Microbial pathogens of the coconut pest Oryctes rhinoceros: Influence of weather factors on their infectivity and study of their coincidental ecology in Kerala, India

World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 417-421

  Gopal, Murali ^a   Gupta, Alka ^a   Sathiamma, B ^a   Nair, C P R ^a  

^a ICAR CENTRAL PLANTATION CROPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Abiotic factors; Coconut palm; Influencing infectivity; Metarhizium anisopliae; Microbial pathogens; Oryctes rhinoceros; Oryctes virus; Pseudornonas alcaligenes

Indexed keywords

ALCALIGENES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); COCOS NUCIFERA; COLEOPTERA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA; METARHIZIUM; METARHIZIUM ANISOPLIAE; ORYCTES; ORYCTES RHINOCEROS; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS ALCALIGENES; RHINOCEROS;

EID: 0036275210     PISSN: 09593993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1015540625298     Document Type: Article

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