The infectivity of entomolpathogenic fungi beauvaria bassiana and metarhizium anisopliae to rhynchophorus ferrugineus (olivier) stages under laboratory conditions

Acta Horticulturae

Volumn 882, Issue , 2010, Pages 431-436

  Shawir, M S ^a   Al Jabr, A M ^b  

^a ALEXANDRIA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b KING FAISAL UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Beauvaria bassiana; Bioassay; Metarhizium anisopliae; Rhynchophorus ferrugineus

Indexed keywords

ARECACEAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BEAUVERIA; CORDYCEPS BASSIANA; FUNGI; HEXAPODA; METARHIZIUM ANISOPLIAE; RHYNCHOPHORUS FERRUGINEUS;

EID: 80053250382     PISSN: 05677572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.17660/ActaHortic.2010.882.48     Document Type: Conference Paper

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