Effect of entomopathogenic fungi against invasive pest Spodoptera frugiperda (J. E. Smith) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) in maize

Egyptian Journal of Biological Pest Control

Table 1 Screening of entomopathogenic fungal isolates against fall armyworm

Isolates	% mortality*	Source of the isolate	NCBI Genbank accession number	Location
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	–	–
CD@1%	0.590	–	–

*Values in columns followed by the different letters are significantly (P < 0.01) different with each other