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Biological control & Registration of fungi

Biological control & Registration of fungi

Working Group of Hermann Strasser

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WG Strasser

Control of subterranean pests (e.g. grape phylloxera, scarab, wireworm and weevil pests, western corn root worm) and ticks with mycoinsecticides such as Beauveria spp. and Metarhizium spp., plant diseases and biological pest control, production and formulation, risk assessment and registration, exploitation of metabolites from biocontrol agents, , structure elucidation of secondary metabolites, soil microbiology.

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Research

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    • Entomopathogenic Fungi & Biocontrol
    • Biotechnology & Biopesticides
    • Risk assessment & Registration
    • Mitosporic fungi isolation and identification
    • Propagation and storage
    • Propagule enumeration (direct and indirect enumeration)
    • Testing the pathogenicity (Host assays and bioassays i.e. Scarabs, Chrysomelidae)
    • Safety testing procedure, risk assessment and registration
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Projects

CURCUCONT - sugar beet weevil (2019-2022): Potential of the entomopathogenic fungus Metarhizium brunneum for the biological control of the sugar beet weevil Bothynoderes punctiventris.

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MELOPHYL – is a joint project to characterise the persistence of two entomopathogenic fungal antagonists – Beauveria brongniartii BIPESCO 2 and Metarhizium brunneum BIPESCO 5 - in Scarabaeidae infested areas in North Tyrol (Austria).

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MELBEAUPOP – a joint project of the Agroscope Reckenholz, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL and University Innsbruck to monitor and characterise the natural entomopathogenic antagonist B. brongniartii in cockchafer infested areas in East-, North- and South Tyrol and Switzerland.

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Group Leader

Mag. Dr. Hermann Strasser

  • University of Innsbruck - Departement of Microbiology
  • Hermann.Strasser@uibk.ac.at
  • +43 512 507 51233

Group Members

Maria Zottele, MSc
PhD student, Isolation and genotyping of fungi; zottelem@hotmail.com
Mathias Larcher, BSc
MSc student ; Einfluss von Licht auf das Wachstum von entomopathogenen Pilzen angezüchtet auf ausgewählten Feststoffsubstraten; Mathias.Larcher@student.uibk.ac.at
Hannah Embleton, BSc
MSc student; Fungal formulations with a contact mode of action against Scarabs: Propagule types tested in pot and field trials; Hannah.Embleton@student.uibk.ac.at
Christoph Schinagl, Mag. Dr.
Fungal physiology; Christoph.Schinagl@uibk.ac.at
Barbara Pernfuß, Dr.
Senior PostDoc; Risk assessment and registration; Ectomycorrhizae; Barbara.Pernfuss@uibk.ac.at
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