Entomopathogenic fungal strains, compositions, and methods and compositions of producing and using the strains for reducing overall insect damage.

Provided is a Schizochytrium limacinum strain, a building method therefor and an application thereof. The strain disclosed is classified and named as Schizochytrium sp. HX-RS, and the preservation number is CCTCC NO: M2017046. An acyltransferase functional domain originating from Shewanella PKS enzyme is adopted instead of an acyltransferase functional domain originating from Schizochytrium sp. PKS enzyme, and the strain is obtained by performing flat panel screening and acclimation screening with a high rotation seed and a low temperature.

Provided is a culture product having a mild rose aroma and suitable for imparting the rose aroma to a cosmetic product, a food or a drink, a pharmaceutical product, and the like. A culture product, which is obtained by fermenting a lactic acid bacterium culture product in a medium containing a milk component with Kluyveromyces marxianus, and comprises isoamyl alcohol in an amount of 0.3 to 5 parts by mass with respect to 1 part by mass of phenylethyl acetate.

Described is an isolated strain of the fungus Colonostachys rosea termed BVT Cr-7 useful as a biological control agent for the treatment of plants. The isolated strain, formulations comprising said strain and/or spores derived from said strain may be applied to plants or plant materials in order to improve plant yield, to improve plant growth, or for the treatment or prevention of diseases or pathogens in the plant.

It is intended to provide a novel terpenoid derivative that exhibits anti-inflammatory action and a cytoprotective action by activating the Keap1/Nrf2/ARE signaling pathway. The present invention provides terpenoid derivative A represented by the following formula (I): ##STR00001##

Disclosed in the present specification is a hypoallergenic composition for skin regeneration or skin soothing, containing, as an active ingredient, an Aureobasidium pullulans strain, a lysate thereof, a culture product thereof, or an extract of the strain, lysate or culture product. Unlike conventional functional ingredients, the composition is non-irritating to the skin, and thus is safe, while having a skin regeneration effect, and has a skin soothing effect by relieving irritation.

The application discloses a method for preparing crude polysaccharides based on synergistic fermentation with corn stover and fungus, including the following steps: step (1): drying corn stover, pulverizing, placing in a hydrothermal reactor, adding deionized water, sealing the hydrothermal reactor, placing in a heating device, reacting, taking out reaction products, centrifuging and drying a solid; step (2): adding the products obtained in step (1) and dried bean curd residue to a container, adding distilled water, mixing uniformly, sterilizing to obtain a mixed material, inoculating a fungus inoculum under aseptic conditions, sealing the container and cultivating in the dark to obtain crude polysaccharides. The disclosure uses corn stover and bean curd residue as raw materials to achieve efficient utilization of discarded biomass, reduce environmental pollution, and improve utilization of corn stover.

A solid composition according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes fungal dormant sclerotium, a carbon source nutrient, and a nitrogen source nutrient. The solid composition is a dried solid composition. The solid composition may weed out target plants, including the burcucumber which is designated as an ecologically damaging plant and suppress soil-borne diseases like Sclerotinia dollar spot disease. By using the solid composition, burcucumber and Sclerotinia dollar spot disease can effectively be controlled, and it is possible to make significant gains in solving problems with biological products containing microorganisms in stages of production, storage, distribution, and usage process.

A method of improving the viability, persistence, and/or vigor of a host plant in the form of Lolium multiflorum Lolium x hybridum and Lolium perenne, (host grass) includes artificially inoculating the host grass with an LpTG-3 endophyte RGT18 strain. The LpTG-3 endophyte RGT18 strain can produce at least one alkaloid or combination of alkaloids that provide the host grass with a favorable alkaloid profile and/or protect the plant from biotic stresses.

The present disclosure relates to compositions and methods for combinatorial assessment of nanoscale droplets, as specifically exemplified by massively parallel assessment of spatially-directed (while agnostic as to precise droplet content) combinations of droplets harboring distinct and independently identifiable microbial types and/or chemical compounds or mixtures. More particularly, the disclosure relates to a platform and methodologies for identifying advantageous (including synergistic, additive, etc.) microbial interactions and/or chemical compound or mixture interactions with microbes in a manner that allows for binary, trinary, etc. combinatorial assessments to be performed across a range of many discrete input types of microbes (e.g., 6-16 or more discrete input microbial types), to an extent capable of approaching comprehensive sampling and measurement of microbial community combinations from a selected panel of microbial inputs, optionally also in the presence of chemical compounds or mixtures (e.g., test compounds or mixtures for antimicrobial effect).