Colonization of corn, Zea mays, by the entomopathogenic fungus Beauveria bassiana
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The fungus Beauveria bassiana could be used as an natural insecticide on corn plants. When the fungus invades the corn leaf, it does not lose its virulence toward the European corn borer, Ostrinia nubilalis.
Publication Name: Applied and Environmental Microbiology
Subject: Biological sciences
ISSN: 0099-2240
Year: 2000
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Cloning of Beauveria bassiana chitinase gene Bbchit1 and its application to improve fungal strain virulence
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An endochitinase, Bbchit1, is purified from culture liquid of endochitinase grown in a medium in which colloidal chitin was the sole carbon and nitrogen source and it is examined that endochitinase overproduction can significantly enhance the virulence of B. bassiana. It is found that entomopathogenic fungi can produce a series of chitinases, some of which act synergistically with proteases to degrade insect cuticle.
Publication Name: Applied and Environmental Microbiology
Subject: Biological sciences
ISSN: 0099-2240
Year: 2005
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Molecular analysis of hypervirulent somatic hybrids of the entomopathogenic fungi Beauveria bassiana and Beauveria sulfurescens
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The molecular structures of hybrids of Beauveria bassiana and Beauveria sulfurescens were studied using six nuclear genes and a telomeric fingerprint probe. The hybrids, which resulted from protoplast fusion, are widely different from their parents in pathogenicity and appeared to be diploid or aneuploid with some portions of their genome exhibiting heterozygous characteristics. The study proved that somatic hybridization is ideal for the genetic improvement of biocontrol efficiency in the genus Beauveria.
Publication Name: Applied and Environmental Microbiology
Subject: Biological sciences
ISSN: 0099-2240
Year: 1998
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