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Table 1 Efficacy of BKN20 5%AS against TMB in micro-plot study

From: Beauveria bassiana: as a potential microbial biocontrol agent for tea mosquito bug, Helopeltis theivora Waterhouse (Hemiptera: Miridae) in Dooars and Darjeeling, India

Treatments

Concentration (ha)

Pre-spray leaf damage incidence (%)*

Shoot damage reduction (%) after 21 days*

BKN20 5%AS

1000 ml$

29.11

72.19b

Thiamethoxam 25%WG

120 g

31.18

63.12a

  1. *Values represent the mean of three replications ± SE, for pre-spray shoot damage incidence (before treatments) and shoot damage reduction (obtained from four rounds of leaf plucking after treatments at weekly interval)
  2. $Containing 2 × 107 conidia/ml. Values in the same column with different superscript are significantly different with each other at p < 0.05 by Tukey’s post-hoc Honestly Significant Difference (HSD) test