Corn rootworms, pests responsible for billions of dollars in yearly crop losses, are evolving resistance that weakens even the latest biotechnology controls, according to a new study published in the ...

Scientists at the University of California, San Diego and Yale University have discovered that a natural protein produced by Bacillus thuringiensis, a bacterium sprayed on crops by organic farmers to ...

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 work, a ...

A major challenge in bacterial developmental biology is to understand how the bacteria determine their fate at the cell level (Losick and Desplan, 2008; Lopez et al., 2009). To date, this question has ...

https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/science/soil-bacteria-bt-has-a-life-beyond-gm-crops/article9952690.ece Copy Soil bacteria, Bacillus thuringiensis or Bt ...

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 ...

Natural born killer A new bacterial insecticide that is deadly against a wide range of insects could be approved within three to four years, say researchers. "Yersinia is quite famous because Yersinia ...