MADISON -- The world's most widely used organic insecticide, a plucky bacterium known as Bacillus thuringiensis or Bt for short, requires the assistance of other microbes to perform its insect-slaying ...

Journal of Plant Diseases and Protection, Vol. 123, No. 2 (April 2016), pp. 59-64 (6 pages) BUPM95 is a Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. kurstaki strain producing the Vip3Aa16 protoxin with an ...

Researchers at The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD), led by Dr. Lee Bulla, have characterized a protein produced by the soil bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. israelensis (Bti), which is ...

Is the supposed safety advantage of GMO crops over conventional chemical pesticides a mirage? According to biotech lore, the Bt (Bacillus thuringiensis) pesticides introduced into many GMO food crops ...

(Beyond Pesticides, April 21, 2023) Into the annals of “entropic methods of agricultural pest control” arrives recent research showing that pests are, unsurprisingly, developing resistance to a ...

The world’s most widely used organic insecticide relies on an insect’s normal gut flora to do its dirty work, a new study suggests. A bacterium known as Bacillus thuringiensis produces a toxin that ...

THE lethality of Bacillus thuringiensis to many lepidopterous larvae has led to its development as a “biological insecticide”. Products based on this bacterium contain two active ingredients, the ...

A toxin from the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis is lethal to nematode eggs. Exposure of eggs of the ruminant nematode Trichostrongylus colubriformis to the toxin significantly increased ...