Pesticidal toxin proteins active against Lepidopteran insects

US12240874B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Monsanto Technology LLC · US

Inventors

• James A. Baum · Doylestown, US
• David J. Bowen · Wildwood, US
• Catherine A. Chay · Ballwin, US
• David J. Chi · Chesterfield, US
• William P. Clinton · Monsey, US
• Crystal L. Dart · Norton, US
• Leigh H. English · Chesterfield, US
• Stanislaw Flasinski · Ballwin, US
• Victor M. Guzov · Cambridge, US
• Kevin A. Jarrell · Lincoln, US
• Uma R. Kesanapalli · Chesterfield, US
• Thomas M. Malvar · Troy, US
• Robert M. McCarroll · Chesterfield, US
• Jason S. Milligan · Wilson Heights, US
• Jay P. Morgenstern · Boston, US
• Deborah G. Rucker · Chesterfield, US
• Sara A. Salvador · Wayland, US
• Temple F. Smith · Woburn, US
• Carlos E. Soto · Granite City, US
• Collin M. Stultz · Woburn, US
• Brian M. Turczyk · Peabody, US
• Ty T. Vaughn · Clayton, US
• Moritz von Rechenberg · Waltham, US

Key dates

• Filing date: May 17, 2023
• Grant date: Mar 4, 2025
• Expiry date: Nov 2, 2043

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02A40/146
• WIPO field: Biotechnology
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

Disclosed herein are nucleotide sequences encoding an insecticidal protein exhibiting Lepidopteran inhibitory activity, as well as novel insecticidal proteins referred to herein as a BCW 001, BCW 002, BCW 003, and BCW toxic protein-containing chimeras and BCW toxin insecticide, transgenic plants expressing the chimeras or the insecticide, and methods for detecting the presence of the nucleotide sequences or the insecticide in a biological sample.