Molecular-genetic evidence of aphid pathogen Pandora kondoiensis infection in Sitobion avenae collected in Denmark

ABSTRACT

Entomophthoralean-specific primers were used to estimate the occurrence of entomophthoralean species in the cereal aphid Sitobion avenae in Denmark. Sequencing documented for the first time the presence of Pandora kondoiensis in Denmark. Specific primers were designed and P. kondoiensis was identified on 12% of infested straws sampled in 2012.

KEYWORDS:

• Entomophthorales
• entomopathogenic fungi
• Pandora
• Sitobion avenae

Acknowledgements

We would like to thank Louise Lee Munk Larsen for technical assistance and Erin Morris, Anja Amtoft Wynns and Jørgen Eilenberg for comments and suggestions.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

ORCID

A. B. Jensen http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2044-2274

Additional information

Funding

This work was supported by the Danish National Research Foundation (DNRF57), Innovation Fund Denmark (09-063108/DSF and 0603-00486B).