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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8173872 | insecticidal proteins The invention pertains to novel insecticidal compounds derived from Bacillus thuringiensis strains. New proteins designated. Cry2Ae, Cry2Af, and Cry2Ag, and variants thereof are provided, as well as DNA sequences encoding these proteins or their variants. Fur... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8173871 | Bacterial proteins with pesticidal activity Provided are pesticidal, particularly insecticidal, proteins which resemble S- layer proteins, as well as variants or mutants thereof, and DNAs encoding them. Further provided are methods and means for using said DNA or protein for controlling pests, particularly pl... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8129594 | gene with lepidopteran activity 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 pro... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8129593 | gene with lepidopteran activity 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 invent... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8115063 | gene with coleopteran activity 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 prov... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8101825 | AXMI-004, a delta-endotoxin gene and methods for its use 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... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8101826 | Expression of Cry3B insecticidal protein in plants The present invention discloses methods and compositions comprising a group of novel expression cassettes which provide significantly improved levels of accumulation of Coleopteran inhibitory Cry3B and Cry3B variant amino acid sequences when these are expressed in p... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8044266 | AXMI-008, a delta-endotoxin gene and methods for its use 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 and delta-endotoxin-associated polypeptides are provided. The coding sequenc... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8034997 | Nucleotide sequences encoding insecticidal proteins The present invention provides nucleotide sequences encoding an insecticidal protein exhibiting lepidopteran inhibitory activity, as well as a novel insecticidal protein referred to herein as a Cry1A.105 insecticide, transgenic plants expressing the insecticide, and... | 10/11/2011 |
| 7985892 | Truncated Cry35 proteins This invention provides truncated Cry35 proteins that surprisingly and unexpectedly have increased pesticidal activity as compared to full-length Cry35 proteins. The subject invention also includes polynucleotides that encode these truncated proteins, transgenic pla... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7964773 | DNA encoding insecticidal CRY9Fa proteins and recombinant hosts expressing same The present invention relates to new DNA sequences encoding an insecticidal Cry9Fa protein and insecticidal parts thereof, which are useful to protect plants from insect damage. Also included herein are micro-organisms and plants transformed with a DNA sequence enco... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7923602 | AXMI-031, AXMI-039, AXMI-040 and AXMI-049, a family of novel delta endotoxin genes and methods for their use 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... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7910807 | Plant activation of insect toxin Compositions and methods for protecting a plant from an insect pest are provided. In particular, nucleic acid sequences encoding insect protoxins modified to comprise at least one proteolytic activation site that is sensitive to a plant protease or an insect gut pro... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7880060 | Insecticidal polynucleotides and methods of use thereof A family of insecticidal polypeptides expressed in the venom gland of spiders of the genera Atrax and Hadronyche have been described. Also included are polynucleotides and expression vectors encoding the polypeptides and insect viruses and cells expres... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7858849 | crystal polypeptides, polynucleotides, and compositions thereof The present invention provides insecticidal polypeptides related to shuffled Bacillus thuringiensis Cry1 polypeptides. Nucleic acids encoding the polypeptides of the invention are also provided. Methods for using the polypeptides and nucleic acids of the inve... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7803993 | cry gene and protein Compositions and methods for protecting a plant from an insect pest are provided. In particular, novel polynucleotides and the pesticidal polypeptides they encode are provided. Methods of using the novel polynucleotides and pesticidal polypeptides of the invention t... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7790960 | Wound-inducible expression in plants The invention relates to a method for producing plants in which expression of an insecticidal protein is regulated by a wound-induced promoter inducing local expression to the chimeric genes used in this method and the plants obtained thereby, and to the processes f... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7790961 | Pesticidal proteins 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 k... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7777100 | DNA sequences from tcd genomic region of Nucleotide sequences for seven genes, tccC4, tcdA3, tcdA2, tcdB2, tccC3, tcdA4, tccC5, from the tcd genomic region of Photorhabdus luminescens W-14, are useful in heterologous expression of orally active insect toxins. ... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7772465 | gene with lepidopteran activity 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 pro... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7745700 | Insecticidal proteins derived from 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 seque... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7737331 | crystal polypeptides, polynucleotides, and compositions thereof The present invention provides insecticidal polypeptides related to Bacillus Cry2 polypeptides. Nucleic acids encoding the polypeptides of the invention are also provided. Methods for using the polypeptides and nucleic acids of the invention to enhance resist... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7696412 | Genes encoding novel proteins with pesticidal activity against Coleopterans The invention provides nucleic acids, and variants and fragments thereof, obtained from strains of Bacillus thuringiensis encoding δ-endotoxins having pesticidal activity against pests of the order Coleoptera. The invention further provides mutagenized nucle... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7692068 | AXMI-010, a delta-endotoxin gene and methods for its use 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... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7674959 | Axmi-027, axmi-036 and axmi-038, a family of delta-endotoxin genes and methods for their use 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... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7655838 | Insect inhibitory proteins, fusions, and methods of use therefor Novel insect inhibitory proteins are disclosed comprising two different components, both of which are required for biological activity. Various methods of linking both components together, so that a single protein provides insect inhibitory activity, are disclosed. ... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7629504 | cry9 nucleic acids The invention provides nucleic acids, and variants and fragments thereof, obtained from strains of Bacillus thuringiensis encoding Cry9 δ-endotoxins having pesticidal activity against insect pests, including Lepidoptera. Particular embodiments of the ... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7615686 | Expression and use of novel pesticidal toxins A novel pesticidal toxin isolated from Bacillus thuringiensis that is highly active against a wide range of lepidopteran insect pests is disclosed. The DNA encoding the pesticidal toxin can be used to transform various prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms to ... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7605304 | Genes encoding novel proteins with pesticidal activity against coleopterans The invention provides nucleic acids, and variants and fragments thereof, obtained from strains of Bacillus thuringiensis encoding δ-endotoxins having pesticidal activity against pests of the order Coleoptera. The invention further provides mutagenized nucle... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7601894 | gene with lepidopteran activity 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 pro... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7576264 | Gene resistant to The present invention relates to isolated Vat genes encoding a polypeptide that confers resistance to Aphis gossypii and/or resistance to viral transmission by aphids, and methods of transforming plant and cells with a Vat gene. The invention also relates to ... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7569748 | Nucleic acid encoding an insecticidal protein toxin from photorhabdus Proteins from the genus Photorhabdus are toxic to insects upon exposure. Photorhabdus luminescens (formerly Xenorhabdus luminescens) have been found in mammalian clinical samples and as a bacterial symbiont of entomopathogenic nematodes of genus... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7544862 | Coleopteran-resistant transgenic plants and methods of their production Disclosed are nucleic acid segments comprising synthetically-modified genes encoding Coleopteran-toxic B. thuringiensis δ-endotoxins. Also disclosed are methods of using these genes for the recombinant expression of polypeptides, the preparation of vectors c... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7541517 | nucleic acids The invention provides nucleic acids, and variants and fragments thereof, obtained from strains of Bacillus thuringiensis encoding Cry9 δ-endotoxins having pesticidal activity against insect pests, including Lepidoptera. Particular embodiments of the ... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7534939 | Plant transformed with polynucleotide encoding lepidopteran-active δ-endotoxin Disclosed are Bacillus thuringiensis strains comprising novel crystal proteins which exhibit insecticidal activity against lepidopteran insects. Also disclosed are novel B. thuringiensis genes and their encoded crystal proteins, as well as methods of m... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7501559 | Prevention of Bt resistance development Plants made resistant to insects by transforming their nuclear genome with two or more DNA sequences, each encoding a different non-competitively binding B. thuringiensis protoxin or insecticidal part thereof, preferably the toxin thereof. ... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7491869 | Methods of using non-plant insecticidal lipase encoding nucleic acids in transgenic plants Methods of creating and enhancing insect resistance in plants by introducing non-plant lipases into plants are provided. Plants with enhanced insect resistance and seed from plants thereof are provided. DNA sequences encoding insecticidal lipases and insecticidal li... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7476781 | cry gene and protein Compositions and methods for protecting a plant from an insect pest are provided. In particular, novel polynucleotides and the pesticidal polypeptides they encode are provided. Methods of using the novel polynucleotides and pesticidal polypeptides of the invention t... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7473821 | Nucleic acids encoding Cry8Bb1 endotoxins engineered to have insect-specific protease recognition sequences Compositions and methods for protecting a plant from an insect pest are provided. Nucleic acid molecules encoding insect protoxins or insect toxins modified to comprise at least one proteolytic activation site that is sensitive to an insect gut protease are provided... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7462760 | Genes encoding plant protease-resistant pesticidal proteins and method of their use Compositions and methods for protecting a plant from an insect pest are provided. The invention provides mutagenized nucleic acids that have been engineered to encode pesticidal polypeptides having increased resistance to proteolytic degradation by a plant protease.... | 12/09/2008 |
