Crop biotech major Monsanto and its Indian partner Mahyco [...] are conducting trials of a new variety of GM cotton in which Bollgard II has been integrated with Monsanto’s round up ready flex technology to give farmers better weed control in Bt cotton fields. [...] ”We hope to generate all data required for the regulatory approval by early 2011,” Gyanendra Shukla, director of Monsanto told Deccan Herald here. The new GM cotton will allow farmers to spray a Monsanto’s proprietary weed-killer, Round up, most parts of the season.