虫生真菌研究与应用的发展与机遇——2012年虫生真菌专刊序言

Advances and challenges in investigation and application of entompathogenic fungi——Preface to the 2012 special issue on entomopathogenic fungi

我国从事虫生真菌基础及应用研究的人员众多,各方面均取得了重要的研究成果。2012年"虫生真菌专刊"收集了国内关于虫生真菌资源、基因克隆及活性成分代谢等方面的最新研究进展。进一步的基础研究,应加强致病基因功能和真菌-昆虫分子相互作用等研究,以提高真菌杀虫剂或药用虫生真菌的应用效率。

Many Chinese mycologists are involved in basic and applied studies of different entomopathogenic fungi and have been making great achievements. In this special issue on entomopathogenic fungi, one review and different research papers were published including the resource investigations, gene cloning and the analysis of bioactive metabolites of different entomopathogenic fungi. To improve the application efficacies of mycoinsecticides and medicinal insect fungi, further studies are still required to investigate the virulence gene functions and molecular interactions between fungi and insects etc.