Isolation and identification of entomopathogenic fungi from cultivated and natural soils in Kermanshah province (West of Iran)

An investigation was carried out on the occurrence and distribution of entomopathogenic fungi in ۴۱ soil samples collected from cultivated and natural regions in Kermanshah province (West of Iran) from July ۲۰۱۷ to April ۲۰۱۸. Among ۴۱ soil samples, ۱۱۴ fungal isolates were recovered with ۳۹ from forests, ۳۸ from fields, ۲۲ from rangelands and ۱۵ from garden soil. Based on the morphological characters and phylogeny of DNA sequence data for the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) rDNA and comparing the sequences with that available in NCBI database, the entomopathogenic fungi recovered were identified as: Aspergillus nomius*, Fusarium oxysporum, F. equiseti, Fusarium sp., Penicillim solitum, P. sizovae*, Penicillium sp., Alternaria chlamydosporigena, Meyerozyma guilliermondii, Paramyrothecium roridum, Chaetomium elatum, Beauveria bassiana*, B. pseudobassiana, and B. tenella*. The asterisk species are the new records for the mycobiota of Iran.    

کلیدواژه ها:

biological control ، Entomopathogenic fungi ، Ephestia kuehniella ، internal transcribed spacer ، Taxonomy