Patent ID: 6858707

Claim:
An isolated fragment of a hypersensitive response elicitor protein or polypeptide, wherein said fragment is selected from the group consisting of a C-terminal fragment of the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 23 consisting of the following amino acids of SEQ ID NO: 23: 169 to 403, 210 to 403, 267 to 403, or 343 to 403; an internal fragment of the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 23 consisting of the following amino acids of SEQ ID NO: 23: 150 to 179, 137 to 166, 121 to 150, 76 to 168, 105 to 168, or 137 to 156; and a fragment of the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 31 consisting of amino acids 190 to 294 of SEQ ID NO: 31.