Potential of Metarhizium anisopliae and Beauveria bassiana in the control of tea termite Microtermes obesi Holmgren in vitro and under field conditions

Journal of Pest Science

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 69-75

  Singha, Dipendra ^a   Singha, Baby ^b   Dutta, Biman K ^a  

^a ASSAM UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b GC College   (India)

Author keywords

Beauveria; Epizootic; Metarhizium; Microtermes; Relative pathogenicity; Virulent

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; FUNGUS; LABORATORY METHOD; PATHOGENICITY; PEST CONTROL; SURVIVAL; TERMITE; VIRULENCE;

BEAUVERIA; CORDYCEPS BASSIANA; ISOPTERA; METARHIZIUM; METARHIZIUM ANISOPLIAE; MICROTERMES; MICROTERMES OBESI;

EID: 79952072494     PISSN: 16124758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10340-010-0328-z     Document Type: Article

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