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 …

Among invertebrate fungal pathogens, Beauveria bassiana has assumed a key role in
management of numerous arthropod agricultural, veterinary and forestry pests. Beauveria is …

Although many insects successfully live in dangerous environments exposed to diverse
communities of microbes, they are often exploited and killed by specialist pathogens …

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 …

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 …

This review examines the symbiotic, evolutionary, proteomic and genetic basis for a group of
fungi that occupy a specialized niche as insect pathogens as well as endophytes. We focus …

Insect pests persist in a wide-variety of agricultural, arboreal and urban environments.
Effective control with fungal entomopathogens using inundation biocontrol requires an …

Entomopathogenic fungi vary considerably in their mode of action and virulence. Successful
infection depends primarily on the adherence and penetration ability of a fungus to the host …

The entomogenous filamentous fungus, Beauveria bassiana expresses two hydrophobin
genes, hyd1 and hyd2, hypothesized to be involved in cell surface hydrophobicity, adhesion …

Molecular biology methods have elucidated pathogenic processes in several fungal
biocontrol agents including two of the most commonly applied entomopathogenic fungi …