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Miles Rhodes,
Wine Taster
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Plants sometimes succumb to cotton root rot in alkaline soils.
The Pink Bollworm Permanent Plowdown requires all cotton plants be destroyed by shredding followed by plowing to limit the presence of any cotton plant and residue on the soil surface.
Organic cotton is manufactured from organically grown cotton plants.
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Sarah Kennedy,
Fashion Model
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The cotton fiber is from the cotton plant's seed pod The fiber is hollow in the center and, under a microscope looks like a twisted ribbon.
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Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder
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It is axiomatic that a farmer who plants cotton will reap a cotton crop and not corn if the seed comes up at all.
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Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist
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Students examine cotton plants that have been either transformed with a gene (Bt gene) that produces a toxin to certain caterpillar pest, or not transformed.
And Monsanto has engineered cotton plants that produce their own protein insecticide.
Although farmers are starting to raise cotton plants that are genetically modified to make a natural insecticide inside the boll, some still lose part of their crop to the insect.
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Bob Greenberg,
Congressional Candidate
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There is already rapid spread of unregulated plants in developing countries; the illegal cotton in India and the controversial contamination of Mexican landraces are only two well-publicized examples.
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Brian Mengel,
Civil Servant
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Herbicide-tolerant cotton provides greater flexibility for the timing of herbicide applications for effective weed control and less damage to the cotton plants.
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Borg Svemann,
Woodworker
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Cotton and silk textiles and wood furniture are manufactured, and there are large hydroelectric plants in the north.
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Shane Kelly,
Bar Tender
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Expression of this gene in cotton plants showed that Bt toxin levels were increased by 100 times and that Bt toxin constituted 0.
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