Bacillus thuringiensis strains and their insecticidal proteins
US5885571A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Mar 23, 1995 |
| Grant date | Mar 23, 1999 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 23, 2015 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY02A40/146
- WIPO fieldBiotechnology
- WIPO sectorChemistry
Abstract
Four novel Bacillus thurungienisis strains which are deposited at the BCCM-LMG under accesion nos. LMG P-12592, LMG P-12593, LMG P-12594, and LMG P-13493, produce new crystal proteins during sporulation that are toxic to Lepidoptera, more particularly against Noctuidae such as Spodoptera spp. and Agrotis ipsilon, against Pyralidae such as Ostrinia nubilalis, and against Yponomeutidae such as Plutella xylostella, and that are encoded by a novel gene. The crystal proteins contain protoxins, which can yield a toxin as trypsin-digestion product. A plant, the genome of which is transformed with a DNA sequence that comes from either one of the strains and that encodes its respective toxin, is resistant to Lepidoptera. Each strain, itself, or its crystals, crystals proteins, protoxin or toxin can be used as the active ingredient in an insecticidal composition for combatting Lepidoptera.
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