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 ...

Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) is a Gram-positive, spore-forming bacterium that produces a range of proteinaceous toxins active against insect larvae. The primary insecticidal agents are crystalline ...

Bt maize has revolutionized pest control and many farmers have benefited, but some people remain skeptical of this new ...

Transgenic crops engineered to produce insecticidal proteins from the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) have transformed pest control across millions of hectares of corn and cotton worldwide. Yet ...

(Phys.org) -- Because they can modify plants to either produce better fruit or in many other cases ward off disease and pests, researchers genetically alter crop plants to increase yields without ...

Biologists at the University of California, San Diego have discovered that Bacillus thuringiensis, or Bt--a bacterium that produces natural protein insecticides that have been used by organic farmers ...

Researchers confirm earlier findings that the Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) toxin Cry1Ab produced for pesticidal purposes by genetically modified (GM) Bt maize increases mortality in the young ladybird ...

Widespread planting of corn hybrids designed to combat corn rootworm, the crop's most damaging pest in the Corn Belt, is reducing both the technology's effectiveness and some farmers' profits. The ...

Researchers at the University of Exeter published an impassioned defense of the biopesticide Bacillus thuringiensis, refuting a report by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) that the bacterium ...