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SUBMITTER: Fatima N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC10060249 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Fatima Naureen N Bibi Zuhra Z Rehman Abdul A Bukhari DilAra Abbas DA
Saudi journal of biological sciences 20230301 4
The current study was designed to evaluate the biotoxicity of screened echo-friendly <i>Bacillus thuringiensis</i> strains from different areas of Pakistan. Out of 50 samples, 36% <i>Bt.</i> isolates were quarantined from soil containing cattle waste after morphological, biochemical, and molecular characterization. The toxicity bioassays with <i>Bt.</i> spores and protein diet proved that 11 <i>Bt.</i> isolates were utmost noxious to 3rd instar larvae of mosquitoes <i>Aedes aegypti, Anopheles st ...[more]