Table 1 Screening of entomopathogenic fungal isolates against fall armyworm

Beauveria bassiana ICAR-NBAIR Bb-5a

28.6 ± 0.88^b

Hypothenemus hampei (coffee berry borer)

JF837134

Karnataka

Beauveria bassiana ICAR-NBAIR Bb-11

57.1 ± 0.10^a

Tetranychus urticae (red spider mite)

JF837121

Karnataka

Beauveria bassiana ICAR-NBAIR Bb-45

64.3 ± 1.67^a

Rhizosphere soil of carrot

JF837094

Tamil Nadu

Metarhizium anisopliae ICAR-NBAIR Ma-4

21.4 ± 0.88^bc

Plocaederus ferrugineus (cashew stem and root borer)

JF837157

Karnataka

Metarhizium anisopliae ICAR-NBAIR Ma-11

10.7 ± 0.88^bc

Agrotis ipsilon (black cutworm)

JF837146

Assam

Metarhizium anisopliae ICAR-NBAIR Ma-14a

21.4 ± 0.88^bc

Rhizosphere soil of chili

JF837110

Assam

Metarhizium anisopliae ICAR-NBAIR Ma-15

17.8 ± 0.88^bc

Soil from termite mound

JF837154

Assam

Metarhizium anisopliae ICAR-NBAIR Ma-35

67.8 ± 0.58^a

Soil (fallow lands)

JQ518481

Gujarat

Metarhizium rileyi ICAR-NBAIR Nr-1

14.3 ± 0.00^bc

Spodoptera litura (tobacco cutworm)

MN907775

Andhra Pradesh

Metarhizium anisopliae ICAR-NBAIR Nr Sf-1

21.4 ± 0.33^bc

Spodoptera frugiperda (fall armyworm)

MN602591

Karnataka

Control

6.67 ± 0.88^c

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CD@1%

0.590

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