After writing about the fig beetle – a shiny green scarab beetle that feeds on overripe fruit and decomposing organic matter ...

Few GM tree species have as yet been deployed commercially. Two notable exceptions are the following: Bacillus thuringiensis toxin (Bt)-expressing poplar trees in China; and papaya trees ...

It’s the year 2050, and the world's population has just passed 9 billion people. Economic growth has lifted hundreds of ...

Another example is the engineering of insect-resistant plants by the addition of the gene for one of the insecticidal toxins of Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt). The financial returns that result from ...

LEFT: These zucchini came from a diseased plant. ABOVE: Diseased plants with a virus are seen in the foreground with healthy ...

Are you yearning to infuse your garden with a burst of vibrant color? Look no further than zinnia flowers. These dazzling ...

Another option is to use Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt), a natural bacterial insecticide, which targets caterpillars without ...

For instance, five million farmers in India are engaged in planting 7.6 million hectares of Bt or Bacillus thuringiensis, cotton, which protects itself from insects without requiring external ...

Examples of crops already approved for commercial production by government regulatory agencies are cotton, corn, and potatoes engineered to express a gene from the soil bacterium Bacillus ...

which contains genes from the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis that help it ward off corn borers and other pests. Reports from China indicate that harmful aphids have decreased—and ladybugs and ...

Nelson F. B. Phillips Biochemical mechanisms of tissue-specific transcription factors. Marianne Pusztai-Carey Structure and function of the insecticidal proteins expressed by the Bacillus ...

Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China ...