Phylogenetic characterization of entomopathogenic fungi from Uzbekistan

As part of a wider study of the biocontrol potential of entomopathogenic fungi from Central Asia, the pathogenicity of a number of insect-derived fungal isolates from Uzbekistan was assessed and its previous morphological assignment to the genera Beauveria, Metarhizium, Fusarium, Trichoderma, Paecilomyces, or Aspergillus re-evalutaed and in most cases confirmed molecularly by a phylogenetic analysis based of internal transcribed spacer (ITS1) sequences.