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    • Close up of a Diamondback moth on a leaf.
    Rights: Olaf Leillinger Published 14 October 2013 Size: 700 KB Referencing Hub media

    A biological mechanism used by a native New Zealand soil bacterium to release toxins to kill crop pests like the diamondback moth may be used to generate new insecticides.

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      Poison comes in small packages

      A team of scientists from New Zealand and Australia has discovered the way in which a bacterium packages its toxins in a hollow protein shell and then releases them. They say the discovery could ...

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