A major current challenge is to increase the food production while preserving natural
resources. Agricultural practices that enhance the productivity and progressively improve the …

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 …

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

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 …

Proteolytic enzymes play an important role in fungal physiology and development. External
digestion of protein substrates by secreted proteases is required for survival and growth of …

Entomopathogenic fungi can invade wide range of insect hosts in the natural world and
have been used as environmentally friendly alternatives to chemical insecticides for pest …

Broad host range insect pathogenic fungi penetrate through the host cuticle, necessitating
an ability to confront and overcome surface lipids and other molecules that often include …

In this chapter, we explore some of the evolutionary, ecological, molecular genetics, and
applied aspects of a subset of insect pathogenic fungi that also have a lifestyle as …

Parasitic fungi and their insect hosts provide an intriguing model system for dissecting the
complex co-evolutionary processes, which result in Red Queen dynamics. To explore the …

Biotic stress is known to cause numerous harmful effects on agricultural harvests worldwide.
Many biotic/living microbes, such as bacteria, fungi, virus, weeds, insects, nematodes, and …