• Mycobiology
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• 제33권4호
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• pp.235-239
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• 2005

The present study was carried out to explore the Cordyceps species and other entomopathogenic fungal flora around Kathmandu Valley and a few high altitude locations of Nepal. In this paper, we report eight Cordyceps species as new to Nepal: C. gracilis, C. ishikariensis, C. liangshanensis, C. martialis, C. militaris, C. pruinosa, C. sphecocephala and C. tricentri. We also mention a few allied genera such as Beauveria, Hirsutella and Paecilomyces from Nepal. Further collections from different ecological regions of Nepal will show the richness of entomopathogenic fungal floral diversity of Nepal.

• International Journal of Industrial Entomology and Biomaterials
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• 제39권2호
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• pp.67-73
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• 2019

The genomic structure of the Cu/Zn superoxide dismutase (SOD1) gene from the entomopathogenic fungus, Cordyceps pruinosa was characterized. The SOD1 gene of C. pruinosa spans 947 nucleotides and consisted of four exons encoding for 154 amino acids and three introns. Four exons of the SOD1 gene are composed of 13, 331, 97 and 20 nucleotides respectively. Homology search of amino acid sequences of the SOD1 gene of C. pruinosa with another 13 fungi species showed higher sequence similarity of 69% ~ 95% and had the most highest sequence identity of 95% with Beauveria bassiana and Cordyceps militaris, which can easely infect domesticated Bombyx mori and another wild lepidopteran species in artificial or natual manner of infection. This SOD1 gene sequence showed copper, zinc and beta-barrel fold sites. Homology search showed that the Cu/Zn SOD1 gene from the entomopathogenic fungus, C. pruinosa is an orthologous gene homolog present in different species of organism whose ancestor predates the split between the relating species. In addition, C. pruinosa SOD1 gene is placed together within the ascomycetes group of fungal clade. From these results it is concluded that C. pruinosa SOD1 gene is orthologous gene having the same or very similar functions with a common evolutionary ancestor.

• Mycobiology
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• 제34권1호
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• pp.1-6
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• 2006

A Cordyceps species was found with a Beauveria anamorph state on larval insect cadavers on Obong mountains in Gangwon Provinces, Republic of Korea. Cultures from discharged ascospores formed an anamorph identifiable as Beauveria bassiana. This teleomorph-anamorph connection was also confirmed by the in vitro production of fertile ascomata from conidial cultures with morphology like that of field-collected specimen. This is the first report of in vitro production of a teleomorph for any Beauveria species. The Cordyceps species has been conspecified as Cordyceps bassiana, a species described from China with B. bassiana anamorph.

• 한국생물공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국생물공학회 2001년도 추계학술발표대회
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• pp.359-362
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• 2001

Traditionally, Cordyceps species have been used as a part of herbal medicine in Oriental countries, including Korea a for intemal health, vigorosity and to cure different diseases related to heart, lung etc. In the recent years, research on artificial fruiting of different Cordyceps species including C. militaris has been carried out in the world because of their medicinal value. Variationas well as instability occur during artificial fruiting. Instability observed in the in vitro fruiting of C. militaris is reported in the present study.

• 한국버섯학회지
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• 제2권3호
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• pp.140-144
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• 2004

전통적으로 Cordyceps종은 한국을 포함한 동양에서 건강증진과 심장과 폐에 관련된 질환을 치료하는 약용식물의 하나로 사용되어왔다. 최근에 동충하초의 약리적 가치때문에 큰번데기 동충하초를 포함한 몇가지 Cordyceps 종의 인공재배에 관한 연구가 활발하게 이루어지고 있다. 본 연구에서는 큰번데기 동충하초를 in vitro에서 인공재배한 결과 자실체 형성이 불안정한 것을 관찰하였기에 보고하고자 한다.

• 생명과학회지
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.400-411
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• 2003

5.8S rDNA를 포함한 ITS부위에 대한 염기서열 분석결과, 종에 따라 다양한 염기서열을 가지고 있어 분류에 이용될 수 있었으며, 특히 ITS2부위보다 ITS1부위에서 종에 대한 변이율이 높은 것으로 나타났다. 아울러 균종에 따라 정도의 차이는 있으나 사용된 모든 종들이 서로 계통분류학적 거리가 멀어서 종간의 구분이 명확하게 나타났다. P. tenuipes, I. japonica, P. japonicus는 multiple alignment분석에서 매우 유사한 염기서열을 가지고 있어, 이들 세종은 같은 종이지만 다른 이름으로 불리고 있는 것으로 나타났으며, 아울러 Paecilomyces sp. KACC 40220과 KACC 40656도 동일한 염기서열을 가지고 있어 p. tenuipes로 판단된다. 국내에서 유통되는 동충하초제품 35건과 중국산 1건에 대해 실험한 결과 23건은 P. tenuipes / japonica로, 11건은 C. militaris로, 1건은 B. bassiana로 분류되었으며, 중국산 제품 1건은 C. multiaxialis로 분류되었다.

• 한국토양동물학회지
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.28-36
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• 1996

A survey for entomopathogenic nematodes was conducted throughout the nine provinvrd and within three city limits during the summer of 1990 and 1991. Six of the nine provinces and one of the three cities were positive for entomopathogenic nematodes. Out of the total 499 soil samples, 23(4.6%) were positive for entomopathogenic nematodes with 19(3.8%) containing Steinernema and 4(0.8%) containing Heterorhabditis. Heterorhabditis bacteriopora and three distinct groups of Steinernema species were idintified. One groups was indentified as S. carpocapsae, another S. glaseri and the other S. monticola based on cross breeding studies. Positive sample sites in each habitat includes 15 of the 415(3.6%) from forests including regrowth areas with shrubs, 1 of the 27(3.7%) from turfgrass including golf courses and parks, 3 of the 24(12.5%) from agricultural fields, 2 of the 16(12.5%) along riparian areas, and of the 17(11.8%) near the seashore. We advocate that more surveys be conducted for entomopathogenic nematodes before commercial sources of nematodes are widely applied which may obscure the naturally-occurring nematodes. A key to Steinernema is provided for the identification.

• 한국유기농업학회지
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• 제31권4호
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• pp.427-439
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• 2023

The silverleaf whitefly, Bemisia tabaci, is a major pest distributing worldwide damaging over 900 host plant species, and is highly resistant to chemical pesti- cides. Due to the high pesticide resistance of whitefly, there is a need for alternatives to chemical control. Entomopathogenic fungi are candidates for biological pesticide that can overcome the resistance problem of chemical pesticide. Therefore, in this study, we tested pathogenicity of the entomopathogenic fungi to select high insec- ticidal activity against whitefly. As a result, IPBL-C (Cordyceps fumosorosea) and IPBL-F (Metarhizium pinghaense) isolates showed high insecticidal activity against whitefly. Additionally, as a result of culturing the selected isolates on spent coffee grounds medium, the conidia of IPBL-F produced on coffee grounds medium showed five times higher heat stability after heat treatment at 45℃ for one hour than conidia produced on PDA medium.

• 한국균학회지
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• 제25권4호통권83호
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• pp.239-252
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• 1997

1990년 부터 1996년까지 16개소의 채집지에서 채집되어 분류동정된 동충하초는 12속 33종으로 이중 Cordyceps bifusispora, C. martialis, C. oxycephala, C. paludosa, C. pentatomi, C. rosea, C. ryogamiensis, Shimizuomyces paradoxa, Akanthomyces aculeatus, Polycephalomyces ramosus, Tilachlidiopsis nigra 등 14종은 국내 미기록종이다. 주로 다수 채집된 동충하초인 C. nutans, C. specocephala, Paecilomyces tenuipes 등은 전 채집시기에 걸쳐 고루 분포하였다. C. mizitayis C. kyushuensis, C. pruinosa 등과 같이 자실체의 발생이 환경조건으로서 대기내 습도에 강하게 영향을 받는 종들의 경우는 주로 장마철이 시작되면서 상대습도가 높아지는 7월 중순부터 8월 중순까지 분포하는 것으로 나타났다. 채집된 동충하초중 분리된 종은 C. bifusispora를 포함하여 Cordyceps속 9종, 불완전 균류의 Beauveria bassiana, Metarhizium anisopliae, Paecilomyces tenuipes, Verticillium lecanii등 총 13종이며, 분리된 Cordyceps속 동충하초를 이용하여 완전세대와 불완전세대의 관계를 구명한 결과 C. militaris와 C. kyushuensis는 Verticillium속으로, C. pruinosa는 Acremonium속으로, C. sphecocephala는 Hymenostilbe속으로, C. scarabaeicola는 Beauveria속으로 각각 밝혀졌다.

• 한국균학회지
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• 제38권2호
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• pp.99-104
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• 2010

2003년부터 2007년까지 국내 여러 지역의 산과 섬 지역을 조사하여 진균에 감염된 죽은 곤충시료를 채집하였다. 채집한 곤충시료에 형성된 진균의 자실체 형태를 조사하고, 채집한 곤충시료에서 총 542균주의 진균을 분리하였다. 분리한 균주의 형태적 및 배양적 특성을 조사하여 동정한 결과, 분리빈도가 많은 곤충기생 진균은 Beauveria속이 3종, Cordyceps속이 8종, Isaria속이 4종이었다. 이외에 분리된 곤충기생 진균은 Metarhizium anisopliae, Nomuraea rileyi, Paecilomyces sp., Verticillium sp.였다.