Bacillus thuringiensis

In this article: Bt toxins, Toxin, and Washington

Stating that biotechnology offered great scope for enhancing yield and quality of the agricultural produce, the Scientist said when Bt cotton was allowed for commercial cultivation in 2002, several NGOs opposed the technology and the...

In this article: Bt cotton, India, Climate change, and Tamil Nadu Agricultural University

...the eggs, or, if you have many affected plants, spraying them with Bt, a microbial pesticide. It's based on the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis, variety kurstaki. Since it works best when the caterpillars are very small, start spraying a...

In this article: Culprit, Pesticide, Spinosad, Phosphate, and Northern California

...withdrawn a GM product (or two products) at the eleventh hour. It was insane in the first place to seek to pass GM maize crops containing Bt toxins and "growth enhancers" straight into the human food chain (13). In addition, EFSA and the...

In this article: Monsanto, EFSA, Maize, Toxin, Kevin Rudd, Bt toxins, Cancer, and Allergy

...I learned that it is the light brown apple moth (or LBAM, as they called it). I am now controlling further damage with Bt (Bacillus thuringiensis). I don't know how to treat my 7-year-old blueberries, which were severely damaged by this...

In this article: Blueberry, San Francisco, Biological pesticide, Nitrogen, and Ammonium

...agreements farmers sign when they buy the seed. The requirements are intended to ensure that when insects develop resistance to the Bt toxin, there are nonresistant insects around that they can mate with, preventing the resistance from being...

In this article: EPA, Bt cotton, Toxin, Insecticide, Environmental Protection Agency, and Monsanto Co.

...by Syngenta, Attribute sweet corn contains an added gene that kills some insects that try to eat it. The gene comes from bacillus thuringiensis. Please note that b.t. is also extensively used by organic farmes to control pests. The chief...

In this article: CSI, John Mackey, Technophobia, Corn on the cob, Botulism, Botulinum toxin, Jerry Mackey, Michael Crichton, and USDA

...launched in India, which has so far permitted commercial cultivation of only one genetically engineered crop -- bacillus thuringiensis or Bt cotton. Bt brinjal is a transgenic vegetable, which carries a gene called ''Bt'' from a bacterium,...

In this article: Insecticide, Toxin, and Punjab Agricultural University

...this could be the lowest output in the past four years,'' Sardarbhai Patel of Raghuvir Gining mill said. After the introduction of Bt cotton, Gujarat has witnessed a continuous rise in production, with the last year being an...

In this article: Maharashtra, Punjab, Bt cotton, Mumbai, and India

...Punjilal Ahuri received the body of his 16-year-old daughter, Haju Ben. She had apparently died of snake bite while working in the Bt cotton fields of Gujarat. That was the first time Punjilal got to know where his missing daughter had...

In this article: Bt cotton, Dungarpur, Coercion, and Deodhar