Sentences with phrase «bacillus thuringiensis»

If you look at Monsanto's research agenda, they are testing something like twenty crops at this point with BT (Bacillus thuringiensis) genes.

Gnatrol WDG's active ingredient seems to be Bacillus thuringiensis — a soil bacterium that kills insect larvae.

Synthetic chemicals have largely been responsible for accomplishing the task but the agricultural industry has more recently started a biological warfare campaign against insects with an organism known as Bacillus thuringiensis, or the Bt toxin.

Two traits account for nearly all GM crops planted: herbicide - tolerance (almost all glyphosate - tolerant or Roundup Ready) accounting for more than 80 percent of GM crops, and insect - resistance (Bt - crops engineered with toxins from the soil bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis to kill insect pests), accounting for 30 percent.19 (Eleven percent of GM crops have both traits.)

Choose insecticides that are more specific in the types of invertebrates they kill, such as Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) that kills only caterpillars that consume treated foliage.

Safety and advantages of Bacillus thuringiensis - protected plants to control insect pests.

Among research that has faced industry disapproval, says Benbrook, are studies on evolving weed resistance, on plant pathogens, and on susceptibility of non-pest insects to the Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt)- derived toxins that protect the GM plants against insect pests.

Lack of cross-reactivity between the Bacillus thuringiensis derived protein Cry1F in maize grain and dust mite Der p 7 protein with human sera positive for Der p 7 - IgE.

The bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) lives in the gut of caterpillars.

A LARGE body of literature has shown that genetically modified (GM) plants that produce proteins from the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) to protect themselves from insect pests have little to no effect on a wide range of non-target insects.

Toxic «parasporal» crystals of Bacillus thuringiensis.

The corn in question is genetically engineered to produce an insecticide that naturally occurs in the soil bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis (BT).

This type of cotton has been genetically engineered to produce a toxin from the soil bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis.

Economic impacts and impact dynamics of Bt (Bacillus thuringiensis) cotton in India.

Researchers at the CSIRO, Australia's national research organisation, have spliced a gene for a natural insecticide produced by the soil bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis into Australian cotton varieties.

Crops genetically engineered to produce proteins from the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis — or Bt — were introduced in 1996 and planted on more than 180 million acres worldwide during 2013.

Genetically engineered maize is created by introducing a gene into the plant genome that expresses a toxic protein from a bacterium, i.e. Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt).

Bt crops, including corn, are genetically engineered to produce proteins from the Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) bacterium.

Some commercial varieties of corn have been engineered with genes for a toxin borrowed from the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis, known as Bt, that kills the earworms when they eat the crop.

But one insecticide, a group of naturally occurring toxins produced by the soil bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis, is a much more lovable hero.

The permits enabled a group at Huazhong Agricultural University in Wuhan to produce two varieties of rice carrying a gene from the Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) bacteria that provides pest resistance.

DNA analyses of the Oaxaca corn revealed several signs of gene transfer from transgenic plants, including a gene of Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt), a bacterium that produces a toxin lethal to common pests.

Last week, however, the Philippines» Department of Agriculture gave the green light to YieldGard, a corn variety developed by seed giant Monsanto and approved in the U.S. that carries a foreign gene from the soil bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt).

Many plants, including some genetically altered ones, rely on a biologically produced insecticide called Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) for protection against pests.

Bacillus thuringiensis («Bt») is a naturally occurring bacterium that is lethal to most leaf - eating caterpillars on trees, shrubs, flowers and vegetables.

Evans traces the past century of incremental progress in the field of biotechnology by using the example of the soil - dwelling bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis.

Ciba's maize contains the gene from the soil bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis which is responsible for producing a toxin that kills insects.

The first genetically engineered pest - resistant crop on the market was a potato whose genes were complemented by those of Bacillus thuringiensis.

She points out that bioaugmentation is routinely carried out in agriculture: «Bacillus thuringiensis was introduced to control caterpillars.

Since 1996, farmers worldwide have planted more than a billion acres (400 million hectares) of genetically modified corn and cotton that produce insecticidal proteins from the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis, or Bt for short.

The first transgenic crop likely to be put forward for approval for open trials and commercial release is Bt cotton — which has added genes from the Bacillus thuringiensis bacterium, making the plant produce toxins that confer resistance to some insect pests.

The most commonly used biological pesticide is the Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis (Bti) bacteria.

By adding such a layer to the sound source of an ultrasound machine, he was able to destroy 99.9 percent of the spores in a colony of Bacillus thuringiensis, a relative of anthrax, without the use of any contact medium.

The stakes are especially high for defining and managing insect resistance to corn and cotton plants genetically engineered to produce proteins from the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt).

He also suggested that «there is a connection» between Bt cotton, a GM product that includes genes from Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) to make it pest - resistant, and farmers» suicides, referring to thousands of farmers who have committed suicide in the last few years due to indebtedness, mostly in cotton growing regions.

Bacterium effective when dusted on plants — The successful agent for destroying pesty insects, the microscopic bacterium, Bacillus thuringiensis, is most effective when it is dusted onto tobacco or other plants....

Basically, there are two solutions: remove by hand or apply Bacillus thuringiensis, an organic pesticide which disrupts their gut and causes them to starve to death.

Bacillus thuringiensis, rotenone, and Sevin are effective against the caterpillars.

The gene comes from the bacteria Bacillus thuringiensis, a biopesticide which in organic agriculture is sprayed directly onto crops to protect the plants from insects, Saletan explains.

Not exact matches

That was the case with a recent investigation that verified 11 strains of bacterium belonging to what microbiologists call the Bacillus anthracis, cereus, thuringiensis group, or Bacillus cereus group that had been previously reported in 2014.