| diversity and toxicity of bacillus thuringiensis from shifting cultivation (jhum) habitat. | bacillus thuringiensis (bt) strains were isolated from jhum-agriculture, jhum-forest, aquatic and fallow soil samples from mizoram by acetate selection method. isolates were characterized for biochemical typing, cry gene and protein profiling, growth curve study and toxicity against culex tritaeniorhynchus. bt frequency was high in jhum-agriculture land (69.56%) whereas low in jhum-forest soils (31.57%). bt was found to be abundant in jhum shifting cultivation soil with an index ranging between ... | 2016 | 27350428 |