date:Jan 28, 2013
expensive nitrogen sources, including soybean flour or cottonseed meal, reduces the cost to 30 to 50 cents a pound.
Conidia have long been the spores of choice for biopesticide uses. But the researchers showed that other fungal cells can be just as effective, including blastospores and microsclerotia. The latter are clumps of pigmented fibers from which conidia can form. In laboratory tests, for example, conidia resulting from soil treatments of microsclerotia from the fungus M. brunneum killed