Development of Beauveria Insecticide

Beauveria is an entomopathogenic fungus that can multiply in various insects and produce leucovorin, oxytetracycline and calcium oxalate crystals simultaneously. This causes insect poisoning and disrupting insect metabolism to death. At present, Beauveria insecticide has strong pathogenicity, wide infestation range, adaptability, and no environmental pollution, etc. As a broad-spectrum microbial insecticide, it has been widely used in agriculture and forestry pest control.

Lifeasible is committed to biological control research and aims to provide solutions for green pesticide development. We focus on Beauveria insecticide development research, aiming to further improve the insecticidal properties of Beauveria. This is so that Beauveria can maximize protection against pests in the market.

What do we offer for Beauveria pesticide development?

Since Beauveria is genetically diverse and varies greatly in virulence, selecting and breeding superior strains with high spore production, high virulence, and rapid efficacy are particularly critical for the biological control of pests and diseases. We select and breed highly pathogenic Beauveria strains mainly through natural screening, artificial mutagenesis breeding, and genetic engineering.

• Natural screening method. As a conventional selection method, we isolate natural Beauveria strains from dead insects collected in the field. We select strains with strong infestation ability according to their spore production and virulence. Beauveria strains, in nature, facilitate screening of highly virulent strains. Using this method, many Beauveria strains can be isolated from soil and different insects. High virulence strains can be obtained through toxicity assays and other studies.
• Artificial mutagenesis breeding. The main purpose is to use physical mutagenic factors and chemical mutagens to select and breed highly virulent C. albicans strains. We mainly utilize UV mutagenesis and ion (N +) injection mutagenesis in Beauveria mutagenesis breeding. Using UV mutagenesis of Beauveria, mutant strains with high virulence and stability were obtained. In addition, we injected different doses of N+ into Coccidioides Beauveria and obtained mutant strains with high Pr1 protease production.
• Genetic engineering. Using genetic engineering techniques, we targeted and targeted mutagenesis of virulence genes in strains to enhance pathogenicity and improve the insecticidal efficiency of pathogenic fungi. For example, Vip3A is a highly efficient insecticidal protein produced by Bacillus thuringiensis. We used a budding spore transformation system to mediate the introduction of the Vip3Aa gene into a wild strain of Coccidioides Beauveria. We screened to obtain an engineered strain with high genetic stability and virulence.

Beauveria insecticide action characteristics

Beauveria insecticide is non-toxic to humans and animals, safe for crops, has no residue, no environmental pollution, and continuous infection to pests, and pests once infected can be spread by continuous infiltration.

• No pesticide residues. No pesticide residue will be caused by harvesting the product immediately after Beauveria is applied.
• No resistance, Beauveria is killed by contact with the pest's body wall under natural conditions, and the pest does not develop any resistance to it.
• The new bio-pesticide Beauveria contains live fungi and spores. After being applied to the field, with the help of suitable temperature and humidity, it can continue to reproduce and grow to enhance the insecticidal effect.
• Beauveria is highly selective and has less effect on non-target organisms such as ladybugs, thus providing better overall field control.

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Lifeasible is dedicated to the development and application of insecticides. The biological insecticides we have developed have achieved good results in pest control. If you are interested in us, please feel free to contact us.