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Bt toxins produced in Bacillus thuringiensis is not toxic to it, why?

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Bt toxins produced in Bacillus thuringiensis is not toxic to it because it is produced in an inactivated form, it gets activated in the gut of larvae because of alkaline secretion in gut of larvae.
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