Global food security is threatened by insect pests of economically important crops. Chemical
pesticides have been used frequently for the last few decades to manage insect pests …

An important mechanism for insect pest control should be the use of fungal
entomopathogens. Even though these organisms have been studied for more than 100y …

Cordyceps, comprising over 400 species, was historically classified in the Clavicipitaceae,
based on cylindrical asci, thickened ascus apices and filiform ascospores, which often …

The Order Insecta contains nearly one million described species (May 2000) which
comprise approximately 67% of the world's described fauna and flora. Insects are central to …

Plant pathogens can emerge in agricultural ecosystems through several mechanisms,
including host-tracking, host jumps, hybridization and horizontal gene transfer. High …

Diverse insects are associated with ancient bacterial symbionts, whose genomes have often
suffered drastic reduction and degeneration. In extreme cases, such symbiont genomes …

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 …

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

Unlike most other fungi, molds of the genus Trichoderma (Hypocreales, Ascomycota) are
aggressive parasites of other fungi and efficient decomposers of plant biomass. Although …

The entomopathogenic fungi are organisms that evolved to exploit insects. They comprise a
wide range of morphologically, phylogenetically, and ecologically diverse fungal species …