Bacillus thuringiensis Biotechnology

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Sansinenea, Estibaliz (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Θέματα: Chemistry.; Biotechnology.; Microbiology.; Life sciences.; Agriculture.; Applied Microbiology.; Life Sciences, general.

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 ins...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Index Of Contributors
• Preface
• PART I BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS: AN ENVIRONMENTALLY SAFETY ALTERNATIVE
• 1 Discovery and description of Bacillus thuringiensis
• 2 Bacillus thuringiensis applications in agriculture
• 3 Risk Assessment of Bt Transgenic Crops
• 4 Use and efficacy of Bt compared to less environmentally safe alternatives
• 5 Protein Engineering of Bacillus thuringiensis δ-Endotoxins
• PART II  GENETICS OF BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS
•  6 Evolution of the Bacillus cereus group
• 7 Bacillus thuringiensis genetics and phages - from transduction and sequencing to recombineering
• 8 Conjugation in Bacillus thuringiensis: insights into the plasmids exchange process
• 9  Shuttle vectors of Bacillus thuringiensis
• 10 Construction and application in plasmid vectors of Bacillus cereus group
• 11 Recombination in Bacillus thuringiensis
• 12 Genetic improvement of Bt strains and development of novel biopesticides
• PART III BT AS BIOPESTICIDE: APPLICATIONS IN BIOTECHNOLOGY
•  13 Genetically Modified Bacillus thuringiensis Biopesticides
• 14 Bacillus thuringiensis Recombinant Insecticidal Protein Production
• 15 Bt crops: past and future
• 16 A Review of the Food Safety of Bt Crops
• PART IV OTHER BACILLUS SPECIES IN BIOTECHNOLOGY
• 17 The most important Bacillus species in biotechnology
• 18 Secondary metabolites of Bacillus: potentials in biotechnology
• 19 Future challenges and prospects of Bacillus thuringiensis.