Pest control system
AssigneeMinos Biosystems Limited
InventorsRoger Craig, Charalambos Savakis
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Abstract
The present invention provides a method for controlling a population of target pests, comprising: a) providing gene comprising a coding sequence encoding one constituent of an enzyme/pro-pesticide system and a promoter capable of driving the coding sequence in the target plants or vertebrate host; b) transforming the target plant or vertebrate with the gene; and c) administering to the transformed population of target plant or vertebrates the remaining constituents of the enzyme/pro-pesticide system such that inactive pro-pesticide is converted to active pesticide on or within the transformed plant or vertebrate host leading to the death of any invading population of target pests.
Claims9
A method for controlling a population of target pests, comprising:
- (i) providing a gene comprising a coding sequence encoding one constituent of an enzyme/pro-insecticide system and a regulatory region operatively limited to the coding sequence in the target plant;
- (ii) transforming the population of target plants with the gene, and;
- (iii) administering to the transformed population of target plants the remaining constituent(s) of the enzyme/pro-insecticide system, such that inactive pro-insecticide is converted to insecticide within the transformed plant;
- wherein the coding sequence encodes an amidase enzyme, mixed functional oxidase/cytochrome P450 or an esterase enzyme which converts a pro-insecticide into its active metabolite.
A vector which is capable of transforming a target plant cell, which vector comprises a gene comprising a coding sequence encoding one constituent of an enzyme/pro-insecticide system and a regulatory region operatively linked to the coding sequence in target plant, wherein the coding sequence encodes an amidase enzyme, mixed functional oxidase/cytochrome P450 or an esterase enzyme which converts the pro-insecticide into its active metabolite.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.