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What are biopesticides ? Give the scientific name and use of the first commercially used biopesticide in the world.

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The biological agent which are used to control weeds, insects and pathogen are called biopesticides. The micro-organisms that are used as biopesticides are some viruses, bacteria, fungi and their products. The Bacterium bacillus thuringiensis was the first biopesticide to be used on commercial scale.

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