Beauveria brongniartii

Rodrigues, C. and Pratissoli, D. 1990. Pathogenicity of Beauveria brongniartii (Sacc. Petch) and Metarhizium anisopliae (Mots Sorok) and its effect on the com weevil and bean beetle. Ann. Soc. Entomol. Bras. 190, 301-306. 

Almansa E, Heumann S, Eberl A et al (2008) Surface hydrolysis of polyamide with a new polyamidase from Beauveria brongniartii. Biocatal Biotrans 26 371-377... 

Erlacher, A., Sousa, F., Schroeder, M., Jus, S., Kokol, V., Cavaco-Paulo, A., and Guebitz, G. M. (2006). A new cuticle scale hydrolysing protease from Beauveria brongniartii. Biotechnology Letters, 28, 703-710. 

Fig. 9. Life cycle of the entomopathogenic fungus Beauveria brongniartii.

Shimazu M, Mitsuhashi W, Hashimoto H. Cordyceps brongniartii sp. nov., the teleomorph of Beauveria brongniartii. Trans Mycol Soc Jpn 29 323-330, 1988. 

Beauveria has long been considered to be a clavicipitalean anamorph (Arx, 1986 Samson et al., 1988). However, irrefutable proof was obtained only when Shimazu et al., (1998) described a new Cordyceps species (C. brongniartii), ascospore isolations from which produced Beauveria brongniartii (Sacc.) Petch in culture. 

Keller S. Control of May beetle grubs (Melolontha melolontha L.) with the fungus Beauveria brongniartii (Sacc.) Petch. In Samson RA, Vlak JM, Peters D, eds. Fundamental and Applied Aspects of Invertebrate Pathology. Wageningen, The Netherlands Foundation of the Fourth International Colloquium of Invertebrate Pathology, 1986, pp 525-528. 

Keller S, Schweizer C, Keller E, Brenner H. Control of white grubs (Melolontha melolontha L.) by treating adults with the fungus Beauveria brongniartii. Biocontrol Sci Technol 7 105-116, 1997. 

With lipases, improved dyeing behavior, water absorption, and oil stain resistance of PET fabrics have been claimed following treatment with enzymes from T. insolens [1, 62, 72, 101] and T. lanuginosus [4, 11, 26]. Treatment of PET fabrics with lipases from Aspergillus spp., Beauveria brongniartii, C. antarctica, C. cylindracea, Rhizomucor miehei, Burkholderia cepacia. Pseudomonas fluores-cens, Rhizopus spp., and porcine (hog) pancreas lipase resulted in increased hydrophilicity, moisture regain, and water absorption values [4,33,38,44,51,52,60,103]. 

The main entomopathogens are Verticillium lecanii for control of aphids, white fly and thrips, Beauveria bassiana and B. brongniartii for control of lepidopteran and coleopteran species and Metarhizium aniso-pliae and M. flavoviride for control of insect pests of coffee and sugar cane and, more recently, to control locust swarms. 

An alkaline Ca2+-dependent protease was purified from B. brongniartii, the other main insect pathogenic Beauveria species, by Erlacher et al. (2006). The enzyme hydrolyzed the chromogenic substrates A-succinyl-Ala-Ala-Pro-Phe-pNA and A-succinyl-Ala-Ala-Pro-Leu-/ NA. Both of these substrates are specific for serine proteases which is in contrast to the fact... 

The genomic DNA encoding Prl in the other main insect pathogenic Beauveria species, B. brongniartii contains three introns that are 64, 57-, and 61-bp long (Sheng et al., 2006). The deduced amino-acid sequence of the protein shows similarity to that of Prl from M anisopliae (67%), and Prl from B. bassiana (76%). The calculated molecular mass of the Prl precursor is 39121 Da and its pi is 8.0. The protein has three active sites characteristic of subtilisin-like serine proteases. 

Heterogalactomannans Lecanicillium muscarium, Beauveria bassuma, B. brongniartii, Cordyceps sphingum 27... 

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