Table 1.
Overall bioefficacy index percent (means ± SE) of entomopathogenic fungal isolates
| Accession number@ | Mycelial growth (cm2) | Spore × 108/ml | Abbotts corrected mortality (%)$,&# | Bioefficacy index (%)# | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 DAI* | 5 DAI | 7 DAI | ||||
| MTCC-4511 | 59.3 | 6.5 | 75.0 (60.0)ab | 88.6(70.3)a | 95.1(77.2)a | 70.3(57.0)a |
| MTCC-4565 | 62.4 | 1.5 | 57.2 (49.1)c | 76.6(61.1)b | 89.9(71.5)ab | 68.2(55.7)ab |
| MTCC-4543 | 50.3 | 5.9 | 67.4(55.2)bc | 80.0(63.4)ab | 85.4(67.5)b | 62.1(52.0)abc |
| MTCC-6097 | 51.7 | 4.4 | 23.6(29.1)d | 64.4(53.4)c | 81.7(64.7)b | 60.5(51.1)bc |
| MTCC-4111 | 68.9 | 0.4 | 32.9(35.0)d | 64.8(53.6)c | 68.9(56.1)c | 60.0(50.8)bc |
| MTCC-4537 | 37.7 | 9.9 | 83.6(66.1)ab | 83.7(66.2)a | 86.4(68.4)ab | 58.4(49.8)c |
| MTCC-4581 | 44.2 | 1.3 | 60.0 (58.3)b | 74.8 (59.9)b | 78.8 (62.6)b | 55.9 (48.4)c |
| MTCC-4568 | 57.7 | 0.4 | 58.8 (50.1)bc | 64.5 (53.4)c | 68.7 (56.0)c | 55.8 (48.3)cd |
| MTCC-6288 | 27.6 | 18.4 | 82.0(64.9)ab | 82.6 (65.3)a | 86.2 (68.2)ab | 55.7 (48.3)cd |
| MTCC-4575 | 49.0 | 12.8 | 56.8 (48.9)bc | 69.8 (56.7)b | 70.3 (57.0)c | 55.0 (48.3)cd |
| MTCC-6289 | 16.8 | 7.5 | 83.2 (65.8)a | 87.1 (69.0)a | 93.8 (75.6)ab | 54.1 (47.4)cde |
| MTCC-4542 | 16.0 | 19.1 | 70.4 (57.0)b | 72.9 (58.6)bc | 82.8 (65.5)b | 49.8 (44.9)de |
| MTCC-4535 | 10.5 | 2.5 | 76.9 (61.3)ab | 80.0 (63.4)a | 81.5 (64.5) b | 45.0 (42.1)e |
| MTCC-4549 | 44.2 | 2.3 | 48.3 (48.9)bc | 62.8 (52.4)c | 73.5 (59.0)c | 53.4 (46.9)e |
| LSD at 0.05 | 8.03 | 1.61 | 7.47 | 7.20 | 7.84 | 5.46 |
| SE(m) | 2.89 | 0.58 | 2.68 | 2.58 | 2.80 | 1.97 |
| SE(d) | 4.08 | 0.89 | 3.68 | 3.65 | 3.97 | 2.79 |
| CV | 15.73 | 15.74 | 11.79 | 9.71 | 9.61 | 9.47 |
$Values are means of three replications (three plants with three leaves each) for each of the EPF isolates tested under polyhouse conditions
@Top 15 EPF isolates tested using a spore concentration of 1 × 107 conidia ml−1
&Figures in parenthesis are arcsign transformed values
#For corrected nymphal mortality means within a column followed by the same upper-case letter and means within a row followed by the same lower-case letter do not differ significantly (LSD, P ≤ 0.05)
*DAI, days after inoculation