Impact of moisture on in vitro germination of Metarhizium anisopliae and Beauveria bassiana and their activity on Triatoma infestans

Mycological Research

Volumn 110, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 485-492

  Lazzarini, Gustavo Maximiano Junqueira ^a   Rocha, Luiz Fernando Nunes ^a   Luz, Christian ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF GOIÁS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Biocontrol; Chagas disease; Entomopathogens; Insect pathology; Triatomines

Indexed keywords

FUNGUS; GERMINATION; INSECT; MOISTURE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; DISEASE CARRIER; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMIDITY; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; TRIATOMA;

ANIMALS; ASCOMYCOTA; HUMIDITY; INSECT VECTORS; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TRIATOMA;

BRAZIL; SOUTH AMERICA;

ARTHROPODA; BEAUVERIA; CORDYCEPS BASSIANA; METARHIZIUM ANISOPLIAE; TRIATOMA INFESTANS;

EID: 33745960734     PISSN: 09537562     EISSN: 14698102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mycres.2005.12.001     Document Type: Article

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