| abstract |
Compositions and methods for controlling pests are provided. These methods involve transforming an organism with a nucleic acid sequence encoding an insecticidal protein. In particular, these nucleic acid sequences can be used to prepare plants and microorganisms with insecticidal activity. Thus, transformed bacteria, plants, plant cells, plant tissues and seeds are provided. The compositions are insecticidal nucleic acids and proteins of bacterial species. These sequences can be used to construct expression vectors for subsequent transformation into organisms of interest, including plants, as probes for the isolation of other homologous (or partially homologous) genes. These pesticidal proteins can be used to control, inhibit or kill lepidopteran, coleopteran, dipteran, fungal, hemipteran and nematode pest populations, and to produce compositions with insecticidal activity . |