Pathogenicity of Metarhizium anisopliae to the chestnut weevil larvae under laboratory and field conditions

Applied Entomology and Zoology

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 461-465

  Ihara, Fumio ^a   Toyama, Masatoshi ^a   Sato, Takeru ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF FRUIT TREE SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chestnut weevil; Metarhizium anisopliae; Microbial control

Indexed keywords

FUNGI; METARHIZIUM; METARHIZIUM ANISOPLIAE;

EID: 1342289409     PISSN: 00036862     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1303/aez.2003.461     Document Type: Article

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