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 …

Among invertebrate fungal pathogens, Beauveria bassiana has assumed a key role in
management of numerous arthropod agricultural, veterinary and forestry pests. Beauveria is …

Insects combat infection by mounting powerful immune responses that are mediated by
hemocytes, the fat body, the midgut, the salivary glands and other tissues. Foreign …

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

Fungi must meet four criteria to infect humans: growth at human body temperatures,
circumvention or penetration of surface barriers, lysis and absorption of tissue, and …

Botanical insecticides provide a multitude of chemistries for the development of new pest
management products. Despite relatively low rates of expansion of botanically based …

Investigation of insect immune mechanisms provides important information concerning
innate immunity, which in many aspects is conserved in animals. This is one of the reasons …

Entomopathogenic fungi play a pivotal role in the regulation of insect populations in nature,
and representative species have been developed as promising environmentally friendly …

This review examines the symbiotic, evolutionary, proteomic and genetic basis for a group of
fungi that occupy a specialized niche as insect pathogens as well as endophytes. We focus …

One billion people worldwide are affected by fungal pathogens, of which 1.6 million
succumb to fungal infections per year. This review discusses the emergence and evolution …