• HT Cotton or Herbicide Tolerant Cotton is also known as BG-III cotton is innovation in Bt Cotton as it takes care of weeds problem at much lower cost compared to physical labour required for weeding. It contains Round-up Flex (RRF) gene.
• The RRF herbicide tolerant trait was developed and commercialised by US based multinational giant Monsanto.

It was in news because the DBT under Ministry of Science and Technology has constituted Field Inspection and Scientific Evaluation Committee to investigate matter of illegal cultivation of HT or BG-III cotton.