Identification of pathogenic strains of entomopathogenic nematodes and fungi for wireworm control

Crop Protection

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 269-272

  Ansari, M A ^a   Evans, M ^a   Butt, T M ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Beauveria bassiana; Bioassay; Biocontrol; Heterorhabditis bacteriophora; Heterorhabditis downesi; Heterorhabditis megidis; Metarhizium anisopliae; Paecilomyces fumosoroseus; Steinernema carpocapsae; Steinernema feltiae; Virulence; Wireworms

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; BIOASSAY; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; ENTOMOPATHOGENIC ORGANISM; FUNGUS; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; INSECTICIDE; NEMATODE; PATHOGEN; PEST CONTROL; VIRULENCE;

AGRIOTES LINEATUS; BEAUVERIA; BULNESIA SARMIENTI; COLEOPTERA; CORDYCEPS BASSIANA; ELATERIDAE; FUNGI; HETERORHABDITIS BACTERIOPHORA; HETERORHABDITIS DOWNESI; HETERORHABDITIS MEGIDIS; METARHIZIUM ANISOPLIAE; NEMATODA; PAECILOMYCES FUMOSOROSEUS; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; STEINERNEMA CARPOCAPSAE; STEINERNEMA FELTIAE;

EID: 58849100774     PISSN: 02612194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cropro.2008.11.003     Document Type: Article

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