Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Jennifer L. Holmes
  • Insecticidal toxins from Photorhabdus luminescens and nucleic acid sequences coding therefor
    Patent number: 6281413
    Abstract: Novel nucleic acid sequences isolated from Photorhabdus luminescens, whose expression results in novel insecticidal toxins, are disclosed herein. The invention also discloses compositions and formulations containing the insecticidal toxins that are capable of controlling insect pests. The invention is further drawn to methods of making the toxins and to methods of using the nucleotide sequences, for example in microorganisms to control insect pests or in transgenic plants to confer insect resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2001
    Assignee: Syngenta Participations AG
    Inventors: Vance Cary Kramer, Michael Kent Morgan, Arne Robert Anderson, Hope Prim Hart, Gregory W. Warren, Martha M. Dunn, Jeng Shong Chen
  • Insecticidal toxins and nucleic acid sequences coding therefor
    Patent number: 6277823
    Abstract: Novel nucleic acid sequences isolated from Xenorhabdus nematophilus, Xenorhabdus poinarii, and Photorhabdus luminescens, whose expression results in novel insecticidal toxins, are disclosed herein. The invention also discloses compositions and formulations containing the insecticidal toxins that are capable of controlling insect pests. The invention is further drawn to methods of making the toxins and to methods of using the nucleotide sequences, for example in microorganisms to control insect pests or in transgenic plants to confer insect resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2001
    Assignee: Syngenta Participations AG
    Inventors: Vance Cary Kramer, Michael Kent Morgan, Arne Robert Anderson