Production and processing of Metarhizium anisopliae var. acridum submerged conidia for locust and grasshopper control

Mycological Research

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 93-100

  Kassa, Adane ^a   Stephan, Dietrich ^a   Vidal, Stefan ^b   Zimmermann, Gisbert ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PATHOGEN DIAGNOSTICS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; BIOPESTICIDE; BIOTECHNOLOGY; ENTOMOPATHOGENIC ORGANISM; FUNGAL DISEASE; GRASSHOPPER; LOCUST; PROCESSING;

ANIMALIA; FUNGI; FUNGI IMPERFECTI; INSECTA; METARHIZIUM; METARHIZIUM ANISOPLIAE; METARHIZIUM ANISOPLIAE VAR. ACRIDUM;

EID: 1542378711     PISSN: 09537562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0953756203008827     Document Type: Article

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