Patent ID: 7951389
Filing Date: 2011-05-31
Classification: A01N

Abstract:
1. An entomopathogenic fungal composition comprising a preconidial mycelium of an entomopathogenic fungus cultivated on a solid substrate wherein the preconidial mycelium is cultured from a sector of an entomopathogenic fungus culture displaying the preconidial mycelium rather than those sectors displaying post-conidial mycelium and wherein the entomopathogenic fungus is selected from the group consisting of Metarhizium, Beauveria, Paecilomyces, Hirsutella, Verticillium, Culicinomyces, Nomuraea, Aspergillus, Cordyceps, Ascosphaera, Torrubiella, Hypocrella and its Aschersonia anamorph, Entomophaga, Massospora, Neozygites, Zoophthora, Pandora and Laccaria species and combinations thereof.