title: Screening of liquid media and fermentation of an endophytic Beauveria bassiana strain in a bioreactor.
abstract: A novel approach for biological control of insect pests could be the use of the endophytic entomopathogenic Beauveria bassiana isolate ATP-02. For the utilization of the endophyte as a commercial biocontrol agent, the fungus has to be mass-produced. B. bassiana was raised in shake flask cultures to produce high concentrations of total spores (TS), which include blastospores (BS) and submerged conidiospores (SCS). The highest concentration of 1.33×10(9) TS/mL and the highest yield of 5.32×10(10) TS/g sucrose was obtained in the TKI broth with 5% sugar beet molasses which consists of 50% sucrose as a carbon source. In spite of the lower sugar concentration (2.5%) the amount of TS could be increased up to 11-times in contrast to the cultivation with 5% sucrose. The scale-up to a 2 L stirred tank reactor was carried out at 25°C, 200-600 rpm and 1 vvm at pH 5.5. A TS yield of 5.2×10(10) TS/g sucrose corresponding to a SCS yield of 0.2×10(10) SCS/g sucrose was obtained after 216 h. With regards to the culture medium the cost of 10(12) TS amounts to 0.24 €. Plutella xylostella larvae, which were fed with oilseed rape leaves treated with spores from fermentation resulted in 77 ± 5% mortality. Moreover, spores from submerged cultivation were able to colonize oilseed rape leaves via leaf application. This is the first report of fermentation of an endophytic B. bassiana strain in a low-cost culture medium to very high yields of TS.
authors.affiliation: Department of Engineering and Mathematics, University of Applied Sciences, Wilhelm-Bertelsmann-Str. 10, Bielefeld 33602, Germany.
authors.forename: Rieke
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Lohse
authors.affiliation: Department of Engineering and Mathematics, University of Applied Sciences, Wilhelm-Bertelsmann-Str. 10, Bielefeld 33602, Germany.
authors.forename: Desiree
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Jakobs-Schönwandt
authors.affiliation: Department of Engineering and Mathematics, University of Applied Sciences, Wilhelm-Bertelsmann-Str. 10, Bielefeld 33602, Germany.
authors.forename: Anant V
authors.initials: AV
authors.lastname: Patel
keywords: Beauveria bassiana; Biological control; Blastospores; Endophyte; Fermentation; Submerged conidiospores; Submerged culture