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Biotechnology and its Applications
www.ncert.nic.inBt toxin is produced by a bacterium called Bacillus t huringiensis ( Bt for short). Bt toxin gene has been cloned from the bacteria and been expressed in plants to provide resistance to insects without the need for insecticides; in effect created a bio-pesticide. Examples are Bt cotton, Bt corn, rice, tomato, potato and soyabean etc.
United States Department of Agriculture
www.ers.usda.govThe quantity applied to cotton trended downward since 1972 due to the replacement of DDT and other older insecticides with more effective products, eradication of the boll weevil, and adoption of Bt cotton. Wheat accounted for less than 5 percent of the pesticides, mostly herbicides, in 2008. How Was the Study Conducted?
TRANSGENIC BT COTTON
www.cicr.org.inreferred to as transgenic. In other words, genetically engineered organisms are called transgenics. A transgenic may be a plant, an animal or a microbe. Transgenic plants contain foreign gene or genetically modified gene of the same species. The foreign gene may be from a