Mediterranean Sounds, Croatia's Mystic Voices: Klapa FA Lindo

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Transgenic Maize, Bacillus Thuringiensis, Genetically Modified Food Controversies, Genetically Modified Food, Transgenic Plant, Monsanto Canada Inc. V. Schmeiser, Golden Rice, International Trade of Genetically Modified Foods, Pharming, Enviropig, Ice-Minus Bacteria, Detection of Genetically Modified Organisms, Genetically Modified Plant, Flavr Savr, Bt Brinjal, Mon 863, Transplastomic Plant, Traceability of Genetically Modified Organisms, Brownbagging, Pollen Barrier, Corngate, Jasmati, Prajateerpu, Mon 810, Transgenic Rice, Roundup Ready Crops, Roundup Ready Soybeans. Excerpt: Bacillus thuringiensis Bacillus thuringiensis (or Bt ) is a Gram-positive , soil-dwelling bacterium , commonly used as a biological alternative to a pesticide ; alternatively, the toxin may be extracted and itself used as a pesticide. Additionally , B. thuringiensis also occurs naturally in the gut of caterpillars of various types of moths and butterflies , as well as on the dark surface of plants. Discovery and study B. thuringiensis was first discovered in 1901 by Japanese biologist Shigetane Ishiwatari. In 1911 it was rediscovered in Germany by Ernst Berliner, who isolated it as the cause of a disease called Schlaffsucht in flour moth caterpillars. In 1976, Zakharyan reported the presence of a plasmid in a strain of B. thuringiensis and suggested its involvement in endospore and crystal formation. B. thuringiensis is closely related to B.cereus , a soil bacterium, and B.anthracis , the cause of anthrax : the three organisms differ mainly in their plasmids . Like other members of the genus, all three are aerobes capable of producing endospores . Upon sporulation, B. thuringiensis forms crystals of proteinaceous insecticidal -endotoxins (called crystal proteins or Cry proteins), which are encoded by cr...