Isolated nucleic acid melocula, DNA construct, host cell, transgenic plant, transformed seed, pesticide-isolated isolated polypeptide, composition and methods for controlling a lepidopteran pest population, to exterminate a lepidopteran pest, to produce an active polypeptide pesticide and 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 Lepidoptera. 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.
