LAHORE: (August 6): Ms Deeba Noreen Baig, a PhD scholar working with Prof A R Shakoori of Punjab University’s School of Biological Sciences (SBS), has discovered a environment friendly Bio-Insecticide from bacteria that can be used against cotton pests/insects.

Defending her PhD thesis entitled ‘Cloning and Molecular Characterization of cry1Ac Gene from Local Isolates of Bacillus thuringiensis’ in a public seminar attended by Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Mujahid Kamran, Director SBS Prof Dr A R Shakoori, Director SBS Prof Dr Javed Iqbal, Registrar Prof Dr Muhammad Naeem Khan, senior faculty members, research scholars and students, Deeba Noreen Baig highlighted the importance of the finding and said that commercial trials in coming years will clear the genetically engineered product for commercial use by Pakistani companies.