The Sugar Regulatory Administration is looking at mass-producing the entomopathogenic fungi to eliminate the red-striped soft scale insects that have been destroying sugarcane farms in ...

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THE Sugar Regulatory Administration (SRA) on Monday said it will conduct field testing of fungi that can possibly eliminate red striped soft-scale insect (RSSI) infestation in sugarcane. The fungi, ...

The discovered fungi, with scientific names Metarhizium anisopliae and Beauveria bassiana, are being studied as a long-term, sustainable solution to RSSI, noting that they multiply rapidly, taking ...

The fungus could be part of an integrated pest management approach to the infestation in sugar farms in the Visayas. The SRA said another RSSI-eating fungus is present in Bago, Negros Occidental, ...

WE have already described a fortuitous combination of events which led to the discovery that American newspapers and other paper products contain a potent analogue of the juvenile hormone of the ...

The aim of the present work was to study the effect of moisture content and inoculum on the growth and conidia production by Beauveria bassiana on wheat bran (WB).The highest growth rate of B.

The present approach constitutes a valuable tool for the selection of fungal strains that produce chemically interesting or biologically active secondary metabolites. marine-derived fungi; screening; ...

Three new cembranoid diterpenes, knightol (1), knightol acetate (2), and knightal (3), along with the known asperdiol (4) and asperdiol acetate (5), were isolated as major compounds from the sea whip ...