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Stress tolerance and virulence of insect-pathogenic fungi are determined by environmental conditions during conidial formation.
Current genetics - 1 Aug 2015
Rangel Drauzio E N, Braga Gilberto U L, Fernandes Éverton K K, Keyser Chad A, Hallsworth John E, Roberts Donald W
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The virulence to insects and tolerance to heat and UV-B radiation of conidia of entomopathogenic fungi are greatly influenced by physical, chemical, and nutritional conditions during mycelial growth. This is evidenced, for example, by the stress phenotypes of Metarhizium robertsii produced on various substrates. Conidia from minimal medium (Czapek's medium without sucrose), complex medium, and insect (Lepidoptera...
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