| abstract |
The present invention provides compositions and methods for controlling pests. The method involves transforming an organism with a nucleic acid sequence encoding an insecticidal protein. In particular, the 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. The 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. The pesticidal proteins can be used to control, inhibit or kill populations of lepidopteran, coleopteran, dipteran, fungal, hemipteran and nematode pests, and can be used to produce combinations with insecticidal activity thing. |