Introduction Nematophagous and entomopathogenic fungi (NEF) comprise an important group of fungal parasites of invertebrates (FPI). NEF belong to a wide range of fungal taxa, but most of them are anamorphic fungi and facultative parasites. These fungi can infect, kill and digest nematodes and insects, respectively, which we will call their canonical, or normal, hosts. These hosts have barriers ...

over one-year period, 150 pasture soil samples and 138 sheep faecal samples, collected from different parts of iran were screened for the presence of nematophagous fungi. the samples were cultured at 25ºc on chloramphenicol-2% water agar (chf-wa) plates in the presence of haemonchus contortus third stage larvae (l3) and checked over a two-month period for characteristic conidia, conidiophores a...

Nematophagous fungi Pochonia chlamydosporia and P. rubescens colonize endophytically barley roots. During nematode infection, serine proteases are secreted. We have investigated whether such proteases are also produced during root colonization. Polyclonal antibodies against serine protease P32 of P. rubescens cross-reacted with a related protease (VCP1) of P. chlamydosporia, but not with barley...

The influence of climate and time of deposition on the colonization of sheep faeces by nematophagous fungi was examined in the Mata Region of Minas Gerais State, Brazil. Sheep faeces were collected from the rectums of animals and deposited on pastures of Brachiaria decumbens in the months of July and October 1995 and January and April 1996. Samples of the deposited faeces were recovered 3, 7 an...

Nematophagous fungi are potential agents to be employed for biological control of helminthes. The ovicidal activity of the nematophagous fungi Pochonia chlamydosporia (isolates VC1 and VC4) and Paecilomyces lilacinus on egg capsules of Dipylidium caninum, a cestoda parasite of dogs, cats and men, was evaluated on Petri dishes cultures. One thousand of D. caninum egg capsules were placed onto Pe...

A novel method was described for promoting conidial production of nematophagous fungus, Pochonia chlamydosporia AS6.8, by hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) treatment and two-stage cultivation. The fungi were first grown on potato dextrose agar plates to encourage vegetative growth, after briefly treating with 90 mM concentrations of H2O2, and then were transferred to water agar (WA) plates for sporulati...

among fungi, species of the genus paecilomyces are considered as promising biological control agents with high potential to reduce root-knot nematode (rkn) and other nematode populations. in this research we investigated a soil hyphomycetes, paecilomyces marquandii and its pathogenicity on eggs of rkn in vitro. in greenhouse test, root weight, plant length, fresh weight and dry weight of plants...

Parasitic helminths eggs released into the environment through defecation of definitive hosts are affected by various environmental factors [1]. It is believed that these eggs are also invaded and eliminated by different biological agents including fungi [2]. Nematophagous fungi are potential agents for biocontrol of helminths eggs; these fungi, divided into predators, endoparasites, and ovicid...

Two nematode trapping fungi were isolated from aerated soil samples collected fron Anand district( Gujarat) India and identified on the basis of their culture –morphological characteristics and 18S rRNA gene sequencing as Arthrobotrys oligospora and Duddingtonia flagrans . These fungal isolates were assessed for their trapping efficiency further. Trapping structures such as ring like structures...