Patent ID: 6844182

Claim:
A biologically pure culture of a mutant of Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. Kurstaki strain EMCC 0086 which potentiates the pesticidal activity of a Bacillus related pesticide at least about 1.5 fold, wherein said Bacillus related pesticide is a Bacillus thuringiensis delta-endotoxin and said pesticide targets are insects, nematodes, mites or snails, wherein the amount of the factor produced by the mutant is at least about two times more than the amount of the factor produced by the parent strain, and wherein said factor has 1 H NMR shifts at about δ 1.5, 3.22, 3.29, 3.35, 3.43, 3.58, 3.73, 3.98, 4.07, 4.15, 4.25, and 4.35 and 13 C shifts at about 31.6, 37.2, 51.1, 53.3, 54.0, 54.4, 61.5, 61.6, 64.1, 65.6, 158.3, 170.7 and 171.3.