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Egyptian Journal of Biological Pest Control

Table 1 Colony expansion (per day) and conidia produced by different fungal Purpureocillium lilacinum isolates after 7 days

From: Morphological and molecular identification of four Purpureocillium isolates and evaluating their efficacy against the sweet potato whitefly, Bemisia tabaci (Genn.) (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae)

Isolate

Radial growth (mm/day)

Conidial yield (conidia/mL)

XI-1

3.64 ± 0.04 a

3.78 × 106 ± 0.12 a

XI-4

3.09 ± 0.02 b

2.87 × 106 ± 0.07 b

XI-5

3.62 ± 0.06 a

0.88 × 106 ± 0.07 d

J27

3.67 ± 0.05 c

1.22 × 106 ± 0.06 c

F; d.f; P

36.77; 3,8; < 0.001

271.26; 3,8; < 0.001

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