E.i. Dupont De Nemours and Company

Pioneer Hi-bred International, Inc.

Clement W K Waine

Albert Laurence Lu

Billy Fred McCutchen

James Kevin Presnail

Rafael Herrmann

Janet Ann Rice

Andre R Abad

Hua Dong

Xiaomei Shi

Takashi Yamamoto

Sue B Lo

Mark J Nelson

Susan B Lo

Mark Nelson

The invention provides nucleic acids, and variants and fragments thereof, obtained from strains ofencoding polypeptides having pesticidal activity against insect pests, including Lepidoptera. Particular embodiments of the invention provide isolated nucleic acids encoding pesticidal proteins, pesticidal compositions, DNA constructs, and transformed microorganisms and plants comprising a nucleic acid of the embodiments. These compositions find use in methods for controlling pests, especially plant pests.

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The present invention relates to isolated nucleic acids encoding plant cyclotides. The invention also relates to the construction of a chimeric gene encoding all or a portion of the plant cyclotides, in sense or antisense orientation, wherein expression of the chimeric gene results in the production of altered levels of plant cyclotides in a transformed host cell.

Insecticidal plant cyclotide with activity against homopteran insects

Nucleic acid molecules encoding cyclotide polypeptides and methods of use

Insecticidal plant cyclotide with activity against Homopteran insects

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Newark, DE, United States of America

Clement W K Waine