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A corn farmer has perennial problem of corn-borer infestation in his crop. Being environmentally conscious he does want to spray insecticides. Suggest solution based on your knowledge of biotechnology. Write the steps to be carried out to achieve it.

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With the advent of genetic engineering, genes for insect resistance now can be moved into plants with more resistance and deliberately. Bt technology is only one example of ways genetic engineering may be used to develop insect resistant crops now and in the future. Bt proteins are lethal to insects and transfer the gene into crop plants.
Steps Involved are:
(i) Identification of a strain of Bt that kills the targeted insect.
(ii) Isolation of gene that produces the lethal protein.
(iii) Gene is removed from the Bt bacterium and a gene conferring resistance to a chemical usually antibiotic or herbicide is attached.
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