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doi:10.1186/s40694-023-00159-w...

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Vrabl, Pamela Zottele, Maria Colleselli, Lucia Schinagl, Christoph Walter Mayerhofer, Laura Siewert, Bianka Strasser, Hermann
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en
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BioMed Central

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Mycology

Year

2023

listing date

5/31/2023

Keywords
entomopathogenic fungi fungal photobiology light box incubator photo-illumination setup visible light led-technique surface culture extrolite conidia morphology µw brunneum cm^-2 green blue beauveria brongniartii
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Abstract

Due to their versatile way of life as saprophytes, endophytes, and entomopathogens, fungi of the genera Metarhizium and Beauveria are exposed to varying illumination conditions in their natural habitats, which makes a thorough adaptation to light very likely.

While the few available studies for these genera support this assumption, research in this field is still in its infancy and the data material restricted to only a few fungal species.

Thus, the aim of this work was to explore how light influences growth, conidial production and secondary metabolite formation of two industrial relevant strains of M. brunneum (MA 43, formerly M. anisopliae var. anisopliae BIPESCO 5/F52) and B. brongniartii (BIPESCO 2).

To achieve this, we constructed an easily adjustable illumination device for highly standardized photophysiological studies of fungi on Petri dishes, the so-called LIGHT BOX.

With the aid of this device, M. brunneum and B. brongniartii were grown on S4G or S2G agar at 25 °C for 14 days either in complete darkness or under constant illumination with red light (λ_peak = 635 nm), green light (λ_peak = 519 nm) or blue light (λ_peak = 452 nm).

In addition, for each wavelength the effect of different illumination intensities was tested, i.e., intensities of red light ranging from 22.1 ± 0.1 to 136.5 ± 0.3 µW cm^-2, green light from 16.5 ± 0.1 to 96.2 ± 0.1 µW cm^-2, and blue light from 56.1 ± 0.2 to 188.9 ± 0.6 µW cm^-2.

Both fungi strongly responded in terms of growth, conidial production, pigmentation and morphology to changes in the wavelength and irradiation intensity.

The wavelength-dependent production of the well-known secondary metabolite oosporein which is secreted by the genus Beauveria in particular, was also increased under green and blue light exposure.

The established LIGHT BOX system allows not only to optimize conidial production yields with these biotechnologically relevant fungi, but also allows the photobiological exploration of other fungi.

Vrabl, Pamela,Zottele, Maria,Colleselli, Lucia,Schinagl, Christoph Walter,Mayerhofer, Laura,Siewert, Bianka,Strasser, Hermann, 2023, Light in the box—photobiological examination chamber with light trap ventilation system for studying fungal surface cultures illustrated with Metarhizium brunneum and Beauveria brongniartii, BioMed Central

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