Laboratory evaluation of temperature effects on the germination and growth of entomopathogenic fungi and on their pathogenicity to two aphid species

Pest Management Science

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 156-165

  Yeo, Helen ^a,d,e   Pell, Judith K ^a   Alderson, Peter G ^d   Clark, Suzanne J ^b   Pye, Barry J ^c  

^a Plant and Invertebrate Ecology Division   (United Kingdom)

^b Biomathematics Unit   (United Kingdom)

^c Biological Chemistry Division   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aphis fabae; Conidial germination; Hyphomycetes; Isolate selection; Mycelial growth; Mycoinsecticide; Myzus persicae; Pathogenicity; Temperature

Indexed keywords

INSECTICIDE;

APHID; FUNGUS; GERMINATION; LABORATORY METHOD; PATHOGENICITY; PEST CONTROL; TEMPERATURE;

APHID; ARTICLE; BEAUVERIA; BIOASSAY; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; CONIDIUM; ENTOMOPATHOGENY; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GERMINATION; HYPHOMYCETES; METARHIZIUM ANISOPLIAE; NONHUMAN; PAECILOMYCES; PATHOGENICITY; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; VERTICILLIUM;

ANIMALS; APHIDS; FUNGI; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; SPORES, FUNGAL; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS;

APHIDIDAE; APHIS FABAE; BASSIANA; BEAUVERIA; BULNESIA SARMIENTI; CORDYCEPS BASSIANA; FUNGI; HYPHOMYCETES; METARHIZIUM ANISOPLIAE; MYZUS PERSICAE; PAECILOMYCES FUMOSOROSEUS; TORRUBIELLA CONFRAGOSA;

EID: 0037309455     PISSN: 1526498X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ps.622     Document Type: Article

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