Christopher A Wozniak

US Patent:

59550716, Sep 21, 1999

Filed:

Jul 21, 1998

Appl. No.:

9/120347

Inventors:

Christopher A. Wozniak - Burtonsville MD

Assignee:

The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of
Agriculture - Washington DC

International Classification:

A01N 6300
C12N 120

US Classification:

424 935

Abstract:

A new species of Syngliocladium, designated as S. tetanopsis Hodge, Humber and Wozniak, has been discovered which is pathogenic to the sugarbeet root maggot, Tetanops myopaeformis Roder. Spore formulations of this entomopathogen are useful for inciting a fatal mycoses in the sugarbeet root maggot. This species represents the only confirmed natural pathogen of this dipteran insect.