Heroes of the worm - Bacteria Thuring (Bacillus thuringiensis)

In the kingdom of microorganisms, there are many poachers of worms. Hundreds of thousands of years ago, they still silently helped people to kill pests, protect fields. Their achievements have only recently been discovered about 100 years ago.

In 1911, Bernard - a German, found in a flour mill in Thuringia, a parasitic bacterium in the insect's body, had the power to subtract very strong worms, called Thuring bacteria.

The Thuring area looked like a stick, less than 5 / 1000mm long. When it reaches a certain level, at one end will form an egg-shaped spore to reproduce, the other end to produce a block of rhombus or near a square. Because they are born simultaneously with the spores, people call them crystals, very poisonous. When the pest infests the crop, it is necessary to disintegrate Thuring, your crystal, which will destroy the digestive system of the worm, causing them to stop eating, vomiting, diarrhea; And the spore in the blood will cause anemia for the deep, eventually the dead.

Thuring bacterium has opened up a bright prospect of bio-pesticide measures. Currently, large-scale production of Thuring bacteria has been produced, and then processed into drugs such as Thuricide, Biotrol, Bathurin, etc., which kill hundreds of pests.