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Table 5 Mean of mortality of different larval instars of Spodoptera frugiperda fed on leaves of endophytic fungi colonized (seed treated) and non-colonized (control) young maize

From: Endophytic fungi from South Sumatra (Indonesia) in seed-treated corn seedlings Affecting development of the fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda J.E. Smith (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)

Isolate

Species

Mean of mortality of different larval instars (%)

1st

2nd

3rd

4th

5th

6th

Control

2.67

6.00b

6.67e

6.67c

6.67c

6.67e

JGTP240521A

Beauveria bassiana

14.67

24.00a

43.33a

48.67a

51.33a

51.33a

WTTJC260521A

Beauveria bassiana

8.00

21.33a

36.67ab

39.33ab

42.00ab

45.33ab

WTTJC260521B

Metarhizium anisopliae

2.67

5.33b

8.00de

12.00c

15.33c

24.67d

WTTJC290521A

Beauveria bassiana

7.33

11.33ab

20.00cd

30.67b

36.00b

44.67ab

WTTJC290521B

Beauveria bassiana

8.67

16.67ab

22.67bc

27.33b

29.33b

38.67bc

JGNT300521

Beauveria bassiana

8.00

16.00ab

21.33bc

26.67b

28.00b

32.67c

F-value

2.93 ns

7.74*

22.96*

27.02*

35.02*

176.07*

P-value

0.053

0.001

 < 0.0001

 < 0.0001

 < 0.0001

 < 0.0001

HSD value

10.95

10.00

9.64

8.74

3.90

  1. ns = not significantly different * = significantly different; values within a column followed by the same letters were not significantly different at P < 0.05 according to Tukey's HSD test