Variations in UV-B tolerance and germination speed of Metarhizium anisopliae conidia produced on insects and artificial substrates

Journal of Invertebrate Pathology

Volumn 87, Issue 2-3, 2004, Pages 77-83

  Rangel, Drauzio E N ^a   Braga, Gilberto U L ^a,b   Flint, Stephan D ^a   Anderson, Anne J ^a   Roberts, Donald W ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Toxicologicas e Bromatologicas   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Conidial germination; Czapek's medium; Emerson's YpSs medium; Fungal nutrition; Fungal photobiology; Galleria mellonella; Metarhizium anisopliae; PDA and PPDAY media; UV B radiation; Zophobas morio

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEETLE; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; DEUTEROMYCETES; GERMINATION; IN VITRO STUDY; LEPIDOPTERA; METHODOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; GERMINATION; LEPIDOPTERA; MITOSPORIC FUNGI; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; RADIATION TOLERANCE; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

FUNGI; GALLERIA MELLONELLA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; METARHIZIUM; METARHIZIUM ANISOPLIAE; METARHIZIUM ANISOPLIAE VAR. ANISOPLIAE; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; ZOPHOBAS;

EID: 9644268089     PISSN: 00222011     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jip.2004.06.007     Document Type: Article

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