Establishing Fungal Entomopathogens as Endophytes: Towards Endophytic Biological Control

Establishing Fungal Entomopathogens as Endophytes: Towards Endophytic Biological Control

Beauveria bassiana is a fungal entomopathogen with the ability to colonize plants endophytically. As an endophyte, B. bassiana may play a role in protecting plants from herbivory and disease. This protocol demonstrates two inoculation methods to establish B. bassiana endophytically in the common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris), in preparation for subsequent evaluations of endophytic biological contro...

Fungal Entomopathogens: An Enigmatic Pest Control Alternative

Insect pathology and fungal endophytes.

Fungi that occur inside asymptomatic plant tissues are known as fungal endophytes. Different genera of fungal entomopathogens have been reported as naturally occurring fungal endophytes, and it has been shown that it is possible to inoculate plants with fungal entomopathogens, making them endophytic. Their mode of action against insects appears to be due to antibiosis or feeding deterrence. Res...

Fungal Endophytes : Promising

International Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences Review and Research Available online at www.globalresearchonline.net 128 Pramod Kumar Pandey, Siddhartha Singh, Raj Naraian Singh Yadav, Amit Kumar Singh*, M. Chandra Kumar Singh Department of Basic Science and Humanities, College of Horticulture and Forestry, Central Agricultural University, Pasighat, Arunachal Pradesh, India. Centre for Studies...

Fungal Endophytes of Grasses

Mutualistic interactions between species are receiving increased attention from ecologists, although research lags far behind analogous work on competition or predator-prey interactions. Most research has focused on rather showy mutualisms such as pollination or fruit dispersal and has suggested that mutualisms are more important in tropical communities than in temperate communities (67). Plant...