Journal of Fungi (Feb 2024)

Multifaceted <i>Beauveria bassiana</i> and Other Insect-Related Fungi

  • Nicolás Pedrini,
  • Éverton K. K. Fernandes,
  • Ivan M. Dubovskiy

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/jof10020142
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 2
p. 142

Abstract

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Since Agostino Bassi first isolated the fungal pathogenic agent of the white muscardine in insects (later named Beauveria bassiana in his honor), and Ilya Mechnikov cultivated Metarhizium anisopliae as a first approach to use fungi as pest control agents, many other entomopathogenic fungi have been studied over the last two centuries [...]

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