The plasmids from the transformed E. coli DH5a white colonies were confirmed for the presence of recombinant construct pTZ57R/T – cry2A using PCR and restriction analysis. Sin- gle digestion with EcoRI resulted in 4.7 kb fragment and double
digestion with EcoRI and HindIII released vector (2.8 kb) and insert (1.9 kb). The recombinant plasmid was sequenced using M13/pUC forward sequencing primer ( 20) and M13/pUC reverse sequencing primer ( 26) using DNA sequencer (ABI 3730xl Genetic) at Xcel- ris Labs Ltd, Gujarat, India. The open reading frame of gene consisted of 1902 bases. The PCR product was digested in vitro with a non- cutter (HindIII) and cutter (EcoRII) endonuclease as revealed by in silico digestion (web cutter 2.0; http://bio.biomedicine.gu.se/ cutter2) of previously reported cry2A type sequences and our newly obtained cry2A gene sequence.