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Estibaliz Sansinenea
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Autónoma de Puebla, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Benemérita Universidad, Puebla, Mexico
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- Great team of experts gathered in this book
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Bacillus thuringiensis: An Environmentally Safety Alternative
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- Zenas George, Neil Crickmore
Pages 19-39
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- Mohd Amir Fursan Abdullah
Pages 87-92
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- Alvaro M. Florez, Cristina Osorio, Oscar Alzate
Pages 93-113
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Genetics of Bacillus Thuringiensis
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Front Matter
Pages 115-115
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- Ole Andreas Økstad, Anne-Brit Kolstø
Pages 117-129
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- Gislayne T. Vilas-Bôas, Clelton A. Santos
Pages 159-174
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- Alejandra Ochoa-Zarzosa, Joel Edmundo López-Meza
Pages 175-184
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- Chengchen Xu, Yan Wang, Chan Yu, Lin Li, Minshun Li, Jin He et al.
Pages 185-199
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- Lobna Abdelkefi-Mesrati, Slim Tounsi
Pages 201-214
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BT as Biopesticide: Applications in Biotechnology
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Front Matter
Pages 229-229
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- Anais S. Castagnola, Juan Luis Jurat-Fuentes
Pages 283-304
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- Bruce G. Hammond, Michael S. Koch
Pages 305-325
About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
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Autónoma de Puebla, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Benemérita Universidad, Puebla, Mexico
Estibaliz Sansinenea