BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS MICROBES ACTIVE AGAINST NEMATODES, AND GENES ENCODING NOVEL NEMATODE-ACTIVE TOXINS CLONED FROM BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS ISOLATES

• Main Authors: GALASAN, THERESA, SCHWAB, GEORGE E, PAYNE, JEWEL M, HICKLE, LESLIE A, NARVA, KENNETH E, SICK, AUGUST J
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French
• Published: 12.12.1991
• Edition: 5
• Subjects: AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; BEER; BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOCIDES, e.g. AS DISINFECTANTS, AS PESTICIDES, AS HERBICIDES; CHEMISTRY; COMPOSITIONS THEREOF; CULTURE MEDIA; ENZYMOLOGY; FERMENTATION OR ENZYME-USING PROCESSES TO SYNTHESISE A DESIREDCHEMICAL COMPOUND OR COMPOSITION OR TO SEPARATE OPTICAL ISOMERSFROM A RACEMIC MIXTURE; FISHING; FODDER; FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS; FORESTRY; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HUNTING; HYGIENE; MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; METALLURGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROORGANISMS OR ENZYMES; MUTATION OR GENETIC ENGINEERING; NEW PLANTS OR PROCESSES FOR OBTAINING THEM; ORGANIC CHEMISTRY; PEPTIDES; PEST REPELLANTS OR ATTRACTANTS; PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS; PLANT REPRODUCTION BY TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES; PREPARATIONS FOR MEDICAL, DENTAL, OR TOILET PURPOSES; PRESERVATION OF BODIES OF HUMANS OR ANIMALS OR PLANTS OR PARTSTHEREOF; PROCESSES USING MICROORGANISMS; PROPAGATING, PRESERVING OR MAINTAINING MICROORGANISMS; SPECIFIC THERAPEUTIC ACTIVITY OF CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS ORMEDICINAL PREPARATIONS; SPIRITS; THEIR TREATMENT, NOT COVERED BY OTHER CLASSES; TRAPPING; VINEGAR; WINE

MA20C-48 The subject invention concerns novel isolates of, and genes from, Bacillus thuringiensis (B.t.) which express toxins having nematicidal activity. Also described are methods for controlling nematodes and flukes.