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Entomopathogenic Fungi on Hemiberlesia pitysophila

Hemiberlesia pitysophila Takagi is an extremely harmful exotic insect in forest to Pinus species, including Pinus massoniana. Using both morphological taxonomy and molecular phylogenetics, we identified 15 strains of entomogenous fungi, which belong to 9 genera with high diversities. Surprisingly, w...

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Autores principales: Lv, Chengqun, Huang, Baoling, Qiao, Mengji, Wei, Jiguang, Ding, Bo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3161996/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21901126
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0023649
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Huang, Baoling
Qiao, Mengji
Wei, Jiguang
Ding, Bo
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description Hemiberlesia pitysophila Takagi is an extremely harmful exotic insect in forest to Pinus species, including Pinus massoniana. Using both morphological taxonomy and molecular phylogenetics, we identified 15 strains of entomogenous fungi, which belong to 9 genera with high diversities. Surprisingly, we found that five strains that were classified as species of Pestalotiopsis, which has been considered plant pathogens and endophytes, were the dominant entomopathogenic fungus of H. pitysophila. Molecular phylogenetic tree established by analyzing sequences of ribosomal DNA internal transcribed spacer showed that entomopathogenic Pestalotiopsis spp. were similar to plant Pestalotiopsis, but not to other pathogens and endophytes of its host plant P. massoniana. We were the first to isolate entomopathogenic Pestalotiopsis spp. from H. pitysophila. Our findings suggest a potential and promising method of H. pitysophila bio-control.
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spelling pubmed-31619962011-09-07 Entomopathogenic Fungi on Hemiberlesia pitysophila Lv, Chengqun Huang, Baoling Qiao, Mengji Wei, Jiguang Ding, Bo PLoS One Research Article Hemiberlesia pitysophila Takagi is an extremely harmful exotic insect in forest to Pinus species, including Pinus massoniana. Using both morphological taxonomy and molecular phylogenetics, we identified 15 strains of entomogenous fungi, which belong to 9 genera with high diversities. Surprisingly, we found that five strains that were classified as species of Pestalotiopsis, which has been considered plant pathogens and endophytes, were the dominant entomopathogenic fungus of H. pitysophila. Molecular phylogenetic tree established by analyzing sequences of ribosomal DNA internal transcribed spacer showed that entomopathogenic Pestalotiopsis spp. were similar to plant Pestalotiopsis, but not to other pathogens and endophytes of its host plant P. massoniana. We were the first to isolate entomopathogenic Pestalotiopsis spp. from H. pitysophila. Our findings suggest a potential and promising method of H. pitysophila bio-control. Public Library of Science 2011-08-25 /pmc/articles/PMC3161996/ /pubmed/21901126 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0023649 Text en Lv et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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Entomopathogenic Fungi on Hemiberlesia pitysophila
title Entomopathogenic Fungi on Hemiberlesia pitysophila
title_full Entomopathogenic Fungi on Hemiberlesia pitysophila
title_fullStr Entomopathogenic Fungi on Hemiberlesia pitysophila
title_full_unstemmed Entomopathogenic Fungi on Hemiberlesia pitysophila
title_short Entomopathogenic Fungi on Hemiberlesia pitysophila
title_sort entomopathogenic fungi on hemiberlesia pitysophila
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3161996/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21901126
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0023649
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