Exploiting the genetic diversity of Beauveria bassiana for improving the biological control of the coffee berry borer through the use of strain mixtures

Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Volumn 71, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 918-926

  Cruz, Lina P ^a   Gaitan, Alvaro L ^b   Gongora, Carmenza E ^a  

^a Cenicafé FNC National Center of Coffee Research National Federation of Coffee Growers   (Colombia)

^b CENICAFE   (Colombia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS; DNA; FUNGI; PEST CONTROL;

BEAUVERIA BASSIANA; COFFEE BERRY BORER; HYPOTHENEMUS HAMPEI;

GENES;

BETA TUBULIN; GENOMIC DNA; SPACER DNA;

BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COFFEE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA; ENTOMOPATHOGENIC ORGANISM; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME; INSECT; INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT; INTRASPECIFIC INTERACTION; VIRULENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; ARTICLE; BEAUVERIA; BEETLE; BERRY; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COFFEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROP PEST; ENTOMOPATHOGENY; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COFFEE; DNA, FUNGAL; FRUIT; GENOTYPE; MITOSPORIC FUNGI; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; TUBULIN; VARIATION (GENETICS); VIRULENCE;

FUNGI; GENES; NUCLEIC ACIDS; PEST CONTROL;

COLOMBIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

CORDYCEPS BASSIANA; HYPOTHENEMUS HAMPEI; INSECTA;

EID: 33746712886     PISSN: 01757598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00253-005-0218-0     Document Type: Article

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