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MINI REVIEW article
Front. Fungal Biol.
Sec. Fungi-Animal Interactions
Volume 6 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/ffunb.2025.1492395
This article is part of the Research Topic Current Perspectives on the Use of Entomopathogenic Fungi for Pest Control View all 4 articles
Research Advances in Ecuador on Use of Entomopathogenic Fungi for Control of the Cattle Tick, Rhipicephalus microplus: the case of Beauveria bassiana sensu lato strain INIAP L3B3
Provisionally accepted
David Adrián Hidalgo 1*
José Luis Ramírez 2*
Mercedes Navarrete 1 Víctor Cevallos 1 Mario Ramos 1 Bill Bravo 3 Klever Carranza 3
Victor Montes 3
Adalberto Perez de Leon 4- 1 National Institute of Agricultural Research (INIAP), Quito, Ecuador
- 2 Crop Bioprotection Research, National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research, Agricultural Research Service (USDA), Peoria, Illinois, United States
- 3 Technical University of Manabi, Portoviejo, Manabí, Ecuador
- 4 San Joaquin Valley Agricultural Sciences Center, Agricultural Research Service (USDA), Parlier, California, United States
This minireview describes the currents efforts undertaken in Ecuador to develop fungal-based biopesticides for the management of acaricide-resistant Rhipicephalus microplus ticks. This minireview details the identification of the entomopathogenic fungi B. bassiana s e n s u l a t o strain INIAP L3B3 with potent acaricidal properties against eggs, larvae and adult ticks. This falls under the scope of the special topic "Current Perspectives on the Use of Entomopathogenic Fungi for Pest Control, covering "fungal-host interactions", "field studies", "Characterization and selection of fungal isolates", " Advances in the production, compatibility, and application of mycoinsecticides and mycoacaricides" and "Discovery and description of new entomopathogenic fungi.
Keywords: Writing -original draft, Writing -review & editing. Bill Bravo: Formal Analysis, investigation, methodology, Writing -review & editing. David Adrián Hidalgo: Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writingoriginal draft, Writing -review & editing. José Luis Ramírez: Writing -original draft
Received: 06 Sep 2024; Accepted: 06 Mar 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Hidalgo, Ramírez, Navarrete, Cevallos, Ramos, Bravo, Carranza, Montes and Perez de Leon. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence:
David Adrián Hidalgo, National Institute of Agricultural Research (INIAP), Quito, Ecuador
José Luis Ramírez, Crop Bioprotection Research, National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research, Agricultural Research Service (USDA), Peoria, 61604, Illinois, United States
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