METHOD FOR ARTIFICIALLY CULTURING PLANT WORM AND EXTRACTED COMPOSITION OF ISARIA JAPONICA AND FUNCTIONAL FOOD USING THE SAME

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for artificially culturing a plant worm by which a fruit body can be formed from spores of a fungal body of the plant worm in a host in a short period with a high possibility and stably fed in a large amount irrespective of the seasons throughout the year, an extracted composition of an Isaria japonica worm plant forming the fruit body obtained by the method for artificial culturing and a functional food using a dried powder of the Isaria japonica worm plant or the extracted composition. SOLUTION: This method for artificial culturing the plant worm is characterized by directly injecting and inoculating a spore suspension of a strain of the plant worm into a body of an aseptically reared insect or an aseptically reared spider or decompressing insect or spider, then forcibly infiltrating and inoculating the spore suspension into the body of the insect or spider when releasing the body to atmospheric pressure in the method for artificially culturing the plant worm comprising forming the fruit body from the spores of the fungal body of the plant worm.