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Bacillus thuringiensis Biotechnology

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  • © 2012

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  1. Estibaliz Sansinenea

    1. Autónoma de Puebla, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Benemérita Universidad, Puebla, Mexico

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages 1-1
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  2. Bacillus thuringiensis: An Environmentally Safety Alternative

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Discovery and Description of Bacillus thuringiensis

      • Estibaliz Sansinenea
      Pages 3-18

    3. Bacillus thuringiensis Applications in Agriculture

      • Zenas George, Neil Crickmore
      Pages 19-39

    4. Risk Assessment of Bt Transgenic Crops

      • Sarvjeet Kaur
      Pages 41-85

    5. Use and Efficacy of Bt Compared to Less Environmentally Safe Alternatives

      • Mohd Amir Fursan Abdullah
      Pages 87-92

    6. Protein Engineering of Bacillus thuringiensis δ-Endotoxins

      • Alvaro M. Florez, Cristina Osorio, Oscar Alzate
      Pages 93-113

  3. Genetics of Bacillus Thuringiensis

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 115-115
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    2. Evolution of the Bacillus cereus Group

      • Ole Andreas Økstad, Anne-Brit Kolstø
      Pages 117-129

    3. Bacillus thuringiensis Genetics and Phages—From Transduction and Sequencing to Recombineering

      • Alexei Sorokin
      Pages 131-157

    4. Conjugation in Bacillus thuringiensis: Insights into the Plasmids Exchange Process

      • Gislayne T. Vilas-Bôas, Clelton A. Santos
      Pages 159-174

    5. Shuttle Vectors of Bacillus thuringiensis

      • Alejandra Ochoa-Zarzosa, Joel Edmundo López-Meza
      Pages 175-184

    6. Construction and Application in Plasmid Vectors of Bacillus cereus Group

      • Chengchen Xu, Yan Wang, Chan Yu, Lin Li, Minshun Li, Jin He et al.
      Pages 185-199

    7. Recombination in Bacillus thuringiensis

      • Lobna Abdelkefi-Mesrati, Slim Tounsi
      Pages 201-214

    8. Genetic Improvement of Bt Strains and Development of Novel Biopesticides

      • Vincent Sanchis
      Pages 215-228

  4. BT as Biopesticide: Applications in Biotechnology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 229-229
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    2. Genetically Modified Bacillus thuringiensis Biopesticides

      • Lin Li, Ziniu Yu
      Pages 231-258

    3. Bacillus thuringiensis Recombinant Insecticidal Protein Production

      • H. Ernest Schnepf
      Pages 259-281

    4. Bt Crops: Past and Future

      • Anais S. Castagnola, Juan Luis Jurat-Fuentes
      Pages 283-304

    5. A Review of the Food Safety of Bt Crops

      • Bruce G. Hammond, Michael S. Koch
      Pages 305-325
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Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) has been used as a biopesticide in agriculture, forestry and mosquito control because of its advantages of specific toxicity against target insects, lack of polluting residues and safety to non-target organisms. The insecticidal properties of this bacterium are due to insecticidal proteins produced during sporulation. Despite these ecological benefits, the use of Bt biopesticides has lagged behind the synthetic chemicals. Genetic improvement of Bt natural strains, in particular Bt recombination, offers a promising means of improving efficacy and cost-effectiveness of Bt-based bioinsecticide products to develop new biotechnological applications. On the other hand, the different Bacillus species have important biotechnological applications; one of them is carried out by producing secondary metabolites, which are the study object of natural product chemistry. The amazing structural variability of these compounds has attracted the curiosity of chemists and the biological activities possessed by natural products have inspired the pharmaceutical industry to search for lead structures in microbial extracts. Screening of microbial extracts reveals the large structural diversity of natural compounds with broad biological activities, such as antimicrobial, antiviral, immunosuppressive, and antitumor activities that enable the bacterium to survive in its natural environment. These findings widen the target range of Bacillus spp., in special B. thuringiensis, besides insecticidal activity and help people to better understand its role in soil ecosystem.

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  • Autónoma de Puebla, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Benemérita Universidad, Puebla, Mexico

    Estibaliz Sansinenea

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