Metarhizium: jack of all trades, master of many

RJ St. Leger, JB Wang - Open Biology, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The genus Metarhizium and Pochonia chlamydosporia comprise a monophyletic clade of
highly abundant globally distributed fungi that can transition between long-term beneficial …

Entomopathogenic fungi and their relevance in sustainable agriculture: A review

A Sharma, S Sharma, PK Yadav - Cogent Food & Agriculture, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The use of entomopathogenic fungi (EPF) like Beauveria, Metarhizium, Lecanicillium, and
Isaria is upsurging in recent years for the management of crop insect pests. EPF are …

Entomopathogenic fungi Beauveria bassiana and Metarhizium anisopliae play roles of maize (Zea mays) growth promoter

Y Liu, Y Yang, B Wang - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Beauveria bassiana and Metarhizium anisopliae are two of the most important and widely
used entomopathogenic fungi (EPFs) to control insect pests. Recent studies have revealed …

PHI-base: a new interface and further additions for the multi-species pathogen–host interactions database

M Urban, A Cuzick, K Rutherford, A Irvine… - Nucleic acids …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
The pathogen–host interactions database (PHI-base) is available at www. phi-base. org. PHI-
base contains expertly curated molecular and biological information on genes proven to …

Insect pathogenic fungi: genomics, molecular interactions, and genetic improvements

C Wang, S Wang - Annual review of entomology, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Entomopathogenic fungi play a pivotal role in the regulation of insect populations in nature,
and representative species have been developed as promising environmentally friendly …

Phylogenomics of a new fungal phylum reveals multiple waves of reductive evolution across Holomycota

LJ Galindo, P López-García, G Torruella… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Compared to multicellular fungi and unicellular yeasts, unicellular fungi with free-living
flagellated stages (zoospores) remain poorly known and their phylogenetic position is often …

Divergent and convergent evolution of fungal pathogenicity

Y Shang, G **ao, P Zheng, K Cen… - Genome biology and …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Fungal pathogens of plants and animals have multifarious effects; they cause devastating
damages to agricultures, lead to life-threatening diseases in humans, or induce beneficial …

The insect pathogens

B Lovett, RJS Leger - The fungal kingdom, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Estimates of the number of arthropod species vary between 1,170,000 and 10 million,
accounting for over 80% of all known living animal species. One arthropod subgroup …

Advances in genomics of entomopathogenic fungi

JB Wang, RJS Leger, C Wang - Advances in genetics, 2016 - Elsevier
Fungi are the commonest pathogens of insects and crucial regulators of insect populations.
The rapid advance of genome technologies has revolutionized our understanding of …

Genomic determinants of entomopathogenic fungi and their involvement in pathogenesis

RP Vidhate, VV Dawkar, SA Punekar, AP Giri - Microbial ecology, 2023 - Springer
Entomopathogenic fungi offer an effective and eco-friendly alternative to curb insect
populations in biocontrol strategy. The evolutionary history of selected entomopathogenic …