CN109777743B

CN109777743B - Entomogenous fungus strain SB009 with high pathogenic capability to bemisia tabaci and application thereof

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Publication number: CN109777743B
Application number: CN201910223909.6A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 杨波; 吴建辉; 肖卡特·阿里; 王兴民; 邱宝利
Original assignee: South China Agricultural University
Current assignee: South China Agricultural University
Priority date: 2019-03-22
Filing date: 2019-03-22
Publication date: 2020-11-24
Anticipated expiration: 2039-03-22
Also published as: CN109777743A

Abstract

The invention relates to the field of biological control, in particular to an excellent strain which has pathogenicity to bemisia tabaci, namely beauveria bassiana (Beauveria bassiana (Vuillem)Beauveria bassiana) The strain SB009, deposited in the Guangdong province culture Collection of microorganisms (GDMCC), with the accession number of GDMCC NO: 60588. According to the invention, through a reasonable experimental scheme and by combining comprehensive consideration of indexes of excellent strain screening, strains with excellent pathogenicity to bemisia tabaci are screened, and the strains with the pathogenicity more stable than other test strains have great potential for biological control of bemisia tabaci.

Description

Entomogenous fungus strain SB009 with high pathogenic capability to bemisia tabaci and application thereof

Technical Field

The invention relates to the field of plant protection, in particular to the field of biological control, and especially relates to biological control of bemisia tabaci.

Background

Chemical pesticides play a great role in pest control, and the usage amount and yield of pesticides in China are the first place in the world for a long time. However, according to statistics, the effective utilization rate of global pesticides is less than 30%, and the annual chemical pesticide use area of China is 2.8 hundred million hm²Above, the application amount reaches 50-60 ten thousand tons, about 80% of chemical pesticide directly enters the environment (Liliang, Zhang Ying, Sun Hui Ying, etc.. pesticide hazard and green plant protection technology discussion [ J]Hubei plant protection, 2018, (4): 63-64). With the long-term use of a large amount of chemical pesticides, the problems of pest Resistance (Resistance), pesticide Residue (Residue), pest Resurgence (Resurgence) and environmental pollution are more and more serious. Therefore, the traditional control mode mainly using chemical pesticides is changed, and the plant protection policy of 'control mainly and comprehensively' is implemented, and the agricultural control is mainly adhered to, and the biological control is adhered toThe sustainable healthy development of the comprehensive control of pests by combining other control measures has very important significance (the biological control research progress of the entomogenous fungi of Yangyuan, Dukaikang, Shimingwang [ J)]The proceedings of the Henan academy of science and technology, 2011,39(1): 34-37).

Entomogenous fungi are well known for their advantages of many species, safety, effectiveness, long application period, no harm to natural enemies, no resistance generation, rapid mass production, and the like, and have incomparable repeated infectivity and production convenience in biological control. There are over 100 genera and 800 entomogenous fungi described in the literature, and known entomogenous fungi mainly include cordyceps fungi, predatory fungi and parasitic nematode fungi, and several new species are continuously discovered. About 405 species have been reported in China, among which 215 species of insect-parasitic fungi (Li Yue, Jiang Chunji, Zhaoyying, etc.. application of entomogenous fungi in forestry pest biological control [ J ]. plant protection, 2016,10(20): 10-24). Entomogenous fungi are important pathogenic bacteria of crop pests and are widely distributed in the nature, according to survey, about 60 percent of wild overwintering insect diseases are caused by fungi, the entomogenous fungi are really important factors for natural control of insect population and important materials for pest control, have important positions in various agriculture and forestry ecosystems, play an indispensable role in maintaining the balance of the ecosystems, and are important components of an IPM system (molecular identification of locust-preventing strains of Qinli Metarrhizium anisopliae and Beauveria bassiana and indoor pathogenicity determination [ D ]. Anhui university of agriculture, 2013).

The entomogenous fungi has a hundred-year research history, and particularly, the basic research of the entomogenous fungi in Europe and America is deeper and wider. In 1843, Bassi proves that Beauveria bassiana (Beauveria bassiana) can cause silkworm diseases to be popular in Law, Italy and other countries, the microbial pathogenic theory of insect diseases is initiated, the foundation of insect pathology is laid, and the research of entomogenous fungi is really started; metarhizium anisopliae (Metarhizium anisopliae) is applied to prevent and control Austria aurea (Anasplaria australis) in 1879-1880, and a sequential screen of fungi for preventing and controlling pests is uncovered; forbse et al applied Beauveria bassiana in the United states to control the stinkbug on a larger scale; in the 20-30 s of the 19 th century, Metalnikvo, Wallenger et al, USA were very interested in the control of corn borer (Ostrinia nubilalis) by Beauveria bassiana, Aspergillus flavus and Metarhizium anisopliae; lefebver introduces beauveria bassiana infecting corn borers from northeast of China to carry out indoor and field experiments, and makes progress (the current situation of application of Lizengzhi entomogenous fungi in pest control [ J ]. Anhui college of agriculture, 1987, (2): 59-66); chinese applied Beauveria bassiana large-scale soybean pod borers and corn borers from the 50 s of the 20 th century, and remarkable effects are achieved; the entomogenous fungi are continuously popularized, but are also in a decline state, the organophosphorus pesticide impacts on the entomogenous fungi in 1956, and various biological control researches are laid aside, wherein the entomogenous fungi are included; two fungus culture departments in Japan are forced to be closed, and when DDT abuse causes a series of problems of ecological imbalance, natural enemy injury, drug resistance of pests, environmental destruction, human health and the like; in addition, the cotton planting industry in the americas also has a huge loss of economic benefits due to the abuse of pesticides and the enhancement of pest resistance, so that the study of entomogenous fungi returns to the field of view of the public again (lie enhancement, development of entomomycology [ C ]. research and application of entomogenous fungi in china, 1996); in the 70 s of the 20 th century, the beauveria bassiana is successfully applied to prevent and control pine caterpillars. China has the biggest entomogenous fungi research team in the world; xuqingfeng professor, li zhi professor, fan meizhen professor and chenzhu an professor play an important role in promoting Chinese entomogenous fungi resources and application research. With the success of biological control by using entomogenous fungi in Russia, America, Japan and other countries, the study of entomogenous fungi is not only beneficial to pest control, but also has very important functions and meanings in production, life and environmental protection of people.

Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius) belongs to the genus Bemisia (Aleynodidae) of Bemisia hemiptera (Homoptera) Bemisia, is one of the most important agricultural pests in the world of tropical, subtropical and adjacent temperate regions, and wide host range, and can cause damage to crops by direct stinging and effective transmission of viruses (Wuqianxing, Liu Yong, Zhang Yong et al. Bemisia tabaci commonly used drug resistance monitoring research [ J ]. plant protection, 2018,2(1): 119-120). Since the middle and late 90 s of the 20 th century, the insect gradually becomes an important agricultural pest in China. The bemisia tabaci is divided into different biotypes, wherein the type B bemisia tabaci is wide in damage range and serious in damage degree. The imagoes and nymphs of the plants directly suck plant juice through thorns, so that the nutrition of the plants is lacked, and normal physiological activities are influenced. In addition, honeydew is often secreted by adults and nymphs to induce coal contamination, and when the population density is high, the leaves are black, which seriously affects photosynthesis and appearance quality of cash crops; adults are highly omnivorous, infest more than 1000 plants, and transmit more than 300 viruses from the genera phaseolus (Begomovirus), rhabdovirus (crinavirus), carnation latent virus (caravivus), tomado (Torradovirus) and sweet potato virus (Ipomovirus). In the last 10 years, the Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl Virus (TYLCV) of the family has the greatest harm to agriculture in China. When the cotton is damaged, the front of the leaves is stained, yellow spots are formed when the density of insect mouths is high, and the buds and bolls fall off when the density is serious, so that the cotton yield and the fiber quality are influenced.

The bemisia tabaci nymphs have waxy shells, are usually fixedly adsorbed on the surfaces of crops, and only damage the crops by piercing and sucking mouthparts, so that the control difficulty is increased (Liu summons, semen raphani, screening of entomogenous fungi with high pathogenicity to bemisia tabaci [ J ]. Chinese vegetables, 2014,1(3): 37-40); since 2000, the major outbreaks and the continuously expanded and disaster-stricken distribution range in China caused significant losses to important economic crops (Chu D, Wan F H, Zhang Y J, et al. Change in the biological composition of Bemis tab in Shandong Provisions of China from 2005 to 2008[ J ]. Environmental enhancement, 2010,39(3):1028 and 1036). Chemical pesticides usually used for controlling bemisia tabaci are difficult to permeate into the body of the bemisia tabaci, and the pesticide dosage is increased for achieving the control effect, so that the cost is increased, the environment is polluted, and even the pesticide resistance to pests is generated. Therefore, it is particularly important to develop an effective alternative technology for controlling bemisia tabaci.

The entomopathogenic fungi not only have remarkable epidemic potential, are safe to human, livestock and environment, are not easy to generate resistance to pests, but also have production convenience, and have great potential for preventing and treating bemisia tabaci by applying the entomopathogenic fungi. Paecilomyces fumosoroseus has a high infection rate on nymphs, particularly low-age nymphs, can spread epidemic in adults under a proper environment and is commonly used for controlling bemisia tabaci. According to related reports, the entomogenous fungi has good effect on controlling Bemisia tabaci nymphs on tomatoes. In addition, beauveria bassiana also has great control potential on Bemisia tabaci nymphs, particularly young nymphs, and the population density of the Bemisia tabaci is adjusted by biological control means such as entomogenous fungi to control the harm of the Bemisia tabaci, so that the beauveria bassiana has attracted the interest of a plurality of researchers. However, to find the beauveria bassiana with high toxicity to bemisia tabaci needs to collect a large amount of beauveria bassiana and screen the beauveria bassiana.

Disclosure of Invention

In order to obtain an excellent strain with the biological control effect on Bemisia tabaci, 29 strains collected at the early stage are preliminarily determined to be the strains of Beauveria bassiana, and the toxicity of the Bemisia tabaci on 2-instar nymphs of Bemisia tabaci is measured by a leaf dipping method, so that a plurality of excellent strains causing diseases to the Bemisia tabaci nymphs are obtained.

Experiments show that the pathogenicity of different genera or the same strain to bemisia tabaci can be different, so that the bemisia tabaci has different pathogenic effects. According to the experimental result of the invention, the pathogenicity is an important index for measuring the biological control potential of the fungus strain, the growth rate of colony or hypha is another important evaluation index for evaluating the excellent entomopathogenic fungus, and the strain SB009 is 10⁷spore/mL and 10⁸The pathogenicity of the strain SB009 is more stable than that of other test strains, and the strain SB009 is an excellent strain causing the disease of the Bemisia tabaci nymphs in consideration of the colony growth rate of the strain.

The strain is separated from soil under the crinum asiaticum trees in the Qingyang area of the city, Sichuan province, and is characterized in that the diameter of a bacterial colony is 56.33mm, the middle of the bacterial colony is fluffy, the edge of the bacterial colony is powdery, the surface of the bacterial colony is white, the back of the bacterial colony is orange, and a small amount of wrinkles are formed on a PDA (personal digital assistant) plate at 25 ℃ for 10 days. The spores are oval and nearly spherical, and have hypha length of 2.095 μm and width of 1.524 μm. The identification was further verified by molecular biology, and it belongs to Beauveria bassiana (Beauveria bassiana).

Further, the invention also provides application of the SB009 strain in biological control of bemisia tabaci.

In specific implementation, the strain can be cultured to prepare spore liquid or a microbial inoculum containing spores. Preferably, the spore concentration of the strain at the time of administration is 10⁷spore/mL to 10⁹spores/mL, most preferably 10⁸spores/mL.

Further, the microbial inoculum is applied at the time of predicting the occurrence or the initial occurrence of bemisia tabaci.

According to the invention, through a reasonable experimental scheme and by combining comprehensive consideration of indexes of excellent strain screening, the strain SB009, 10 with excellent pathogenicity to bemisia tabaci is screened⁸The toxicity of the strain to Bemisia tabaci reaches 82.93% under spore/mL, and the pathogenicity of the strain is more stable than that of other test strains (at 10%⁷The toxicity to bemisia tabaci is higher under spore/mL), and the method has larger potential for biological control of bemisia tabaci.

Wherein the strain SB009, deposited in Guangdong province microbial culture Collection (GDMCC) at 2019, 2/21, with the accession number of GDMCC NO: 60588. The strain SP433 was deposited in Guangdong province culture Collection of microorganisms (GDMCC) at 21.2.2019, and the deposition number is GDMCC NO: 60589.

Drawings

FIG. 1SB009 colony morphology

Note that the left and right panels are front and back panels of the SB009 colony

FIG. 2SB009 spore morphology map

FIG. 3 electrophoresis of PCR amplification products in molecular identification

FIG. 4 molecular systems Tree

Detailed Description

The following description is given by way of development and specific embodiments of the present invention, and is not intended to limit the invention thereto.

1 test host plant

"Shandong Cotton lapping No. 32" of cotton was purchased from the Weichafang City seed management station in Shandong province. Under natural conditions, cotton seeds are potted in nutrient soil which is sterilized by high pressure, cotton seedlings are placed in a clean insect culture cage (60 multiplied by 60cm) during the growth period, and the cotton seedlings are used for experiments when the seedlings grow to 6-8 leaf periods.

2 test insects

Type B bemisia tabaci populations were collected from southern China university of agriculture teaching practice farms in 2005, and the host plant was tomato. After being picked, the cotton is isolated and raised in the cotton host and subcultured in the engineering research center of the department of biological control education. The breeding conditions include temperature (27 + -1) deg.C, light period L14: D10, and relative humidity (75 + -5)%.

3 Beauveria bassiana for screening

The total 29 entomogenous fungi selected in the experiment are all strains preserved in the engineering research center of the department of biological control and education of southern China university. The detailed information is shown in the table below.

TABLE 1 test strains

4 Experimental methods

4.1 preparation of spore suspension solution

Culturing at 26 + -1 deg.C on PDA plate for 7 days, eluting conidia of entomogenous fungi with 0.05% Tween-80 sterile water, stirring with magnetic stirrer, shaking at 180rpm in shaking table at 25 deg.C for 25min, filtering with double-layer mirror paper, counting with blood counting plate, measuring mother liquor concentration, and making into 1 × 10⁷spore/mL and 1X 10⁸spores/mL of spore suspension.

4.2 determination of virulence of entomogenous fungi on 2-instar nymphs of Bemisia tabaci

Soaking the back of cotton leaf with 2-year-old nymphs of bemisia tabaci in the prepared spore suspension for 30s, taking out, naturally airing the leaf, placing the leaf with the back facing upwards in an agar culture medium, sealing with a preservative film, puncturing a hole for ventilation, placing a culture dish obliquely in an artificial climate box under the feeding conditions of temperature (27 +/-1) DEG C, photoperiod L14: D10 and relative humidity (75 +/-5)%. Sterile water 0.05% tween-80 was used as a blank. Each treatment was repeated 4 times with 100 nymphs each. The mortality was calculated by examining the mortality of Bemisia tabaci at 3d, 5d and 7d, respectively, and recording the number of deaths. 4.3 data processing

And the data processing and statistical analysis adopt SPSS17.0, Statistix 8 and Excel software to carry out significance test by a Duncan method.

5 results and analysis

The experimental result shows that the pathogenicity of 29 entomogenous fungi at the same concentration is different, and the death rate of nymphs increases along with the increase of the treatment time; the lethality of the strain to 2-year nymphs of bemisia tabaci all increased with the increase of the spore concentration at different concentrations at the same time. Specific results are shown in tables 2 and 3.

TABLE 21X 10⁷Mortality of spore suspension/mL on Bemisia tabaci 2-instar nymphs (%)

Note that different lower case letters in the same column indicate significant pathogenicity differences between different strains (P < 0.05) by Duncan test

TABLE 31X 10⁸Mortality of spore suspension/mL on Bemisia tabaci 2-instar nymphs (%)

Wherein the spore suspension has a concentration of 1 × 10⁸At spore/ml (table 2), the lethality of each strain shows significant difference in the pre-treatment period (3d), the lethality of the strains varies from 2.13% to 29.07%, the lethality of the strains SP665, SB015, SB009 and SB039 is more than 25%, the lethality is less than half of 10%, and the lethality of the strain SP031 is the lowest and is only 2.13%; the mortality rate among strains is highest after treatment for 5dThe difference can be 4 times, the strains have obvious difference, the fatality rate of the strains SB015, SB063, SP016, SP433, SB009, SB036 and SB674 reaches more than 50%, the highest fatality rate of the strain SB015 is 61.76%, the fatality rate of the strains SB006, SB050, SB004 and SP031 is less than 30%, and the fatality rate of the strain SP031 is only 13.07%; the mortality rate of the control group is only 13.3 percent and is lower after treatment for 7d, the difference of the mortality rates of the strains is reduced, and the mortality rate of the 27 strains is 59.5-82.93 percent. The lethality of the strains SP433, SB009, SB050, SB036 and SB043 reaches more than 80%, the lethality of the strain SP433 is the highest, 87.37% and 82.93% after SB009, which shows that the 5 entomogenous fungi have strong lethal effect on bemisia tabaci and have good prevention and control potential, and belong to potential excellent biocontrol bacteria.

However, it can be seen from tables 2 and 3 that the same strain has a certain control effect on Bemisia tabaci at different concentrations, and the lethality increases to different extents with the increase of the concentration, while the strains SB039, SB063, SP031, SP670, SB671 and SB035 have a concentration of 1 × 10⁷Spore/ml and 1X 10⁸Similar lethality is obtained after the Bemisia tabaci nymphs are treated for 7d under spore/ml, which shows that if the strains are selected to prevent and treat the Bemisia tabaci, a good effect can be achieved at low concentration; the strains SB043, SB050 and SB036 have spore concentration of 1 × 10⁷At spore/ml, the pathogenicity is significantly weaker than that of other test strains, and the concentration is 10⁸The pathogenicity is stronger than that of other strains when spores are in a/ml state, which shows that the strains have a larger relation with the spore concentration in the environment in the aspect of pest control. Strains SB039, SP433, SB063, SB009, SB674, SP670 had spore concentrations of 1X 10⁷The lethality is above 65% at spore/ml, and the spore concentration of strains SP433, SB009, SB050, SB036 and SB043 is 1 × 10⁸The lethality rate reaches more than 80% at spore/ml, and simultaneously, the strains SB009 and SP433 have strong pathogenicity and better stability than other test strains.

The control group is 0.05 percent of tween-80 for treating the nymphs of the bemisia tabaci, and the lethality rate is very low; when the concentration is 10⁸When the spore/mL spore suspension is used for treating the nymphs of the bemisia tabaci, the pathogenicity of each strain is different, and the pathogenic knockdown time is different. Some areAlthough the fungi belong to the same genus or even the same species, the pathogenicity of the strains can be different; some strains show larger difference in the killing time of the bemisia tabaci nymphs, and some short-time effects are not ideal, but the mortality rate is increased along with the extension of the infection time, and the difference between the mortality rate of some strains and the knockdown time is not large, so that the reasonable selection of the using time is required in combination with the occurrence condition of pests during the pest control; in addition, the spore concentration is also an important factor influencing the pathogenicity, the accumulated mortality of some strains to the Bemisia tabaci nymphs is gradually increased along with the increase of the spore concentration, and the mortality of some strains is not greatly different from the tested concentration, so that the same infection effect can be achieved by selecting low concentration. The growth rate of colonies or hyphae is an important evaluation index for evaluating the excellent entomopathogenic fungi by combining the screening indexes of the excellent strains, and the pathogenicity is an important index for measuring the biological control potential of the strains of the fungi.

5 Strain SB009 further verification of the results of the identification

(1) Collection of Strain SB009

The strain SB009 was originally isolated from the soil under the Crinum crinum trees in the Qingyang district of the city, Sichuan province in 2007 and was a native strain in China.

And (3) collecting a soil sample, taking 100g of soil 10-15 cm below surface soil during sampling, packaging the soil sample by using a plastic bag, and then bringing the soil sample back to a laboratory for treatment. Sieving a soil sample to remove stone grains and impurities, suspending 10g of clean soil in 90mL of 0.1% Tween 80 solution, shaking uniformly, standing for 15min, diluting 2mL of supernatant in 8mL of 0.05% Tween 80, and preparing into a soil suspension. Inoculating 0.1mL of soil suspension on a Bengal red agar medium plate, uniformly pushing the suspension below the surface of the plate by using a triangular glass scraper, culturing for 3-7 days at 25 ℃, then cutting out a single colony by using an inoculating loop, inoculating on a PDA plate, and continuously culturing to obtain the beauveria bassiana strain SB 009. The cut mycelium blocks were transplanted on PDA slant, cultured continuously, and stored in a refrigerator at 4 ℃.

(2) Morphological identification

Strain SB009 was made on PDA plates at 25 ℃ for 10 days with a colony diameter of 56.33mm, with a velvet-like center of the colony, powdery edge, white surface, orange back, with small wrinkles (FIG. 1). The spores were oval and nearly spherical, and had hyphae 2.095 μm long and 1.524 μm wide (FIG. 2).

(3) Molecular biological identification

The molecular biology identification is carried out on 29 strains.

The DNA is extracted by a CTAB method, which comprises the following steps:

(a) after culturing the beauveria bassiana strain SB009 on a PDA plate for one week, carefully scraping the mycelium into a mortar, adding liquid nitrogen, quickly and fully grinding;

(b) rapidly transferring a proper amount of ground mycelium into a centrifuge tube, adding 300 mu L of DNA extract lysate preheated at 65 ℃, fully and uniformly mixing, adding chloroform/isoamylol (24/1) mixed solution with the same volume, uniformly mixing, carrying out water bath at 65 ℃ for 1h, slightly shaking for about 10min, and centrifuging at 12000rpm for 5min at normal temperature;

(c) slowly sucking the supernatant into another new centrifuge tube, slowly adding chloroform/isoamylol (24/1) mixed solution with the same volume for re-extraction, and centrifuging at 12000rpm for 5min at normal temperature;

(d) slowly sucking the supernatant into another new centrifuge tube, adding 1/10 volumes of sodium acetate and equal volume of precooled isopropanol, and standing at room temperature for 15 min;

(e) adding 70% ethanol, washing and precipitating for 2 times;

(f) the liquid transferring gun is tightly attached to the pipe wall to slowly suck out ethanol, and the liquid transferring gun is placed in an ultra-clean workbench to be dried;

(g) the resulting precipitate was dissolved in 50. mu.L of TE;

(h) detecting with 1% agarose gel electrophoresis, and storing the rest extract at-20 deg.C.

The primers used for PCR of fungal DNA are universal primers for the Bloc gene: B5.1F: 5'-cgacccggccaactactttga-3' and B3.1R: 5'-gtcttccagtaccactacgcc-3' are provided. Amplification conditions: pre-denaturation at 94 ℃ for 3 min; denaturation at 94 ℃ for 30s, annealing at 55 ℃ for 30s, and extension at 72 ℃ for 45s for 35 cycles; extension at 72 ℃ for 10 min.

The 50 μ L reaction was as follows:

and (3) carrying out 1% agarose gel electrophoresis (containing EB) on the PCR product, wherein the buffer solution is 1 XTAE, the voltage is 150V, the current is 220mA, and Marker DL2000 is used as a molecular weight standard reference substance, and after the electrophoresis is finished, detecting on a gel imager and photographing for recording.

The specific PCR product was sequenced by Shanghai Meiji Biopharmaceutical science and technology Co. Sequence alignment and development tree construction: the sequencing results were searched for related sequences with higher homology using BLAST, and sequence alignment and multiple sequence alignment were performed using Cluster W in MEGA5.1 software. And constructing a Neighbour-join (NJ) phylogenetic tree in the software.

Identification results

(1) As shown in FIG. 3, the electrophoretic band of each lane is clear, and the gene fragment of the strain can be accurately determined to be about 1500bp according to the migration distance of the PCR product, wherein only the strains numbered 1 to 18 are shown, and the strain numbered 4 is SB 009.

(2) The Bloc sequence of the genotype of the strain obtained was combined with the related sequences of 3 Beauveria bassiana strains downloaded from GenBank to construct a molecular phylogenetic tree, and as a result, the SB009 strain belongs to Beauveria bassiana, which is Beauveria bassiana, as shown in FIG. 4.

The result of the comprehensive morphological characteristics and physiological and biochemical characteristics identification shows that the strain belongs to the beauveria bassiana, is named as SB009, is preserved in Guangdong province microbial culture collection (GDMCC) in 2019, 2 and 21 months, has the preservation number of GDMCC NO:60588, and has the preservation address of Guangzhou China.

Claims

1. An excellent strain pathogenic to Bemisia tabaci is Beauveria bassiana (Vuilla) VuilleminBeauveria bassiana) The strain SB009, deposited in Guangdong province microorganism culture Collection with the accession number GDMCC NO: 60588.

2. The use of the strain of claim 1 for controlling bemisia tabaci.

3. The use according to claim 2, wherein the strain is cultured to produce a spore liquid or a spore-containing microbial inoculum.

4. Use according to claim 2 or 3, wherein the strain is administered with a spore concentration of 10⁷spore/mL to 10⁹spores/mL.

5. Use according to claim 2 or 3, wherein the strain is administered with a spore concentration of 10⁸spores/mL.

6. The use as claimed in claim 2 or claim 3 wherein the bacterial agent is administered at a time when or early in the prediction of the onset of bemisia tabaci.