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Cloning of cry 2 Aa gene from an indigenous isolate of Bacillus thuringiensis

Volume : 88
Issue: Apr-jun
Pages: 198 - 202
Published: June 22, 2023
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Abstract


By using the cry24a operon specific primers, DNA fragments of about 4.0 kb were amplified at 55°C annealing temperature without any non-specific amplification from a new Bt strain 47-8 and cloned in pGEM-T(3.0 kb) vector. Double digestion with Sall and Sphl enzymes showed fragments of expected size (3, 4kb) in recombinant clones and one of the positive clones is designated as pTN2A (7.0 kb). Nucleotide sequencing of Bt DNA fragment cloned in pTN2A was carried out with M13F and M13R primers. Totally 983 bases have been sequenced in the insert DNA of pTN2A. Comparison of sequence data obtained from the cloned DNA fragment of Bt strain 47-8 showed 97 to 98 per cent homology to the holotype cry2Aa operon. Hence, cloning of cry24a gene of Bt strain 47-8 is confirmed.

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198 - 202
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© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Madras Agricultural Students' Union in Madras Agricultural Journal (MAJ). This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited by the user.

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Bacillus thuringiensis Cry2Aa Cry2Aa
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