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Identification of Entomopathogenic Fungus, Beauveria spp. F-101 Isolated from Thecodiplosis japonensis Using Internal Transcribed Spacer Sequence  

Shin, Sang-Chul (Division of Forest Insect Pests and Diseases, Korea Forest Research Institute)
Roh, Jong-Yul (School of Agricultural Biotechnology, Seoul National University)
Kim, Chul-Su (Division of Forest Insect Pests and Diseases, Korea Forest Research Institute)
Park, Il-Kwon (Division of Forest Insect Pests and Diseases, Korea Forest Research Institute)
Jeon, Mun-Jang (Department of Life & Environment, College of Natural Resources, Taegu University)
Je, Yeon-Ho (School of Agricultural Biotechnology, Seoul National University)
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International Journal of Industrial Entomology and Biomaterials / v.8, no.1, 2004 , pp. 77-80 More about this Journal
Abstract
For the development of the alternative control system against the major forest pests, Beauveria spp. F-101, isolated from a dead larva of Thecodiplosis japonensis, was selected because this isolate showed high pathogenicities against T. japonensis and Acantholyda parki. Beauveria spp. F-101 had irregular clustered conidio-phores and conidia borne on a distinctive apical zigzag extension, and it showed typical characteristic of the genus, Beauveria in morphology. For molecular based-identification, the ribosomal ITS region of Beauveria spp. F-101 was amplified with ITS1 and ITS4 primers, and cloned into pGEM- T Easy vector. The amplified PCR product was 569 bp in size and completely sequenced. The similarities of the cloned ITS sequence were 99 % and 97% to those of B. bassiana and B. brongniartii, respectively. In comparison to other species among the genus Beauveria, the ITS region of Beauveria spp. F-101 showed a similarity of 95% to B. amorpha, 95% to B. tenella, 89% to B. vermiconia and 69% to B. alba, respectively. In addition, in comparison to different genus, it had 95% similarities to Cordyceps militaris and 91% to Paecilomyces tenuipes. Accordingly, the current result suggests that Beauveria spp. F-101 was a variant of B. bassiana and it seems to be a new isolate considering sequence variation in ITS region.
Keywords
Beauveria bassiana F-l01; Pathogenicity; Thecodiplosis japonensis; Acantholyda parki; Internal transcribed spacer; Forest pest control;
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