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Table 1 Infestation of Pectinophora gossypiella on flowers and green bolls of Bacillus thuringiensis cotton in India

From: Pink bollworm, Pectinophora gossypiella (Saunders) (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) survival on transgenic cotton in India

States

District

Pink bollworm damage indices

Flower infestation (%)

Green boll infestation (%)

Andhra Pradesh

Prakasham

29.26 (6)

83 (4)

Telangana

Adilabad

9.15 (18)

91.20 (5)

Maharastra

Wardha

18.05 (7)

Yavatmal

7.91 (7)

56.6 (19)

Jalna

13.48 (5)

79 (4)

Gujarat

Rajkot

6.63 (5)

60 (3)

Junagadh

3.09 (6)

69.60 (5)

Amreli

3.6 (7)

90 (2)

Vadodara

3.36 (10)

36 (4)

  1. Note: Infestation of flowers and green bolls by field populations; the same populations which were survived on toxins log concentration probit assays was pooled in F1 and boll bioassays was performed in field for further confirmation of resistance; figures in parenthesis are number of fields sampledss