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 | | These BT proteins have been found to be remarkably effective against a wide range of caterpillars and worms, including peach tree borers, European corn borers, cotton boll worms, cabbage worms and loopers, tomato and fruit hornworms, tent caterpillars, fall webworms, leaf miners, alfalfa caterpillars, leaf rollers, gypsy moth larvae and cankerworms. |
 | | ccording to T.D. Brock and M. Madigan (Biology of Microorganisms, 1988), Bacillus thuringiensis forms a crystalline protein during sporulation called a parasporal body. |
 | | The toxic component of the crystalline body is delta endotoxin. |
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