This variety was designed to give the plant resistance to lepidopteran insects like the brinjal fruit and shoot borer ( " Leucinodes orbonalis " ) and fruit borer ( " Helicoverpa armigera " ).
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In July 2010, UPLB announced that the " Leucinodes orbonalis "-resistant " Bacillus thuringiensis " ( Bt ) eggplant variety that it had been developing with Cornell University and Mahyco was ready for commercialization.