The development and use of entomopathogens as classical, conservation and augmentative
biological control agents have included a number of successes and some setbacks in the …

The genus Metarhizium and Pochonia chlamydosporia comprise a monophyletic clade of
highly abundant globally distributed fungi that can transition between long-term beneficial …

Metarhizium spp. are being used as environmentally friendly alternatives to chemical
insecticides, as model systems for studying insect-fungus interactions, and as a resource of …

It is now evident that entomopathogenic fungi are able to colonize plant tissues as
symptomless endophytes. Although most data so far published in this regard refer to …

The genus Diaporthe comprises pathogenic, endophytic and saprobic species with both
temperate and tropical distributions. Cryptic diversification, phenotypic plasticity and …

• Premise of the study: The soil‐inhabiting insect‐pathogenic fungus Metarhizium robertsii
also colonizes plant roots endophytically, thus showing potential as a plant symbiont …

Knowledge of pathogen biology and genetic diversity is a cornerstone of effective disease
management, and accurate identification of the pathogen is a foundation of pathogen …

The genus Metarhizium historically refers to green-spored asexual insect pathogenic fungi.
Through culturing and molecular methods, Metarhizium has been linked to Metacordyceps …

Colletotrichum interacts with numerous plant species overtly as symptomatic pathogens and
cryptically as asymptomatic endophytes. It is not known whether these contrasting ecological …

Over the last two decades the molecular phylogeny and classification of Metarhizium has
been widely studied. Despite these efforts to understand this enigmatic genus, the basal …