Evogene Ltd.

Marrone Bio Innovations, Inc.

Lisa N Meihls

Or Rotem

Pamela Gail Marrone

James Kevin Presnail

Sharon Ayal

Eyal Emmanuel

Debora Wilk

Ana-Lucia Cordova-Kreylos

Amit Vasavada

Brittany Pierce

Vaka S Reddy

Moshe Elbaz

Dhritiman Ghosh

Noam Ben Naim

Michal Simovitch Etkes

The present invention relates to isolated and recombinant polynucleotides encoding polypeptides having insecticidal activity and to host cells comprising same. The invention further relates to the use of the insecticidal proteins and/or nucleic acid sequences encoding same for killing or inhibiting the development of insect pests as well as for conferring insect resistance to plants. The invention further provides compositions comprising the pesticidal polypeptides and/or polynucleotide encoding same and host cells, particularly bacterial cells, expressing the insecticidal polypeptides.

Insecticidal polypeptides and use thereof

Provided are biologically pure bacterial isolates characterized by a genome structure at least 90% similar to a genome structure of a bacterial species selected from the group consisting of:sp. E128 having an NRRL Accession No. B-67462,A190 having an NRRL Accession No. B-67464,P243 having an NRRL Accession No. B-67459,M979 having an NRRL Accession No. B-67457,P63 having an NRRL Accession No. B-67461,sp. G706,E132 having an NRRL Accession No. B-67460,A918,O180,B670 having an NRRL Accession No. B67463,scopuliridis F427 having an NRRL Accession No. B-67458, andsp. L219. Also provided are whole cell broth or lysates thereof, and polynucleotide, polypeptides and constructs expressing same, compositions-of-matter comprising same and methods using same for killing or inhibiting the development of insects.

Bacterial genes and isolates for conferring insect resistance

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St. Ann, MO, United States of America

Lisa N Meihls