Inventors:
Carol A. Hendrick - Des Moines IA,
Lu Liu - Palo Alto CA,
Phillip A. Patten - Menlo Park CA,
Claudia D. Perez-Ortega - Wilmington DE,
Eric J. Schepers - Port Deposit MD,
Weiping Xie - East Palo Alto CA,
Nasser Yalpani - Johnston IA,
Jianzhou Zhao - Johnston IA,
Xiaohong Zhong - San Leandro CA,
Genhai Zhu - San Jose CA,
Assignee:
E.I Du PONT de NEMOURS and COMPANY - Wilmington DE
PIONEER HI BRED INTERNATIONAL INC - Johnston IA
International Classification:
C07K 14/195
C12N 15/82
A01N 63/02
US Classification:
800279, 435418, 4353201, 514 45, 530350, 536 237, 800300, 800301, 800302
Abstract:
Compositions and methods for controlling pests are provided. The methods involve transforming organisms with a nucleic acid sequence encoding an insecticidal protein. In particular, the nucleic acid sequences are useful for preparing plants and microorganisms that possess insecticidal activity. Thus, transformed bacteria, plants, plant cells, plant tissues and seeds are provided. Compositions are insecticidal nucleic acids and proteins of bacterial species. The sequences find use in the construction of expression vectors for subsequent transformation into organisms of interest including plants, as probes for the isolation of other homologous (or partially homologous) genes. The pesticidal proteins find use in controlling, inhibiting growth or killing Lepidopteran, Coleopteran, Dipteran, fungal, Hemipteran and nematode pest populations and for producing compositions with insecticidal activity.