US 11,702,455 B2
Pesticidal toxin proteins active against lepidopteran insects
James A. Baum, Webster Groves, MO (US); David J. Bowen, Wildwood, MO (US); Catherine A. Chay, Ballwin, MO (US); David J. Chi, Ballwin, MO (US); William P. Clinton, University City, MO (US); Crystal L. Dart, Norton, MA (US); Leigh English, Chesterfield, MO (US); Stanislaw Flasinski, Ballwin, MO (US); Victor M. Guzov, Cambridge, MA (US); Kevin A. Jarrell, Woburn, MA (US); Uma R. Kesanapalli, Chesterfield, MO (US); Thomas M. Malvar, N. Stonington, CT (US); Robert M. McCarroll, Lexington, MA (US); Jason S. Milligan, Troy, IL (US); Jay P. Morgenstern, Cambridge, MA (US); Deborah G. Rucker, St. Louis, MO (US); Sara A. Salvador, Wildwood, MO (US); Temple F. Smith, Woburn, MA (US); Carlos E. Soto, Granite City, IL (US); Collin M. Stultz, Woburn, MA (US); Brian M. Turczyk, Woburn, MA (US); Ty T. Vaughn, Clayton, MO (US); and Moritz W. F. Von Rechenberg, Waltham, MA (US)
Assigned to Monsanto Technology LLC, St. Louis, IL (US)
Filed by Monsanto Technology LLC, St. Louis, MO (US)
Filed on Jun. 5, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/894,459.
Application 16/894,459 is a continuation of application No. 15/868,676, filed on Jan. 11, 2018, granted, now 10,703,782.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/445,313, filed on Jan. 12, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2020/0369733 A1, Nov. 26, 2020
Int. Cl. C07K 14/325 (2006.01); C12N 15/82 (2006.01); A01N 63/50 (2020.01)
CPC C07K 14/325 (2013.01) [A01N 63/50 (2020.01); C12N 15/8286 (2013.01); Y02A 40/146 (2018.01)] 17 Claims
 
1. A polynucleotide construct comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding:
an insecticidal protein having at least 95% identity to an amino acid sequence comprising amino acids 1 through 607 of SEQ ID NO:8;
wherein said nucleotide sequence is operably linked to a heterologous promoter sequence.