If left unchecked, insect pests can devastate crops. To minimize damage and reduce the need for insecticide sprays, crops ...

Bt maize has revolutionized pest control and many farmers have benefited, but some people remain skeptical of this new technology. Bacillus thuringiensis is a species of bacteria that produces ...

For large infestations, use a biological control agent instead. The bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis subspecies israelensis, ...

The discovery could pave the way to starving antibioitc-resistant bacteria without new drugs or harmful chemicals.

The treatment consists of an application of a natural soil bacterium -- Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis (BTI) – attached to ground up corn cob, which targets mosquito larvae, blackflies ...

Genetically modified by insertion of genes from the soil bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis, the Bt cotton plants produce toxins that cause damaging bollworms on cotton to be lethargic and to die in ...

Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) is a soil bacterium which produces proteinaceous inclusion bodies during sporulation. The inclusion bodies contain genetically encoded insecticidal proteins with very ...

Other crops have been genetically modified to be resistant to insects. A bacterium called Bacillus thuringiensis naturally produces a toxin which kills many insects. The gene responsible for this ...

crop plants have been genetically engineered to produce proteins from the common bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis, or Bt. Unlike broad-spectrum insecticides, Bt proteins are active against ...