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Microbes for Sustainable Insect Pest Management pp 115–149Cite as

Potential of Entomopathogenic Bacteria and Fungi

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Soil is a reservoir of numerous microorganisms critical for the sustainable functioning of natural and managed ecosystems. Entomopathogenic bacteria and fungi are natural enemies of pest-insects, whose utility in agroecosystems has been studied since decades. These entomopathogens spend significant time period in soil, either as saprotrophs, active conidia, resting spores or dormant endospores. In this chapter, we focus on: (a) the different bacterial and fungal species exhibiting entomopathogenicity; (b) insect-hosts and pathology; and (c) their survival in soil. Studying these aspects is of the utmost importance in fully exploiting the potential of these microorganisms. The bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis and fungi from the orders Entomophthorales and Hypocreales are discussed in more details, pertaining to the amount of literature and their dominance in the microbial biopesticide industry.

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This work is a part of L. Sharma’s PhD dissertation at the ‘University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro’, Vila Real, Portugal. The funding was provided by the ‘Centre for the Research and Technology of Agro-Environmental and Biological Sciences’ (CITAB) through the fellowship: BIM/UTAD/16/2018; and by the EcoVitis project. National Funds by FCT – Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, UID/AGR/04033/2013; and the European Investment Funds by FEDER/COMPETE/POCI Operacional Competitiveness and Internationalization Programme, under the Project POCI-01-0145-FEDER-006958, are also acknowledged. Due to the limited space, we could not cite many relevant articles. However, we deeply acknowledge those works.

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  2. School of Genetics and Biotechnology, University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, UTAD, Vila Real, Portugal

    Nitin Bohra

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Sharma, L., Bohra, N., Singh, R.K., Marques, G. (2019). Potential of Entomopathogenic Bacteria and Fungi. In: Khan, M., Ahmad, W. (eds) Microbes for Sustainable Insect Pest Management . Sustainability in Plant and Crop Protection. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23045-6_4

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