Japanese Journal of Applied Entomology and Zoology (2007) 51, 234-237

Masanori Koike, Midori Sugimoto, Daigo Aiuchi, Hideyuki Nagao, Ryoji Shinya, Masayuki Tani and Katsuhisa Kuramochi (2007)
[Reclassification of Japanese isolates of Verticillium lecanii to Lecanicillium spp.]
Japanese Journal of Applied Entomology and Zoology 51 (3), 234-237
Abstract: Recently, Verticillium lecanii was transferred and subdivided into mainly Lecanicillium lecanii, L. muscarium, and L. longisporum according to morphological observations and PCR-RFLPs of ITS, mtDNA and ß-tubulin. To clarify whether 65 isolates of V. lecanii of mainly Japanese isolates were identified as Lecanicillium spp., conidia size and the formation of secondary phialide formation were investigated under a light microscope, and DNA polymorphism in the ß-tubulin gene of V. lecanii was analyzed by PCR-RFLP. These results indicated that the examined isolates belonged to L. muscarium (60 isolates) and L. longisporum (4 isolates), except for one isolate which alone did not belong to both Lecanicillium spp.
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Research topic(s) for pests/diseases/weeds:
biocontrol - natural enemies
Research topic(s) for beneficials or antagonists:
identification/taxonomy

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Pest and/or beneficial records:

Beneficial	Pest/Disease/Weed	Crop/Product	Country	Quarant.
Akanthomyces muscarius (entomopathogen)			Japan