Fruit borer Damage as identified by the consumer

Bt Brinjal OPVs developed by TNAU

MDU1-Bt

PLR1-Bt

KKM1-Bt

Co2-Bt

Co2

KKM1

PLR1

MDU1

Farmer’s Dilemma: Repeated pesticide sprays?

9 to 14 days

Adult moth

Egg

Hatching Entry

MatureLarva

Pupation

Cocoon

Adult emergence

2 to 3 hours

3 days

7-9 days

Achilles’ Heel

Why Bt technology in brinjal?

or Bt technology?

Leapfrogging

Leapfrogging is a theory of development in which developing countries skip inferior, less efficient, more expensive or more polluting technologies and industries and move directly to more advanced ones.

Examples of leapfrogging?????

Leapfrog technologies

Solar power for rural communities in Pakistan.

The "Hospital of the Future" in Thailand World's Greenest Building, as voted by the US

Green Building Council, in Hyderabad, India Free broadband and Linux machines in Brazil: "Barefoot Solar Engineers" -- rural women

trained to install and repair solar power systems in India

Leapfrog technologies

Mobile phone use already exceeds land line use in India, and by 2007, 150 million out of the 200 million phone lines there will be cellular.

Bt brinjal in India under the auspices of DBT, Government of India/USAID/ABSPII. Possibly the first edible GM crop of this country

The Bt brinjal Team

Dr. P. Balasubramanian Dr. D. VeeraragavathathamDirector, CPMB Dean (Hort), Coimbatore

Dr. D. SudhakarDr. M. MuruganDr. N. BalakrishnanDr. E. KokiladeviDr. A. ThangahemavathyDr. P. YashodaDr. S. JayaprabhavathiDr. B. Vinothkumar