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How has the bacterium Bacillus thuringiens is helped us in controlling caterpillars of insect pests?

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Bacillus thuringiensis produts are endotoxin which when ingested and released in the gut of the larvae of insect pest disrupts the insect gut lining thereby killing them.
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