If you have moths or caterpillars bothering your garden, Bt (or Bacillus thuringiensis) is your best bet to wipe them out without harming beneficial insects. You can buy this organic pest control at ...

Bacillus thuringiensis is a Gram positive, soil-dwelling bacterium. Like all Bacillus species, it is rod-shaped and produces spores. Aside from being a close relative to Bacillus anthracis (the one ...

The cadherin receptor, BT-R3, of Anopheles gambiae reported in a new study mediates the killing action of the Cry4B mosquitocidal toxin. Characterization of the toxin-receptor complex will facilitate ...

Cornell University entomologist Anthony Shelton finds when engineered crops containing just one Bt toxin grow near modified plants with two toxins, insects may more rapidly develop resistance to all ...

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 ...

Critics often raise concern that genetically engineered crops might harm the environment or people who eat them. But now a new study finds that farmers who plant Bt corn reduce crop damage and ...

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 ...

newsletter signup “This is really the first field test of a resistance-management strategy for a Bt crop,” says Anthony M. Shelton of Cornell University. Starting in 1995, the Environmental Protection ...

Scientists are now able to insert the genes of Bacillus thuringiensis, or Bt, into farmers' crops in order to prevent a hostile takeover by pests. But what happens when the pests become resistant?

New Delhi [India], March 24: Peptech Biosciences Ltd. announced the successful acquisition of technology from the National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources (NBAIR), India. This groundbreaking ...

The European corn borer (ECB) consists of at least two., genetically differentiated host races: one feeding on maize, the other feeding on mugwort and hop. It is unclear to what extent individuals ...