Insect pathogens as biological control agents: Back to the future

LA Lacey, D Grzywacz, DI Shapiro-Ilan, R Frutos… - Journal of invertebrate …, 2015‏ - Elsevier
The development and use of entomopathogens as classical, conservation and augmentative
biological control agents have included a number of successes and some setbacks in the …

[HTML][HTML] Acute hepatopancreatic necrosis disease (AHPND): virulence, pathogenesis and mitigation strategies in shrimp aquaculture

V Kumar, S Roy, BK Behera, P Bossier, BK Das - Toxins, 2021‏ - mdpi.com
Shrimp, as a high-protein animal food commodity, are one of the fastest growing food
producing sectors in the world. It has emerged as a highly traded seafood product, currently …

Diversity and natural functions of antibiotics produced by beneficial and plant pathogenic bacteria

JM Raaijmakers, M Mazzola - Annual review of phytopathology, 2012‏ - annualreviews.org
Soil-and plant-associated environments harbor numerous bacteria that produce antibiotic
metabolites with specific or broad-spectrum activities against coexisting microorganisms …

Photorhabdus insect-related (Pir) toxin-like genes in a plasmid of Vibrio parahaemolyticus, the causative agent of acute hepatopancreatic necrosis disease (AHPND) …

JE Han, KFJ Tang, LH Tran, DV Lightner - Diseases of aquatic …, 2015‏ - int-res.com
The 69 kb plasmid pVPA3-1 was identified in Vibrio parahaemolyticus strain 13‑028/A3 that
can cause acute hepatopancreatic necrosis disease (AHPND). This disease is responsible …

Gifted microbes for genome mining and natural product discovery

RH Baltz - Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology, 2017‏ - academic.oup.com
Actinomycetes are historically important sources for secondary metabolites (SMs) with
applications in human medicine, animal health, and plant crop protection. It is now clear that …

[HTML][HTML] Biological control of arthropod pests in protected crop** by employing entomopathogens: Efficiency, production and safety

F Smagghe, R Spooner-Hart, ZH Chen… - Biological Control, 2023‏ - Elsevier
The increasing adoption of environmentally friendly agricultural pesticides can be attributed
to the continuous development and optimisation of both strategies and availability of …

Entomopathogenic nematode application technology

D Shapiro-Ilan, C Dolinski - Nematode Pathogenesis of Insects and Other …, 2015‏ - Springer
Biocontrol success when using entomopathogenic nematodes (EPNs) in the genera
Heterorhabditis and Steinernema relies on a variety of factors including components of the …

Full-length RecE enhances linear-linear homologous recombination and facilitates direct cloning for bioprospecting

J Fu, X Bian, S Hu, H Wang, F Huang, PM Seibert… - Nature …, 2012‏ - nature.com
Functional analysis of genome sequences requires methods for cloning DNA of interest.
However, existing methods, such as library cloning and screening, are too demanding or …

Genomic islands in pathogenic and environmental microorganisms

U Dobrindt, B Hochhut, U Hentschel… - Nature Reviews …, 2004‏ - nature.com
Horizontal gene transfer is an important mechanism for the evolution of microbial genomes.
Pathogenicity islands—mobile genetic elements that contribute to rapid changes in …

RTX proteins: a highly diverse family secreted by a common mechanism

I Linhartová, L Bumba, J Mašín, M Basler… - FEMS microbiology …, 2010‏ - academic.oup.com
Abstract Repeats-in-toxin (RTX) exoproteins of Gram-negative bacteria form a steadily
growing family of proteins with diverse biological functions. Their common feature is the …