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Table 2 Mortality and sporulation caused by Beauveria bassiana and Metarhizium anisopliae on Spodoptera frugiperda

From: Endophytic establishment of Beauveria bassiana and Metarhizium anisopliae in maize plants and its effect against Spodoptera frugiperda (J. E. Smith) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) larvae

Entomopathogenic fungi

Mortality

Sporulation

Mean ± SE

Percentage (%)

Mean ± SE

Percentage (%)

Beauveria bassiana

19.45 ± 0.23a

95.20

5.9 ± 0.19b

31.00

Metarhizium anisopliae

19.36 ± 0.28a

95.00

9.1 ± 0.20a

45.00

  1. Means followed by different lowercase letters in the same column differ statically by the Tukey DHS test (p ˂ 0.05)
  2. SE standard error