Genetic Literacy Project
https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2021/04/15/bangladesh-developing-new-generation-of-genetically-engineered-disease-resistant-bt-eggplant-to-fight-plant-diseases-dramatically-cutting-insecticide-use/

Starting with only 20 farmers in 2014, the technology of Bt brinjal – a crop developed to drastically lower hazardous pesticide application – reached to 65,000 eggplant growers this year, making it the fastest expanding biotech product in Bangladesh.

Bt brinjal, a genetically modified eggplant variety, was developed to fight fruit and shoot borer (FSB) that used to cause colossal crop loss in Bangladesh’s brinjal fields but not anymore.

Now, riding on the huge success of Bangladesh’s fastest expanding biotech crop, breeders areworking on developing two new eggplant varieties capable to withstand FSB and bacterial wilt.

Together with FSB, the bacterial wilt causes substantial crop loss in brinjal, second most consumed vegetable in Bangladesh after potato.

Read on: https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2021/04/15/bangladesh-developing-new-generation-of-genetically-engineered-disease-resistant-bt-eggplant-to-fight-plant-diseases-dramatically-cutting-insecticide-use/