Bacillus thuringiensis and Lysinibacillus sphaericus (eBook)

Dr. Lidia Mariana Fiuza – PhD (ENSAM-Montpellier/France), is currently Researcher at Instituto Riograndense do Arroz (IRGA) and member of the Agricultural Sciences Commitee at Research Foundation of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. She specializes in the areas of toxicology, microbiology, and entomology, with an emphasis in bacteriology and acting on the following topics: Bacillus thuringiensis and correlates; genes cry; insecticidal proteins; plants-Bt; toxin interactions; microbial control of pests and diseases. As innovation and technology activities, she is a partner in the Control_Agro_Bio Pesquisa e Defesa Agropecuária Ltda., which is currently accredited in the Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture as a Collaborating Center for Pest Risk Analysis – ARP, Section of Agricultural Defense, Department of Plant Protection.Dr. Ricardo Antonio Polanczyk – PhD (ESALQ/USP), is currently Assistant Professor at UNESP. Before this, he was at UFES, working with Dr. Pratissoli in IPM systems.  Microbial control of agricultural pests is his main field of research, including the interactions between microbial control agents and pesticides and Bt plants.  In 2014 he took part in the course "Risk Analysis: Role of Science in GMO Decision-making" in the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (Trieste- Italy).Dr. Neil Crickmore – PhD (University of Warwick), is currently Senior Lecturer in Molecular Genetics, University of Sussex and Adjunct Professor State Key Laboratory for the Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China. Before, he was Research Associate at University of Cambridge. Widely heralded today as a leading figure in Bacillus thuringiensis research. Chair and webmaster of International Bacillus thuringiensis toxin nomenclature committee; Convenor of the Bacterial Division of the IOBC/WPRS.  

ForewordLidia Mariana Fiuza, Ricardo Polanczyk and Neil Crickmore (Editors of the book)PrefaceLeon RabinovitchChapter 1. Bacillus thuringiensis characterization: morphology, physiology, biochemistry, pathotype, cellular and molecular aspectsLeon Rabinovitch, Vilmar Machado, Neiva Knaak, Diouneia Lisiane Berlitz, Ricardo Polanczyk and Lidia Mariana Fiuza

Chapter 2. The biology, ecology and taxonomy of Bacillus thuringiensis and related bacteriaBen Raymond

Chapter 3. Bacillus thuringiensis toxin classificationNeil Crickmore

Chapter 4. Insecticidal proteins from Bacillus thuringiensis and their mechanism of action Alejandra Bravo, Sabino Pacheco, Isabel Gómez, Blanca Garcia-Gómez, Janette Onofre and Mario Soberón

Chapter 5. Effect of Bacillus thuringiensis on parasitoids and predatorsSergio Antonio De Bortoli, Alessandra Marieli Vacari, Ricardo Antonio Polanczyk, Ana Carolina Pires Veiga and Roberto Marchi Goulart

Chapter 6. Characterization of Bacillus thuringiensis using plasmid patterns, AFLP and rep-PCRFernando Hercos Valicente and Rosane Bezerra da Silva

Chapter 7. New sequencing technologies and genomic analysis applied to Bacillus thuringiensisRoberto Franco Teixeira Correia, Anne Caroline Mascarenhas dos Santos, Raimundo Wagner de Souza Aguiar, Bergmann Morais Ribeiro and Fernando Lucas Melo

Chapter 8. Expression of Bacillus thuringiensis in insect cellsBergmann Morais Ribeiro, Érica Soares Martins, Raimundo Wagner de Souza Aguiar and Roberto Franco Teixeira Correia

Chapter 9. Bacillus thuringiensis: Different Targets and InteractionsLidia Mariana Fiuza, Diouneia Lisiane Berlitz, Jaime Vargas de Oliveira and Neiva Knaak

Chapter 10. Specificity and cross-order activity of Bacillus thuringiensis pesticidal proteinsKees van Frankenhuyzen

Chapter 11. The American Bacillus thuringiensis based biopesticides market

Ricardo Antonio Polanczyk, Kees van Frankenhuyzen and Giuliano Pauli

Chapter 12. Mass production, application, and market development of Bacillus thuringiensis Biopesticides in China

Lin Li, Zhenmin Chen and Ziniu Yu

Chapter 13. The role of Embrapa in the development of tools to control biological pests: a case of successRose Gomes Monnerat, Glaucia de Figueiredo Nachtigal, Ivan Cruz, Wagner Bettiol and Clara Beatriz Hoffman Campo

Chapter 14. Bacillus entomopathogenic based biopesticides in vector control programs in BrazilClara Fátima Gomes Cavados, Wanderli Pedro Tadei, Rosemary Aparecida Roque, Lêda Narcisa Regis, Claudia Maria Fontes de Oliveira, Helio Benites Gil and Carlos José Pereira da Cunha de Araujo-Coutinho

Chapter 15. Resistance of mosquitoes to entomopathogenic bacterial based larvicides: current status and strategies for management

Maria Helena Neves Lobo Silva-Filha

Chapter 16. The importance of Bacillus thuringiensis in the context of genetically modified plants in Brazil

Deise Maria Fontana Capalbo and Marise Tanaka Suzuki

Chapter 17.Resistance of Spodoptera frugiperda to Bacillus thuringiensis proteins in in the Western Hemisphere Samuel Martinelli, Renato Assis de Carvalho, Patrick Marques Dourado and Graham Phillip Head​