Sentences with word «thuringiensis»

Huahui No. 1 is genetically modified rice inserted with genes coming from the Bacillus thuringiensis bacteria, giving the rice its own toxin to kill rice pests such as stem borers.

Romeis J, Dutton A and Bigler F (2004) Bacillus thuringiensis toxin (Cry1Ab) has no direct effect on larvae of the green lacewing Chrysoperla carnea (Stephens)(Neuroptera: Chrysopidae).

These B. thuringiensis toxins kill serious pests such as caterpillars, beetles and fly larvae, while sparing humans, spiders and most beneficial insects.

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.

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

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.

Jennifer Hammock split the classifications by NCBI Taxonomy from Bacillus thuringiensis Berliner 1915 (Approved Lists 1980) to their own page.

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

And, true to the form of a classical tragedy, one of the hero's greatest strengths, a biological pedigree, may contain the seeds of the B. thuringiensis toxin's undoing.

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.

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 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.

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

Since 1996, plants have been modified with genes from bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) that help them protect themselves from insects and synthetic pesticide sprays.

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.

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....

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.

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).

One example of such a product: The North American forest industry is using bacterial biopesticide Bacillus thuringiensis to fight defoliation.

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.

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.

In 2016, farmers worldwide planted more than 240 million acres (98 million hectares) of genetically modified corn, cotton and soybeans that produce insect - killing proteins from the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis, or Bt.

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

Researchers have long worried that crop - munching insects could become resistant to Bt, a toxin naturally produced by the microbe Bacillus thuringiensis that is harmless to most other organisms.

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

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

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

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.

The agrochemical giant has developed a line of seeds that are resistant to its multi-billion dollar a year herbicide, Roundup, and carry a gene from a soil bacterium called Bacillus thuringiensis.

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.

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

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.

It is calling for a 10 - year moratorium on field trials of any GM food crop as well as nonfood crops such as cotton equipped to produce an insect - killing toxin from Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt).

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

Last year, an estimated 24 % of corn and 5 % of cotton grown worldwide carried genes for a toxin derived from the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt).

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).

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.

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

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

The GM cotton planted by the farmers was Bt cotton, which contains genes from Bacillus thuringiensis, a soil bacterium often used by organic farmers.

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

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.

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

One big example is Bacillus thuringiensis, a bacterium commonly known as Bt, which is used as a pesticide.

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.