Preparation of the Solid Substrate, Inoculation, and Fermentation
5:40
Drying of Fungal Cultures
6:49
Harvest of Fungal Conidia
8:02
Results: Comparision of Conidia Yield Obtained From Metarhizium pinghaensand Metarhizium robertsii
9:27
Conclusion
Transcript
This method provides new information on how to mass produce infective conidia of entomopathogenic fungi to control important insect pests in commercial agro-ecosystems, given the current situation where most insecticides are phased out due to conc
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Entomopathogenic fungi have gained importance as the biological control agents of agricultural insect pests. In this study, the mass production of a sufficient number of resilient infective propagules of South African isolates of both Metarhizium robertsii and M. pinghaense for commercial application against insect pests was successfully conducted using agricultural grain products.