Selection of improved Beauveria bassiana (Bals.) Vuill. strains based on 2-deoxy-d-glucose resistance and physiological analysis

Journal of Invertebrate Pathology

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 222-227

  Robledo Monterrubio, M ^a,c   Alatorre Rosas, R ^b   Viniegra Gonzalez G ^a,b,c   Loera, O ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA CHAPINGO   (Mexico)

^b Instituto de Fitosanidad ^*  (Mexico)

^c DEPARTAMENTO DE QUÍMICA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Acheta domesticus; Beauveria bassiana; Biocontrol; Enhanced mutants; Morphological measurements; Pleiotropic mutations; Sphenarium purpurascens; Tenebrio molitor

Indexed keywords

DEOXYGLUCOSE;

ANIMAL; ANTIFUNGAL RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BEAUVERIA; BEETLE; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; DRUG EFFECT; GENETICS; GRASSHOPPER; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; GRYLLIDAE; LARVA; MICROBIOLOGY; MUTATION; PATHOGENICITY;

ANIMALS; BEAUVERIA; BEETLES; DEOXYGLUCOSE; DRUG RESISTANCE, FUNGAL; GRASSHOPPERS; GRYLLIDAE; LARVA; MUTATION; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL;

ACHETA DOMESTICUS; BEAUVERIA; CORDYCEPS BASSIANA; FUNGI; SPHENARIUM PURPURASCENS; TENEBRIO; TENEBRIO MOLITOR;

EID: 67650147987     PISSN: 00222011     EISSN: 10960805     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jip.2009.05.007     Document Type: Article

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