Basf Agricultural Solutions Seed US LLC

Julia Daum

Vadim Beilinson

Veerle Habex

Hal Moser

Wendy Aartsen

Filip Slabbinck

Thomas W Kleven

Maxim Buyse

Michael McCarville

Axel Elling

Compositions and methods for conferring nematicidal activity to bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues and seeds are provided. In particular, methods for killing or controlling a nematode pest population, particularly aspp., e.g.,, root knot nematode, reniform nematode, or Lance nematode population, are provided. The methods include contacting the nematode pest with a pesticidally-effective amount of a polypeptide comprising a nematicidal toxin, particularly a nematicidal toxin active against aspp. nematode, e.g.. Further included are methods for increasing yield in plants by expressing the toxin of the invention.

Use of CRY14 for the control of nematode pests

The invention provides specific transgenic soybean plants, plant material and seeds, characterized in that these products harbor a specific nematode resistance and herbicide tolerance transformation event at a specific location in the soybean genome. Tools are also provided which allow rapid and unequivocal identification of the event in biological samples.

Elite event EE-GM5 and methods and kits for identifying such event in biological samples

Elite event EE-GM4 and methods and kits for identifying such event in biological samples

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Morrisville, NC, United States of America

Julia Daum