subterranean termites are one of the most important pests of buildings, historic monuments and agricultural crops in some parts of iran. using entomopathogenic fungi as microbial insecticides is usually a part of biological control and insect pest management. the pathogenicity of entomopathogenic fungus, metarhizium anisopliae (metschnikoff) sorokin (demi 001) isolated from rhynchophorus ferrug...

The exopolysaccharide (EPS) separated from the entomopathogenic fungus Metarhizium anisopliae was determined by gel permeation chromatography to be homogeneous. The high-performance anion-exchange chromatography with pulsed-amperometric detection (HPAE-PAD) showed a content of monosaccharides D-galactosamine and D-fucose at a molar ratio of about 2:1. The results obtained from Fourier transform...

Entomopathogenic fungi produce secondary metabolites which may bioactively help fungus in its virulence toward insect hosts. Beauveria bassiana produces several toxic low molecular compounds in vitro as well as in vivo, the most important of them is Beauvericin. The BEH isolate of the fungus was selected for Beauvericin assay. Beauvericin was obtained from surface and submerged cultures of the ...