Beauveria Vuill.

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Beauveria Vuill. , Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France 59: 40 (1912)

Index Fungorum number: IF 7346

Type species: Beauveria bassiana (Bals.-Criv.) Vuill., Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France 59: 40 (1912)

Notes: Beauveria was first described by Balsamo-Crivelli (1835) as Botrytis bassiana , but later the name was changed to Beauveria bassiana , and it was assigned as the type species of new independent genus Beauveria in Cordycipitaceae , Hypocreales ( Paul Vuillemin 1912) . This genus was characterized asexually by having globose bases and extended denticulate rachis, unicellular, ball-like, holoblastic conidia (<3.5 μm diam) formed on globose to flaskshaped phialide conidiogenous cells ( Costa et al. 2011, Chen et al. 2013), whereas the sexual morphs produce solitary, paired or gregarious stromata, cylindrical to clavate, yellowish to orange, cylindrical and filiform ascospores ( Kepler et al. 2017). Beauveria bassiana has been reported as a pathogen of silkworms as early as 900 AD in Japan, and it was documented that the pathogen resulted in serious silkworm disease in Italy and France around 1800 ( Samson et al. 2013). However, some Beauveria spp. also were reported as endophytes or saprobes associated with various plants ( Vega et al. 2008, Moonjely et al. 2016, Imoulana et al. 2017, Chen et al. 2018, Khonsanit et al. 2020). Beauveria is a widespread anamorphic genus of entomopathogenic fungi, which includes ecologically and economically important species, for example, B. bassiana is widely utilized as a biological pest control agent in agriculture ( Zimmermann 2007, Khonsanit et al. 2020).