Insect Destroying Or Inhibiting Patents (Class 514/4.5)
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Publication number: 20110154537Abstract: The invention provides nucleic acids, and variants and fragments thereof, obtained from strains of Bacillus thuringiensis encoding polypeptides having pesticidal activity against insect pests, including Coleoptera. Particular embodiments of the invention provide isolated nucleic acids encoding pesticidal proteins, pesticidal compositions, DNA constructs, and transformed microorganisms and plants comprising a nucleic acid of the embodiments. These compositions find use in methods for controlling pests, especially plant pests.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2010Publication date: June 23, 2011Applicant: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.Inventors: Andre Roger Abad, Hua Dong, Sue B. Lo, Xiaomei Shi
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Publication number: 20110154535Abstract: The invention provides nucleic acids, and variants and fragments thereof, obtained from strains of Bacillus thuringiensis encoding polypeptides having pesticidal activity against insect pests, including Coleoptera. Particular embodiments of the invention provide isolated nucleic acids encoding pesticidal proteins, pesticidal compositions, DNA constructs, and transformed microorganisms and plants comprising a nucleic acid of the embodiments. These compositions find use in methods for controlling pests, especially plant pests.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2010Publication date: June 23, 2011Applicant: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.Inventors: Andre Roger Abad, Hua Dong, Sue B. Lo, Xiaomei Shi, Thomas C. Wolfe
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Publication number: 20110154536Abstract: The invention provides nucleic acids, and variants and fragments thereof, obtained from strains of Bacillus thuringiensis encoding polypeptides having pesticidal activity against insect pests, including Lepidoptera. Particular embodiments of the invention provide isolated nucleic acids encoding pesticidal proteins, pesticidal compositions, DNA constructs, and transformed microorganisms and plants comprising a nucleic acid of the embodiments. These compositions find use in methods for controlling pests, especially plant pests.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2010Publication date: June 23, 2011Applicant: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.Inventors: Andre Roger Abad, Hua Dong, Deirdre M. Kapka-Kitzman, Sue B. Lo, Xiaomei Shi
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Publication number: 20110136731Abstract: A noxious organism-controlling agent disclosed herein is effective to pests that have acquired a resistance to conventional Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) agents and has activity on Coleoptera pests and specifically against the emerald ash borer (EAB), Agrilus planipennis Fairmaire (Coleoptera: Buprestidae). Also disclosed is a microbe Bacillus thuringiensis serovar galleriae SDS502 strain having an ability of producing a toxic protein (Cry8Da) that can serve as an active ingredient of a noxious organism-controlling agent to control EAB.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2008Publication date: June 9, 2011Inventors: Leonora S. Bauer, John L. Libs
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Publication number: 20110112013Abstract: The invention provides nucleic acids, and variants and fragments thereof, obtained from strains of Bacillus thuringiensis encoding polypeptides having pesticidal activity against insect pests, including Lepidoptera. Particular embodiments of the invention provide isolated nucleic acids encoding pesticidal proteins, pesticidal compositions, DNA constructs, and transformed microorganisms and plants comprising a nucleic acid of the embodiments. These compositions find use in methods for controlling pests, especially plant pests.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2010Publication date: May 12, 2011Applicant: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.Inventors: André Roger Abad, Hua Dong, Sue B. Lo, Xiaomei Shi, Thomas Chad Wolfe
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Publication number: 20110112012Abstract: The subject invention relates in part to a novel protein for binding Bacillus thuringiensis Cry toxins, and fragments of cadherins for enhancing Cry toxicity against dipterans. The subject invention also relates in part to the discovery that fragments of a midgut cadherin from a dipteran insect synergize Cry proteins that are active against dipterans. Thus, the subject invention includes the use of fragments of cadherin ectodomains for controlling dipterans. Such fragments (that bind Crys) can be administered to a dipteran insect for ingestion. In some preferred embodiments, the source cadherin is a dipteran cadherin. Also in some preferred embodiments, the fragment is administered with a Cry protein that is active against a dipteran. Variants of the fragments of naturally occurring cadherins are included within the scope of the subject invention.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2009Publication date: May 12, 2011Applicants: The University of Georgia Studies Research Foundation ,Inc., InsectiGen ,Inc.Inventors: Michael J. Adang, Gang Hua, Mohd Amir Fursan Abdullah, Rui Zhang
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Publication number: 20110088129Abstract: This invention relates to the use of a combination of different proteins insecticidal to Helicoverpa zeaor Helicoverpa armigerain an insect resistance management process, wherein such proteins are: a) a Cry2A protein such as Cry2Aa, Cry2Ab, or Cry2Ae and b) a Cry1A, Cry1F or VIP3A protein, particularly wherein such proteins binds saturably to the insect midgut membrane of Helicoverpa zeaor Helicoverpa armigera, as well as plants and seeds expressing such combination of proteins, which are used to delay or prevent the development of resistance in populations of such insect species.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2009Publication date: April 14, 2011Inventors: Carmen Sara Hernandez, Adri Van Vliet, Jeroen Van Rie, Juan Ferre Manzanero
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Publication number: 20110088128Abstract: This invention is related to a protein from the seeds, cotyledons or plantlets of Lupinus genus, as well as to the way of producing the protein in recombinant form and of expressing the protein in genetically modified plants. The invention relates to methods of its use, or of any modification of the protein that maintains its biological properties, as a supplement in human or animal nutrition and as a fungicide, insecticide, growth promoter, fertilizer or in the preparation of genetically modified organisms.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2010Publication date: April 14, 2011Applicant: INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE AGRONOMIAInventors: RICARDO MANUEL DE SEIXAS BOAVIDA FERREIRA, SARA ALEXANDRA VALADAS DA SILVA MONTEIRO, ARTUR RICARDO NASCIMENTO TEIXEIRA, VIRGILIO BORGES LOUREIRO
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Patent number: 7919272Abstract: Compositions and methods for conferring pesticidal activity to bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues and seeds are provided. Compositions comprising a coding sequence for a delta-endotoxin polypeptide are provided. The coding sequences can be used in DNA constructs or expression cassettes for transformation and expression in plants and bacteria. Compositions also comprise transformed bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues, and seeds. In particular, isolated delta-endotoxin nucleic acid molecules are provided. Additionally, amino acid sequences corresponding to the polynucleotides are encompassed, and antibodies specifically binding to those amino acid sequences. In particular, the present invention provides for isolated nucleic acid molecules comprising nucleotide sequences encoding the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO:13-24, or the nucleotide sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO:1-12 and 25-44, as well as variants and fragments thereof.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2010Date of Patent: April 5, 2011Assignee: Athenix Corp.Inventors: Kimberly S. Sampson, Daniel John Tomso
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Publication number: 20110047646Abstract: This invention relates to a process for preventing or delaying the development of resistance in populations of Spodoptera frugiperda to transgenic plants expressing a Cry1A and/or a Cry1F protein, comprising providing such plants also with a gene expressing a VIP3 protein, as well as to related uses and methods, such as methods for the production of transgenic plants comprising two different insecticidal proteins that show no competition for binding to the binding sites in the midgut brush border of Spodoptera frugiperda larvae.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2009Publication date: February 24, 2011Inventor: Juan Ferre Manzanero
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Publication number: 20110030096Abstract: Compositions and methods for conferring pesticidal activity to bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues and seeds are provided. Compositions comprising a coding sequence for a toxin polypeptide are provided. The coding sequences can be used in DNA constructs or expression cassettes for transformation and expression in plants and bacteria. Compositions also comprise transformed bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues, and seeds. In particular, isolated toxin nucleic acid molecules are provided. Additionally, amino acid sequences corresponding to the polynucleotides are encompassed, and antibodies specifically binding to those amino acid sequences. In particular, the present invention provides for isolated nucleic acid molecules comprising nucleotide sequences encoding the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO:28-62, or the nucleotide sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO:1-27, as well as variants and fragments thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2010Publication date: February 3, 2011Applicant: Athenix Corp.Inventors: Kimberly S. Sampson, Daniel John Tomso, Rong Guo
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Publication number: 20110023184Abstract: Compositions and methods for conferring pesticidal activity to bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues and seeds are provided. Compositions comprising a coding sequence for pesticidal polypeptides are provided. The coding sequences can be used in DNA constructs or expression cassettes for transformation and expression in plants and bacteria. Compositions also comprise transformed bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues, and seeds. In particular, isolated pesticidal nucleic acid molecules are provided. Additionally, amino acid sequences corresponding to the polynucleotides are encompassed. In particular, the present invention provides for nucleic acid molecules comprising nucleotide sequences encoding the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO:2, 3, or 4, the nucleotide sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO:1, 9, 10, or 11, as well as variants and fragments thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2010Publication date: January 27, 2011Inventors: Nalini Manoj Desai, Jill Hinson, Deepa Balasubramanian, Kimberly S. Sampson, Daniel J. Tomso, Duane Alan Lehtinen, Nicholas Duck, Rong Guo
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Publication number: 20110004964Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of plant pest control, particularly insect control. Provided are nucleotide sequences from Bacillus thuringiensis encoding insecticidal proteins. Further provided are methods and means for using said nucleotide sequence for controlling plant insect pests.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2010Publication date: January 6, 2011Applicant: BAYER BIOSCIENCE N.V.Inventors: GRETA ARNAUT, ANNEMIE BOETS, KAREL DE RUDDER, STIJN VANNESTE, JEROEN VAN RIE
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Publication number: 20110003736Abstract: The subject invention concerns new classes of pesticidally active proteins and the polynucleotide sequences that encode these proteins. In preferred embodiments, these pesticidal proteins have molecular weights of approximately 40-50 kDa and of approximately 10-15 kDa.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2010Publication date: January 6, 2011Applicant: Mycogen CorporationInventors: Kenneth E. Narva, H. Ernest Schnepf, Mark Knuth, Michael R. Pollard, Guy A. Cardineau, George E. Schwab, Tracy Ellis Michaels, Stacey Finstad Lee, Paula Diehl, Joanna Dojillo, Lisa Stamp, Rod Herman
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Publication number: 20100317569Abstract: DIG-5 Cry toxins, polynucleotides encoding such toxins, use of such toxins to control pests, and transgenic plants that produce such toxins are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2010Publication date: December 16, 2010Applicant: DOW AGROSCIENCES LLCInventors: Justin M. Lira, Kenneth Narva, Aaron T. Woosley, Ignacio Mario Larrinua, Timothy D. Hey
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Publication number: 20100305029Abstract: The invention relates to a method of killing or immobilizing an insect comprising administering to the insect a low molecular weight peptide isolated from the submaxiliary saliva glands of shrews of the species Blarina. The invention further relates to an insecticide composition comprising such a peptide.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 3, 2010Publication date: December 2, 2010Applicant: BioProspecting NB Inc.Inventors: John M. Stewart, Bradley J. Steeves, Karl Vernes
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Publication number: 20100298207Abstract: Compositions and methods for conferring pesticidal activity to bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues and seeds are provided. Compositions comprising a coding sequence for a toxin polypeptide are provided. The coding sequences can be used in DNA constructs or expression cassettes for transformation and expression in plants and bacteria. Compositions also comprise transformed bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues, and seeds. In particular, isolated toxin nucleic acid molecules are provided. Additionally, amino acid sequences corresponding to the polynucleotides are encompassed, and antibodies specifically binding to those amino acid sequences. In particular, the present invention provides for isolated nucleic acid molecules comprising nucleotide sequences encoding the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO:50-96, or the nucleotide sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO:1-47, as well as variants and fragments thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2010Publication date: November 25, 2010Applicant: ATHENIX CORPORATIONInventors: Kimberly S. Sampson, Daniel John Tomso, Razvan Valeriu Dumitru
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Publication number: 20100297260Abstract: Pest controlling compositions exhibiting enhanced pesticidal activity levels are disclosed. In one embodiment, a composition includes at least one pesticide, at least one transition metal salt and at least one proteinaceous material. In this embodiment, the composition exhibits enhanced pesticidal activity levels compared to a composition dissimilar only in not having the at least one transition metal salt and the at least one proteinaceous material.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2010Publication date: November 25, 2010Inventors: Stephen L. Wilson, Lei Liu, James D. Thomas, Raymond E. Boucher, JR., James E. Dripps, Margaret S. Kempe
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Publication number: 20100298211Abstract: Compositions and methods for conferring pesticidal activity to bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues and seeds are provided. Compositions comprising a coding sequence for a delta-endotoxin polypeptide are provided. The coding sequences can be used in DNA constructs or expression cassettes for transformation and expression in plants and bacteria. Compositions also comprise transformed bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues, and seeds. In particular, isolated delta-endotoxin nucleic acid molecules are provided. Additionally, amino acid sequences corresponding to the polynucleotides are encompassed, and antibodies specifically binding to those amino acid sequences. In particular, the present invention provides for isolated nucleic acid molecules comprising nucleotide sequences encoding the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO:6-11, or the nucleotide sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO:1-5, as well as variants and fragments thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2010Publication date: November 25, 2010Applicant: Athenix CorporationInventors: Nadine Carozzi, Nicholas B. Duck, Michael G. Koziel, Tracy Hargiss, Rebekah Deter, Cheryl L. Peters, Sandra L. Volrath, Daniel J. Tomso
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Publication number: 20100279929Abstract: The invention provides nucleic acids, and variants and fragments thereof, obtained from strains of Bacillus thuringiensis encoding polypeptides having pesticidal activity against insect pests, including Coleoptera. Particular embodiments of the invention provide isolated nucleic acids encoding pesticidal proteins, pesticidal compositions, DNA constructs, and transformed microorganisms and plants comprising a nucleic acid of the embodiments. These compositions find use in methods for controlling pests, especially plant pests.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2010Publication date: November 4, 2010Applicant: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.Inventors: Andre R. Abad, Hua Dong, Sue B. Lo, Xiaomei Shi
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Publication number: 20100267625Abstract: The invention provides nucleic acids, and variants and fragments thereof, obtained from strains of Bacillus thuringiensis encoding polypeptides having pesticidal activity against insect pests, including Coleoptera. Particular embodiments of the invention provide isolated nucleic acids encoding pesticidal proteins, pesticidal compositions, DNA constructs, and transformed microorganisms and plants comprising a nucleic acid of the embodiments. These compositions find use in methods for controlling pests, especially plant pests.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2010Publication date: October 21, 2010Applicant: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.Inventors: Andre R. Abad, Hua Dong, Sue B. Lo, Xiaomei Shi
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Publication number: 20100269221Abstract: The invention provides nucleic acids, and variants and fragments thereof, obtained from strains of Bacillus thuringiensis encoding polypeptides having pesticidal activity against insect pests, including Lepidoptera. Particular embodiments of the invention provide isolated nucleic acids encoding pesticidal proteins, pesticidal compositions, DNA constructs, and transformed microorganisms and plants comprising a nucleic acid of the embodiments. These compositions find use in methods for controlling pests, especially plant pests.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 6, 2009Publication date: October 21, 2010Inventors: Andre R. Abad, Hua Dong, Susan B. Lo, Mark Nelson, Xiaomei Shi, Clement W.K. Waine, Takashi Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20100263089Abstract: The invention concerns the use of a polypeptide derived from a PAlb legume albumen as insecticide, particularly for protecting cereal grains against insect pests.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2010Publication date: October 14, 2010Applicants: Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Institut National des Sciences Appliquees De LyonInventors: Bernard Delobel, Annie Grenier, Jacques Gueguen, Eric Ferrasson, Mbaiguinam Mbailao
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Publication number: 20100256052Abstract: The invention provides nucleic acids, and variants and fragments thereof, obtained from strains of Bacillus thuringiensis encoding polypeptides having pesticidal activity against insect pests, including Coleoptera. Particular embodiments of the invention provide isolated nucleic acids encoding pesticidal proteins, pesticidal compositions, DNA constructs, and transformed microorganisms and plants comprising a nucleic acid of the embodiments. These compositions find use in methods for controlling pests, especially plant pests.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2010Publication date: October 7, 2010Applicant: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.Inventors: Andre R. Abad, Hua Dong, Sue B. Lo, Xiaomei Shi
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Publication number: 20100256053Abstract: The invention provides nucleic acids, and variants and fragments thereof, obtained from strains of Bacillus thuringiensis encoding polypeptides having pesticidal activity against insect pests, including Coleoptera. Particular embodiments of the invention provide isolated nucleic acids encoding pesticidal proteins, pesticidal compositions, DNA constructs, and transformed microorganisms and plants comprising a nucleic acid of the embodiments. These compositions find use in methods for controlling pests, especially plant pests.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2010Publication date: October 7, 2010Applicant: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.Inventors: Andre R. Abad, Hua Dong, Sue B. Lo, Xiaomei Shi
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Publication number: 20100256051Abstract: A novel gene encoding a Coleopteran inhibitory Bacillus thuringiensis insecticidal crystal protein is disclosed. The protein, tIC851, is insecticidally active and provides plant protection from at least cotton boll weevil, Anthomomus grandis, when applied to plants in an insecticidally effective composition.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 5, 2007Publication date: October 7, 2010Inventors: Barbara Isaac, Elysia K. Krieger (f/k/a Joyce), Anne-Marie Light Mettus, Farhad Moshiri, Sakuntala Sivasupramanian
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Publication number: 20100256054Abstract: The invention provides nucleic acids, and variants and fragments thereof, obtained from strains of Bacillus thuringiensis encoding polypeptides having pesticidal activity against insect pests, including Coleoptera. Particular embodiments of the invention provide isolated nucleic acids encoding pesticidal proteins, pesticidal compositions, DNA constructs, and transformed microorganisms and plants comprising a nucleic acid of the embodiments. These compositions find use in methods for controlling pests, especially plant pests.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2010Publication date: October 7, 2010Applicant: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.Inventors: Andre R. Abad, Hua Dong, Sue B. Lo, Xiaomei Shi