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Table 1 Analysis of variance comparison of mortality of the third-instar larvae of Helicoverpa armigera Hübner bioassayed with soil isolated strain of Bacillus thuringiensis applied with 1.0% MgCl2 salt

From: Pathogenicity of indigenous soil isolate of Bacillus thuringiensis to Helicoverpa armigera Hübner 1809 (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)

Source

DF

Larval mortality (%)

Larval weight change (%)

MS

F value

P value

MS

F value

P value

Replication

3

103.70

  

2139.6

  

Time

4

2888.89

8.62

< 0.001*

36,772.6

2.75

0.0380*

Treatments

4

2740.74

8.18

< 0.001*

23,774.1

1.78

0.1631

Time × treatments

16

398.15

1.19

0.3113

8266.9

0.62

0.8168

Error

64

335.19

  

13,373.8

  

Total

99

      

CV/GM

 

117.69/15.556

  

72.00/160.61

  
  1. *P <  0.001 (highly significant) and P <  0.05 (significant); two-way factorial ANOVA at α = 0.05