Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.

E.i. Dupont De Nemours and Company

E. I. Du Pont Nemours and Co.

Jianzhou Zhao

Phillip A Patten

Lu Liu

Eric J Schepers

Genhai Zhu

Nasser Yalpani

Jennifer Kara Barry

Weiping Xie

Daniel J Altier

Xiaohong Zhong

Carol A Hendrick

Claudia D Perez-Ortega

John Lindsey Flexner

Deirdre M Kapka-Kitzman

Bruce H Stanley

Lisa Procyk

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.

Insecticidal proteins and methods for their use

Embodiments of the present invention relate to insecticidalCry1 and Cry2 polypeptides. Methods for using the polypeptides and nucleic acids of embodiments of the invention to synergistically enhance resistance of plants to insect predation are encompassed in embodiments of the present invention.

Protein mixtures for maize insect control

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Johnston, IA, United States of America

Jianzhou Zhao