Action on the Surface: Entomopathogenic Fungi versus the Insect Cuticle

A Ortiz-Urquiza, NO Keyhani - Insects, 2013 - mdpi.com
Infections mediated by broad host range entomopathogenic fungi represent seminal
observations that led to one of the first germ theories of disease and are a classic example of …

Mode of Infection of Metarhizium spp. Fungus and Their Potential as Biological Control Agents

KMS Aw, SM Hue - Journal of fungi, 2017 - mdpi.com
Chemical insecticides have been commonly used to control agricultural pests, termites, and
biological vectors such as mosquitoes and ticks. However, the harmful impacts of toxic …

The Entomopathogenic Fungi Metarhizium brunneum and Beauveria bassiana Promote Systemic Immunity and Confer Resistance to a Broad Range of Pests and …

R Gupta, R Keppanan, M Leibman-Markus… - …, 2022 - Am Phytopath Society
Biocontrol agents can control pathogens by reenforcing systemic plant resistance through
systemic acquired resistance (SAR) or induced systemic resistance (ISR). Trichoderma spp …

Isolation and identification of entomopathogenic fungus from Eastern Ghats of South Indian forest soil and their efficacy as biopesticide for mosquito control

P Vivekanandhan, S Bedini, MS Shivakumar - Parasitology international, 2020 - Elsevier
The repeated usage of chemical insecticides, responsible for insecticide resistance in
mosquitoes and environmental toxicity. Currently effective and environmental-safe control …

Single cell encapsulation in a Pickering emulsion stabilized by TiO2 nanoparticles provides protection against UV radiation for a biopesticide

RA Feldbaum, N Yaakov, KA Mani, E Yossef… - Colloids and Surfaces B …, 2021 - Elsevier
A new formulation for biological pest control with significant UV protection capability has
been developed in this research. The formulation is based on individual encapsulation of …

Guttation capsules containing hydrogen peroxide: an evolutionarily conserved NADPH oxidase gains a role in wars between related fungi

J Zhang, Y Miao, MJ Rahimi, H Zhu… - Environmental …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
When resources are limited, the hypocrealean fungus Trichoderma guizhouense can
overgrow another hypocrealean fungus Fusarium oxysporum, cause sporadic cell death and …

Identification of insecticidal molecule aucubin from Metarhizium anisopliae ethyl acetate crude extract against disease mosquito vector

P Vivekanandhan, K Swathy… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
Identification of insecticidal compounds from the entomopathogenic fungus Metarhizium
anisopliae crude extract was performed by TLC and column fractionation. From the …

Initial stages of endophytic colonization by Metarhizium involves rhizoplane colonization

L Barelli, CC Moreira, MJ Bidochka - Microbiology, 2018 - microbiologyresearch.org
Here we assessed the time course of rhizoplane colonization by the endophytic insect
pathogenic fungus Metarhizium robertsii. We describe a method of quantifying root …

Secondary metabolite gene clusters in the entomopathogen fungus Metarhizium anisopliae: genome identification and patterns of expression in a cuticle infection …

N Sbaraini, RLM Guedes, FC Andreis, Â Junges… - BMC genomics, 2016 - Springer
Background The described species from the Metarhizium genus are cosmopolitan fungi that
infect arthropod hosts. Interestingly, while some species infect a wide range of hosts (host …

Single cell encapsulation via pickering emulsion for biopesticide applications

N Yaakov, K Ananth Mani, R Felfbaum, M Lahat… - ACS …, 2018 - ACS Publications
A new approach for single cell microencapsulation in an oil-in-water (o/w) Pickering
emulsion is presented. The water/paraffin emulsions were stabilized by amine …