| Title |
Bacillus thuringiensis: a successful insecticide with new environmental features and tidings
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, February 2017
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| DOI | 10.1007/s00253-017-8175-y |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Gholamreza Salehi Jouzani, Elena Valijanian, Reza Sharafi |
| Abstract |
Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) is known as the most successful microbial insecticide against different orders of insect pests in agriculture and medicine. Moreover, Bt toxin genes also have been efficiently used to enhance resistance to insect pests in genetically modified crops. In light of the scientific advantages of new molecular biology technologies, recently, some other new potentials of Bt have been explored. These new environmental features include the toxicity against nematodes, mites, and ticks, antagonistic effects against plant and animal pathogenic bacteria and fungi, plant growth-promoting activities (PGPR), bioremediation of different heavy metals and other pollutants, biosynthesis of metal nanoparticles, production of polyhydroxyalkanoate biopolymer, and anticancer activities (due to parasporins). This review comprehensively describes recent advances in the Bt whole-genome studies, the last updated known Bt toxins and their functions, and application of cry genes in plant genetic engineering. Moreover, the review thoroughly describes the new features of Bt which make it a suitable cell factory that might be used for production of different novel valuable bioproducts. |
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| United Kingdom | 2 | 50% |
| Unknown | 2 | 50% |
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| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Scientists | 2 | 50% |
| Members of the public | 1 | 25% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 25% |
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| Country | Count | As % |
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| United States | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 358 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
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| Student > Bachelor | 55 | 15% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 50 | 14% |
| Student > Master | 46 | 13% |
| Researcher | 30 | 8% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 18 | 5% |
| Other | 40 | 11% |
| Unknown | 120 | 33% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 98 | 27% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 69 | 19% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 20 | 6% |
| Chemistry | 11 | 3% |
| Unspecified | 6 | 2% |
| Other | 27 | 8% |
| Unknown | 128 | 36% |
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