^‡National Botanical Research Institute, India

^§Widestrike was created by crossing two transgenic cultivars (281-24-236 and 3006-210-23), each of which contain one transgene.

^&Refers to a fusion between the cry1Ac and cry1Ab genes.

^θChinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences

^ψInformation is available for the Cot102 parent cultivar only.

^ɧVipCot was created by crossing two transgenic cultivars (Cot102 and Cot67B), each of which contain one transgene.

^δCenter for Plant Molecular Biology, India

^aJames 2006

^bPerlak et al. 1990

^cAgBios GM Database 2005a

^dKurtz et al. 2007

^eGreenplate et al. 2003

^fAgBios GM Database 2005b

^gAgBios GM Database 2005c

^hZhang et al. 2000a

ⁱHuang et al. 2002b

^jSingh et al. 2004

^kLlewellyn et al. 2007a

^lAgBios GM Database 2005d