Abstract:
This disclosure describes a genetically-modified microbe that is a symbiont of an animal that is a vector organism for a pathogenic microbe, a paratransgenic organism that includes the genetically-modified microbe, and methods involving use of the genetically-modified microbe and/or the paratransgenic organism. Generally, the genetically-modified microbe includes a heterologous polynucleotide that encodes a heterologous polypeptide that reduces transmission of the pathogenic microbe.
Abstract:
Novel particular-based pesticides formed from pesticidal agents encapsulated in one or more coatings wherein the coating enhances the pesticidal agent' s ability to control a pest population, and methods for making the same. In various embodiments the pesticidal agent may be a biopesticide and the coating may impart stability, protection from UV radiation and/or other environmental conditions, enhance the attractiveness of the pesticide to the pest, and/or serve to separate two different biologically incompatible pesticides within a mixture.