Patent ID: 6562590
Filing Date: 2003-05-13
Classification: A01N,C07K,Y02A

Abstract:
A method for controlling a pest wherein said method comprises applying to the pest, or to a pest-inhabited locus, a pesticidally effective amount of a composition comprising a recombinant host transformed with a polynucleotide encoding a pesticidal polypeptide, wherein the transformed host expresses the polynucleotide to produce the pesticidal polypeptide and the pest ingests the transformed host or the pesticidal polypeptide, and wherein the pesticidal polypeptide comprises an amino acid sequence having the general formula:A1A2A3A4A5Flâ€ƒâ€ƒ(Formula I) (SEQ ID NO. 8) wherein:A1 is selected from the group consisting of A, D, F, G, M, P, S and Y; A2 is selected from the group consisting of A, D, E, F, G, N, P, S and Y; A3 is optionally present and is selected from the group consisting of A, D, F, G, L, P, S and Y; A4 is optionally present when A3 is present and is selected from the group consisting of A, F, G, L and Y; A5 is optionally present when A4 is present and is selected from the group consisting of A, F, L and P; and Fl is a flanking region which is optionally present and is selected from the group consisting of: P, PP, PPP, PPPP (SEQ ID NO. 9), and PPPPP (SEQ ID NO. 10); with the proviso that the pesticidal polypeptide does not comprise SEQ ID NOS:11-18 or DF-OMe.