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Host plant influences pathogenicity of Beauveria bassiana to Bemisia tabaci and its sporulation on cadavers

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Laboratory bioassays were conducted to determine host plant effect on pathogenicity of the entomopathogenic fungus Beauveria bassiana (Balsamo) Vuill. (Ascomycota: Hypocreales) to the sweetpotato whitefly, Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius) (Homoptera: Aleyrodidae). Fourth instar B. tabaci reared on cucumber, tomato, melon, green pepper, potato, eggplant, marrow, cabbage, bean or cotton, were treated with 1 × 107 conidia/ml B. bassiana EABb 93/14-Tp isolate. Mortality caused by B. bassiana significantly increased with time and it was significantly affected by the host plant on which the nymphs were reared. Mean mortality of nymphs 8 days after inoculation ranged between 52.3±7.3 for nymphs reared on cotton and 91.8±5.8 for nymphs reared on cucumber. Average survival times of nymphs treated with the fungal suspensions were also significantly influenced by the host plant, with a mean of 4.7±0.1 days for nymphs reared on cucumber, 6.6±0.2 days for cotton and 6.9±0.1 days for green pepper. The production of newly formed conidia was also affected by host plant and varied from 111000±8600 conidia/cadaver for nymphs reared on cotton to 597000±28000 conidia/cadaver for those reared on melon.

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  1. Department of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences, ETSIAM, University of Cordoba, Campus de Rabanales, Edificio C4, 14071, Cordoba, Spain

    Cándido Santiago-Álvarez & Enrique Quesada-Moraga

  2. IPA, Caixa Postal 003, CEP 55602-970, Vitória de Santo Antao – PE, Brasil

    Elizabeth Araujo Maranhão & Eduardo Maranhão

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Santiago-Álvarez, C., Maranhão, E.A., Maranhão, E. et al. Host plant influences pathogenicity of Beauveria bassiana to Bemisia tabaci and its sporulation on cadavers. Biocontrol 51, 519–532 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10526-005-5737-1

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