Hi everyone,
Is it possible to culture some of the microbes using insect excrement as the culture media. Some microbes can normally grow on insect excrement of aphids and cicadas deposited on the leaves and I am wondering if this is possible to do under controlled conditions. Thanks.
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Hi, Dear Dr. Pal
Some viruses require to living environment for survive, so some insects have survived, and when insect feed on plants , they enter to the plant and cause damage to the plant. this discussion very
This is a debate very broad in knowledge of plant pathology.
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Dear Dr. Pal; How delightful to speak to someone else who cultures from frass. It depends on whether the organisms you are interested in actually grow in frass, or are simply able to survive passage through the insect gut. I work with snails, and there are some pathogens whose spore germination is stimulated by passage through the snail gut; these organisms do not grow in the excrement itself, however. I take the infested snail frass and plate it on suitable media.
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