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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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