Mahyco has donated Bt brinjal technology to public research institutions to benefit a large number of resource-poor vegetable farmers in India. The Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU), Coimbatore, and the University of Agricultural Sciences (UAS), Dharwad have successfully back-crossed event EE-1 into locally adapted open-pollinated brinjal varieties. Both these institutions are testing and evaluating different open-pollinated Bt brinjal varieties under the multi-location research trials (MLRTs) and these varieties are likely to be made available to farmers in the near future.