Insecticidal activity of Bacillus laterosporus

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 2723-2725

  Orlova, Margarita V ^a   Smirnova, Tatyana A ^a   Ganushkina, Lyudmila A ^b   Yacubovich, Victoria Y ^b   Azizbekyan, Roudolf R ^a  

^a STATE RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND SELECTION OF INDUSTRIAL MICROORGANISMS   (Russian Federation)

^b Martsinovsky Institute of Medical Parasitology and Tropical Medicine   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; INSECTICIDE; TOXICITY;

AEDES AEGYPTI; ANOPHELES STEPHENSI; ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACTERIAL SPORE; CULEX PIPIENS; INSECT CONTROL; LARVA; NONHUMAN;

AEDES AEGYPTI; ANOPHELES STEPHENSI; BACILLUS LATEROSPORUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BREVIBACILLUS LATEROSPORUS; CULEX PIPIENS; CULICIDAE; DIPTERA; INSECTA;

EID: 0031842745     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.7.2723-2725.1998     Document Type: Article

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