Isolated nucleic acid molecule, dna construct, isolated polypeptide with pesticidal activity, composition, method for controlling a beetle population pest, method for killing a coleopteran pest, method for producing a pesticide activity polypeptide, plant a dna stably incorporated into its genome and method to protect a plant from a pest
The invention provides nucleic acids, and variants and fragments thereof, obtained from strains of Bacillus thuringiensis encoding polypeptides having pesticidal activity against insect pests, including Coleoptera. Particular embodiments of the invention provide isolated nucleic acids encoding pesticidal proteins, pesticidal compositions, DNA constructs, and transformed microorganisms and plants comprising a nucleic acid of the embodiments. These compositions find use in methods for controlling pests, especially plant pests.
