Pathogenicity of Beauveria bassiana and Metarhizium anisopliae to the tobacco spider mite Tetranychus evansi

Experimental and Applied Acarology

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 41-50

  Wekesa, Vitalis W ^a,b   Maniania, Nguya K ^b   Knapp, Markus ^b   Boga, Hamadi I ^a  

^a JOMO KENYATTA UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Kenya)

^b INTERNATIONAL CENTRE OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY ICIPE   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Beauveria bassiana; Biological control; Fungi; Metarhizium anisopliae; Pathogenicity; Tetranychus evansi

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; BIOPESTICIDE; FUNGAL DISEASE; MITE; PATHOGENICITY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; DEUTEROMYCETES; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INFESTATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PLANT DISEASE; RANDOMIZATION; TETRANYCHIDAE; TOMATO;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; HYPOCREALES; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MITE INFESTATIONS; MITOSPORIC FUNGI; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT DISEASES; RANDOM ALLOCATION; TETRANYCHIDAE;

ACARI; ARANEAE; BASSIANA; BEAUVERIA; CORDYCEPS BASSIANA; FUNGI; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; METARHIZIUM ANISOPLIAE; NICOTIANA TABACUM; TETRANYCHIDAE; TETRANYCHUS EVANSI;

EID: 21244443507     PISSN: 01688162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10493-005-0508-3     Document Type: Article

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