Beauveria bassiana yeast phase on agar medium and its pathogenicity against Diatraea saccharalis (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) and Tetranychus urticae (Acari: Tetranychidae)

Journal of Invertebrate Pathology

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 70-77

  Alves, Sérgio Batista ^a   Rossi, Luciana Savoi ^a   Lopes, Rogério Biaggioni ^a   Tamai, Marco Antonio ^a   Pereira, Roberto M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b CENTER FOR MEDICAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACARI; ARTHROPODA; BEAUVERIA; CORDYCEPS BASSIANA; CRAMBINAE; DIATRAEA; DIATRAEA SACCHARALIS; FUNGI; HYPHOMYCETES; INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA; METARHIZIUM; METARHIZIUM ANISOPLIAE; PAECILOMYCES; TETRANYCHIDAE; TETRANYCHUS; TETRANYCHUS URTICAE;

AGAR;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; CORDYCEPS; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LIFE CYCLE; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MOTH; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TETRANYCHIDAE; ULTRASTRUCTURE; YEAST;

AGAR; ANIMALS; CORDYCEPS; FEMALE; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MOTHS; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; TETRANYCHIDAE; YEASTS;

EID: 0036436531     PISSN: 00222011     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-2011(02)00147-7     Document Type: Article

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