Purpureocillium lilacinum (Thom) Luangsa-ard, Houbraken, Hywel-Jones & Samson 2011

Description: English: Fig 1. Lifestyles of nematophagous Purpureocillium lilacinum. (A) Microscopic conidiophores and conidia (c) of P. lilacinum. Scale bar = 10 µm. The soil saprophyte (s) P. lilacinum colonizes plant roots as an endophyte (e), and the parasite (p) can occur in nematode eggs in the egg mass (em) generated after the infection with the plant nematode (n). Source: https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.ppat.1005685&type=printable. Author: Gang Wang, Zhiguo Liu, Runmao Lin, Erfeng Li, Zhenchuan Mao, Jian Ling,Yuhong Yang, Wen-Bing Yin, Bingyan Xie, RESEARCH ARTICLEBiosynthesis of Antibiotic Leucinostatins inBio-control FungusPurpureocillium lilacinumand Their Inhibition onPhytophthoraRevealed by Genome Mining. Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agriculture, Beijing, PR China.