Pioneer Hi-bred International, Inc.

Pioneer Hi-bred Interantional, Inc.

Steven D Gruver

Genhai Zhu

Ute Schellenberger

Weiping Xie

Jun-Zhi Wei

Barbara Rosen

Lu Liu

Xiaohong Zhong

Jessica O'Rear

Heather Kozy

Jun-zhi Wei

Jennifer Kara Barry

Daniel J Altier

Ryan Michael Gerber

Nasser Yalpani

Young-jun Park

Brian J Gibbons

Wieping Xie

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

Biological strains, compositions, and methods of using the strains and compositions for reducing overall insect damage.

Bacterial strains with toxin complex for insect control

The invention provides novel polypeptides, and variants and fragments thereof, having pesticidal activity against nematodes. Particular embodiments of the invention provide isolated nucleic acids encoding pesticidal proteins, biopesticide compositions, expression cassettes, and transformed microorganisms and plants comprising a nucleic acid of the invention. These compositions find use in methods for controlling pests, especially plant parasitic nematodes.

Anti-nematode peptides and methods of use thereof

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Pacifica, CA, United States of America

Steven D Gruver