Isolation, İdentification
and Characterization of
Biotechnologically
İmportant Bacteria From Microflora of
Dryocosmus kuriphilus
Yasumatsu(Hymenoptera: Cynipidae)
Nurcan Albayrak Iskendera Omer Faruk Algurb Yaşar Aksuc Ayşegül Sarald
aDepartment of
Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, Artvin Coruh University, Artvin, Turkey;
bDepartment of
Biology, Faculty of Science, Atatürk University, Erzurum, Turkey;
cArtvin Regional
Forestry Management, Artvin, Turkey;
dDepartment of
Nutrition and Dietetics, Faculty of Health Sciences, Artvin Coruh University,
Artvin, Turkey
Abstract
The chestnut gall wasp, Dryocosmus kuriphilus Yasumatsu
(Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) is one of the most important insect pests of chestnut.
The aim of this study was to isolate and characterize bacteria from D. kuriphilus to obtain new microbial
agents for both biological control and other biotechnological applications. D. kuriphilus larvae were collected from
chestnut fields located in Bursa and Yalova provinces of Marmara Region of
Turkey during May–July 2014. Four bacterial isolates were obtained from D. kuriphilus. According to their
morphological, biochemical and molecular properties, these isolates were
identified as Staphylococcus
saprophyticus (Dk1), Paenibacillus
sp. (Dk2), Pseudomonas flourescens
(Dk3) and Paenibacillus sp. (Dk4). To
the best of our knowledge, this is the first study on the bacterial flora of D. kuriphilus. In our study, the
potential of these isolates as a biological control agent against different
hazardous pests and other possible biotechnological applications of importance
were discussed under the light of literature.
Keywords: Dryocosmus
kuriphilus; chestnut; pest;
entomopathogenic bacteria; biotechnologically important bacteria
Yayın yeri: Albayrak, İskender, N.; Algur Faruk,Ö.; Aksu, Y.;
Saral,A.; Isolation,
identification and characterization of biotechnologically important bacteria
from microflora of Dryocosmus kuriphilus
Yasumatsu (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae). Biotechnology & Biotechnological
Equipment. The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor
& Francis Group 2017 ISSN: 1310-2818 (Print) 1314-3530 (Online) Journal
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