ISOLATION, IDENTIFICATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL STUDIES AND EVALUATION OF POTENT ENTOMOPATHOGENIC FUNGUS Beauveria bassiana (Bals.)Vuill AGAINST Spodoptera litura (Fab).
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ISOLATION, IDENTIFICATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL STUDIES AND EVALUATION OF POTENT ENTOMOPATHOGENIC FUNGUS Beauveria bassiana (Bals.)Vuill AGAINST Spodoptera litura (Fab).
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PATEL, RAHUL S.
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PUROHIT, M.S.
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Investigations on “Isolation, identification, physiological studies and evaluation of potent entomopathogenic fungus Beauveria bassiana (Bals.)Vuill against Spodoptera litura (Feb).” were carried out at Bio-control Laboratory, Department of Entomology, N.M.College of Agriculture, Navsari Agricultural University, Navsari during 2010-2012. Microscopic examination and isolation of field collected larvae of H. armigera yielded whitish fluffy growth of B. bassiana and produced whitish, single-celled conidia which was globose to ellipsoid, thin walled and hydrophobic whereas, mycelium was aseptate and initially transparent with white in color and later it was converted in to milky white color with development of dull white colored spore. B. bassiana was found to be pathogenic to S. litura which exhibited 96.67 per cent mortality on 8th day after treatment. Sabouraud’s dextrose medium and potato dextrose medium proved to be superior in the growth and sporulation of B. bassiana. However, in case of grain media gram, bajara, sorghum and maiz grain served as a best grain substrate media for growth and sporulation of B. bassiana. The best nitrogen sources for growth and sporulation of B. bassiana were peptone and ammonium phosphate incorporated in to Sabouraud’s dextrose broth as they produced 66.00 x 108 conidia/ml and 57.00 x 108 conidia per ml, respectively. Whereas, Sabouraud’s dextrose medium having glucose and fructose proved to be best carbon sources for growth as well as sporulation (46.33 x 108 and 39 x 108 conidia/ml ) of B. bassiana. The treatment of temperature 25 ± 2 0C and 30 ± 2 0C found more congenial for growth and sporulation of B. bassiana as it produced 466.00 X 108 conidia per ml and 392.33 X 108 conidia per ml, respectively. Whereas, the humidity regimes at 90 ± 5 per cent was most suitable for growth and sporulation (502.00 X 108 conidia/ml) followed by 80 ± 5 per cent RH (450.33 X 108 conidia/ml). The pH regimes 5.5 and 6.0 proved effective in increasing growth and sporulation of B. bassiana significantly higher sporulation i.e. 110.67 X 108 conidia per ml and 95.00 X 108 conidia per ml, respectively. At 50 minutes of UVexposure treatment, the highest growth and sporulation was recorded in fungal culture with adjuvant glycerol (32.00 X 108 conidia/ml) and fungus culture with adjuvant tween-80 (25.67 X 108 conidia/ml). The carrier talc found very effective in increasing the shelf life of B. bassiana even after 6 month. The inhibition of B. bassiana was cent per cent with various fungicides viz., mancozeb 75 WP, carbendazim 50 WP, hexaconazole 5 EC, tridemorph 80 EC, difenconazole 25 EC and copperoxychloride 50 WP. In case of insecticide it was found that thiamethoxam (803.67 x 106 conidia /ml) was more compatible with B. bassiana which was at par with indoxacarb (758.67 x 106 conidia /ml) as compared to rest of the insecticide tested. Symptoms produced by B. bassiana after application on S. litura noted that the development of small isolated brown to black spots on host body which cover whole body. These progressed with death of host and outer proliferation of white mycelium and ultimately cover the body of host with spore development. The highest mortality and feeding inhibition of S. litura, A. janata and E. fraternal was recorded at different doses viz., 1 X 1010, 1X 109 conidia and 1 X 108 conidia per ml. Lethal concentration of B. bassiana required to kill the 50 per cent larvae of S. litura, A. janata and E. fraternal were different at each time interval. Fiducial limit was maximum at 2 day after treatment in case of S. litura, A. janata and E. fraternal which was decreased as the time laps after treatment increases. |
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2016-05-10T11:31:27Z
2016-05-10T11:31:27Z 2013-07 |
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Thesis
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http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/65927
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en
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application/pdf
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Navsari Agricultural University
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