Fecha de publicación: -- Fuente: WIPO "tomato" Compositions and methods for conferring nematicidal activity to bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues and seeds are provided. Further, methods for killing or controlling a nematode pest population, in Pratylenchus spp., e.g., Pratylenchus brachyurus, Pratylenchus penetrans, Pratylenchus scribneri, Pratylenchus neglectus, Pratylenchus zeae, Belonolaimus longicaudatus, Hoplolaimus galeatus, Helicotylenchus dihystera, Helicotylenchus pseudorobustus, or Xiphinema Americanum, root knot nematode, reniform nematode, soybean cyst nematode (Heterodera spp.) or Lance nematode population, are provided. The methods include contacting the nematode pest with a pesticidally-effective amount of individually or a combination of polypeptides comprising nematicidal toxins. Further included are methods for increasing yield in plants by expressing the genes of the embodiments in plants.