Synthetic Bacillus thuringiensis cryic gene encoding insect toxin

US6043415A · kind A · utility

Assignees

• Ramot Univ. Auth. for Applied Research and Industrial Development Ltd. · IL
• Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Föderung der Wissenschaften e.V. · US

Inventors

• Nicolai Strizhov · Neunburg vorm Wald, DE
• Jeff Schell · Cologne, DE
• Aviah Zilberstein · Holon, IL
• Menachem Keller · Hadera, IL
• Baruch Sneh · Rehovot, IL
• Csaba Koncz · Neunburg vorm Wald, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 23, 1996
• Grant date: Mar 28, 2000
• Expiry date: Dec 23, 2016

Classification

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

Abstract

The present invention relateds to a synthetic version of a gene isolated from Bacillus thuringiensis encoding an insectidical crystal protein designated CryIC, plants transformed with the gene, and the insecticidal crystal protein toxin expressed by the gene, all of which are used to control insects of the Spodoptera species as well as those of the Mamestra species.