Morphological changes, chitinolytic enzymes and hydrophobin-like proteins as responses of Lecanicillium lecanii during growth with hydrocarbon.

Lecanicillium lecanii, Verticillium chlamydosporium, V. fungicola var flavidum and Beauveria bassiana were evaluated on their growth with pure n-hexane, toluene and n-hexane:toluene 17:83 (v:v) mixture. Another set of treatments were conducted with colloidal chitin as additional carbon source.