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Identification of a putative Mexican strain of Serratia entomophila pathogenic against root-damaging larvae of Scarabaeidae (Coleoptera).
Applied and environmental microbiology - 1 Feb 2008
Nuñez-Valdez M Eugenia, Calderón Marco A, Aranda Eduardo, Hernández Luciano, Ramírez-Gama Rosa M, Lina Laura, Rodríguez-Segura Zitlhally, Gutiérrez María del C, Villalobos Francisco J
Abstract excerpt
The larvae of scarab beetles, known as "white grubs" and belonging to the genera Phyllophaga and Anomala (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae), are regarded as soil-dwelling pests in Mexico. During a survey conducted to find pathogenic bacteria with the potential to control scarab larvae, a native Serratia sp. (strain Mor4.1) was isolated from a dead third-instar Phyllophaga blanchardi larva collected from a cornfield in...
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