A wild-typecrygene has a low GþC content, many po-tential polyadenylation sites (18), and numerous ATTTA se-quences. It is expressed poorly in plants as a full length or as a
truncated gene. A synthetic type cry gene was designed by
mutagenesis with plant preferred codons, low AþT per-centage and increased GþC concentration. This synthetic
gene got expressed 500 times more than wild type in Trans-genic tobacco and showed complete protection toward beet