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Table 4 Mean percent mortality of 3rd instar larvae of fall armyworm Spodoptera frugiperda exposed to different concentrations of indigenous isolates of entomopathogenic fungi Beauveria bassiana and Metarhizium anisopliae under laboratory conditions

From: Isolation, identification and virulence of indigenous entomopathogenic fungal strains against the peach-potato aphid, Myzus persicae Sulzer (Hemiptera: Aphididae), and the fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda (J.E. Smith) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)

Source

DF

Beauveria bassiana

Metarhizium anisopliae

SS

MS

F-value

P-value

SS

MS

F-value

P-value

Time

3

32,130.0

10,710.0

300.63

 ≥ 0.001

54,145.0

18,048.3

721.93

 ≥ 0.001

Concentration

3

3380.0

1126.7

31.63

 ≥ 0.001

3255.0

1085.0

43.40

 ≥ 0.001

Time × Concentration

9

4130.0

458.9

12.88

 ≥ 0.001

1675.0

186.1

7.44

 ≥ 0.001

Error

64

2280.0

35.6

  

1600

25.0

  

Total

79

41,920.0

   

60,675.0

   

Grand Mean

 

24.00

   

28.75

   

CV

 

24.87

   

17.39

   
  1. P ≥ 0.001 (highly significant) and P ≥ 0.01 (significant); two-factor factorial ANOVA at α = 0.05