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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 04, 2003
Filed:
May. 05, 1997
Jerald C. Ensign, Madison, WI (US);
David J. Bowen, Oregon, WI (US);
James Petell, Zionsville, IN (US);
Raymond Fatig, Zionsville, IN (US);
Sue Schoonover, Brownsburg, IN (US);
Richard H. ffrench-Constant, Madison, WI (US);
Thomas A. Rocheleau, Madison, WI (US);
Michael B. Blackburn, Madison, WI (US);
Timothy D. Hey, Zionsville, IN (US);
Donald J. Merlo, Carmel, IN (US);
Gregory L. Orr, Indianapolis, IN (US);
Jean L. Roberts, Arcadia, IN (US);
James A. Strickland, Lebanon, IN (US);
Lining Guo, Brownsburg, IN (US);
Todd A. Ciche, Madison, WI (US);
Kitisri Sukhapinda, Zionsville, IN (US);
Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, Madison, WI (US);
Abstract
Proteins from the genus Photorhabdus are toxic to insects upon exposure. (formerly ) have been found in mammalian clinical samples and as a bacterial symbiont of entomopathogenic nematodes of genus Heterorhabditis. These protein toxins can be applied to, or genetically engineered into, insect larvae food and plants for insect control.