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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Soil bacteria, Bacillus thuringiensis or Bt, became famous for its connection with genetically modified crops such as Bt cotton and Bt brinjal. But it has its use in agriculture beyond GM crops. A ...

Sometimes scientists get it wrong and have to revise the conventional wisdom they helped create. A bacterium known as Bacillus thuringiensis produces a toxic crystal that has been identified as a ...

The basic idea of refuge crops is all about bug sex. About 88 percent of corn grown in the United States is genetically modified in some way. Most is what’s called Bt corn, meaning it’s been modified ...