Insect-fungal-interactions: A detailed review on entomopathogenic fungi pathogenicity to combat insect pests

W Islam, M Adnan, A Shabbir, H Naveed… - Microbial …, 2021 - Elsevier
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 …

Nonribosomal peptide synthesis—principles and prospects

RD Süssmuth, A Mainz - Angewandte Chemie International …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Nonribosomal peptide synthetases (NRPSs) are large multienzyme machineries that
assemble numerous peptides with large structural and functional diversity. These peptides …

Entomopathogenic fungi: unconventional applications

A Litwin, M Nowak, S Różalska - Reviews in Environmental Science and …, 2020 - Springer
Entomopathogenic fungi (EPF) are microorganisms that cause fatal diseases of arthropods.
The infection process involves several stages that consist of direct contact of the fungus with …

Entomopathogenic fungi: new insights into host–pathogen interactions

TM Butt, CJ Coates, IM Dubovskiy, NA Ratcliffe - Advances in genetics, 2016 - Elsevier
Although many insects successfully live in dangerous environments exposed to diverse
communities of microbes, they are often exploited and killed by specialist pathogens …

Genomic perspectives on the evolution of fungal entomopathogenicity in Beauveria bassiana

G Xiao, SH Ying, P Zheng, ZL Wang, S Zhang… - Scientific reports, 2012 - nature.com
The ascomycete fungus Beauveria bassiana is a pathogen of hundreds of insect species
and is commercially produced as an environmentally friendly mycoinsecticide. We …

Deciphering the Cryptic Genome: Genome-wide Analyses of the Rice Pathogen Fusarium fujikuroi Reveal Complex Regulation of Secondary Metabolism and Novel …

P Wiemann, CMK Sieber, KW Von Bargen… - PLoS …, 2013 - journals.plos.org
The fungus Fusarium fujikuroi causes “bakanae” disease of rice due to its ability to produce
gibberellins (GAs), but it is also known for producing harmful mycotoxins. However, the …

Genome Sequencing and Comparative Transcriptomics of the Model Entomopathogenic Fungi Metarhizium anisopliae and M. acridum

Q Gao, K Jin, SH Ying, Y Zhang, G Xiao, Y Shang… - PLoS …, 2011 - journals.plos.org
Metarhizium spp. are being used as environmentally friendly alternatives to chemical
insecticides, as model systems for studying insect-fungus interactions, and as a resource of …

Insect pathogenic fungi: genomics, molecular interactions, and genetic improvements

C Wang, S Wang - Annual review of entomology, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Entomopathogenic fungi play a pivotal role in the regulation of insect populations in nature,
and representative species have been developed as promising environmentally friendly …

Machine learning in agricultural planting, growing, and harvesting contexts

DP Perry, GA Von Maltzahn, R Berendes… - US Patent …, 2022 - Google Patents
US11263707B2 - Machine learning in agricultural planting, growing, and harvesting contexts
- Google Patents US11263707B2 - Machine learning in agricultural planting, growing, and …

Unveiling the biosynthetic puzzle of destruxins in Metarhizium species

B Wang, Q Kang, Y Lu, L Bai… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
Insect pathogenic fungi produce a plethora of insecticidally and pharmaceutically active
compounds, including 39 cyclohexadepsipeptide destruxins (dtxs). Even though dtxs were …