Insecticidal proteins and method for plant protection
AssigneeDowElanco
InventorsTerence A. Walsh, Robert A. Houtchens, James A. Strickland, Gregory L. Orr, Donald J. Merlo
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Abstract
The present invention provides a composition and method of using plant non-specific lipid acyl hydrolases to protect plants otherwise susceptible to insect infestation by one or more of corn rootworms, potato beetles, armyworms, borers, cutworms, wireworms, earworms and aphids.
Claims5
A method of protecting a plant or a part thereof against insect infestation by one or more corn rootworms, potato beetles, armyworms, borers, cutworms, wireworms, earworms and aphids, comprising presenting to a loci wherein said insect(s) is to be controlled or combated an insect controlling amount of a naturally occurring plant non-specific lipid acyl hydrolase, said plant non-specific lipid acyl hydrolase having an amino acid sequence that includes the serine hydrolase active site motif Gly-Xxx-Ser-Xxx-Gly, said plant non-specific lipid acyl hydrolase being one that is inactivated by treatment with diisopropyl fluorophosphate, and said plant non-specific lipid acyl hydrolase being derived from a plant species other than that of the plant or plant part to be protected.
A method of protecting a plant or a part thereof wherein the plant is not a potato plant, against insect infestation by one or more corn rootworms, potato beetles, armywormsr borers, cutworms, wireworms, earworms and aphids, comprising presenting to a loci wherein said insect(s) is to be controlled or combated an insect controlling amount of a naturally occurring patatin.
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