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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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Gore is currently researching resistance management plans for lepidopteran pests on genetically engineered Bt cotton and the timing of cotton bollworm adults emerging from corn, soybean, grain sorghum and conventional cotton.
Cotton Journal by Farm Journal
Bt cotton makes a bacterial toxin that tends to kill moths and butterflies.
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Five years after Bt cotton was first grown by four million small farmers in the Yellow River region of northern China, "the benefits continue," according to a 2002 study in The Plant Journal.
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