Pioneer Hi-bred International, Inc.

E.i. Dupont De Nemours and Company

Corteva Agriscience LLC

Julie Qi

Eric J Schepers

Jennifer Kara Barry

Janet Ann Rice

James J English

Azalea S Ong

Deborah Clark

Guihua Lu

Xu Hu

Jennifer S Tallman

Yaxin Li

Janet A Rice

Deborah W Clark

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

A method for improving the sensitivity of an assay to determine the pathogenicity of a plant root pathogen using a soil amendment is presented. The method involves growing the plant root in the presence of a soil amendment after exposure of the plant root to the pathogen. A method of breeding plants is also provided.

Assay for plant root pathogen activity

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Urbandale, IA, United States of America

Julie Qi