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Egyptian Journal of Biological Pest Control

Table 1 Effect of the entomopathogenic fungus Beauveria bassiana and the insecticide chlorpyrifos treatments on the sugar beetroot weight during the two consecutive growing seasons (2021 and 2022)

From: Evaluation of chlorpyrifos and Beauveria bassiana as a strategy in the Egyptian sugar beet fields: impact on Spodoptera littoralis (Boisduval) and its associated predators populations and the sugar beetroot yield

Treatments

Seasons

Sugar beetroot weight

  

(ton/feddan)

(kg/replicate)

  

Mean ± S.E

Mean ± S.E

Beauveria bassiana

First

232.25 b ± 0.85

22.12 a ± 0.08

 

Second

231.50 b ± 0.50

22.04 a ± 0.05

Chlorpyrifos

First

235.50 a ± 0.28

22.42 a ± 0.03

 

Second

234.00 ab ± 0.91

22.28 a ± 0.08

Control

First

105.00 c ± 0.91

9.99 b ± 0.08

 

Second

104.75 c ± 0.63

10.10 b ± 0.14

  1. Means of the same column followed by different alphabetical letters are significantly different, P ≤ 0.05
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