Biological control & Registration of fungi

Working Group of Hermann Strasser

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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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- 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

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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MELOBEAUMON – Melolontha spp. and Beauveria brongniartii monitoring in cockchafer infested areas in North and East Tyrol.

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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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People

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