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Bacillus thuringiensis

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Bacillus thuringiensis

Soil bacterium that produces pesticidal toxins. Once in the gut of an insect larva, the bacteria produce crystalline toxins that eventually cause the gut to become fatally paralysed. A gene from B thuringiensis was inserted into US maize plants in 1995, to produce genetically modified maize with built-in resistance to the European corn-borer.



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For example, the virulent insect pathogen Bacillus thuringiensis is genetically closely related to the human pathogen Bacillus anthracis, the cause of anthrax (3).
Nematode symbiont for photorhabdus asymbiotica by Waterfield, Nick R. / Emerging Infectious Diseases
A bacterium known as Bacillus thuringiensis produces a toxin that kills a variety of insects, including moths and mosquitoes.
Insecticide gets help from gut bacteria by Science News
Monsanto has made pest-resistant varieties with a gene from Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt), a bacterium that kills certain types of insects.
Genetically modified foods: breeding uncertainty by Schmidt, Charles W. / Environmental Health Perspectives
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