Chromobacterium bioactive compositions and metabolites
AssigneeMarrone Bio Innovations, Inc.
InventorsRatnakar Asolkar, Huazhang Huang, Marja Koivunen, Pamela Marrone
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Abstract
Provided are bioactive compounds and metabolites derived from Chromobacterium species culture responsible for controlling pests, compositions containing these compounds, methods for obtaining these compounds and methods of using these compounds and compositions for controlling pests.
Claims20
An isolated compound having the structure:
- and which has insecticidal activity.
A method for obtaining a compound from a Chromobacterium species comprising:
- (a) culturing a strain of the Chromobacterium species in a whole cell broth under conditions sufficient to produce said compound;
- and
- (b) isolating said compound produced in (a) from said whole cell broth, wherein the compound has a structure:
A method for modulating insect infestation in a plant comprising applying to the plant and/or seeds thereof and/or substrate used for growing said plant an amount of an isolated compound having the structure
- and which has insecticidal activity, effective to modulate said insect infestation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.