Hernandez-Trejo A1, B Estrada-Drouaillet1, JA López-Santillán1, C Rios-Velasco2, SE Varela-Fuentes1, R Rodríguez-Herrera3, E Osorio-Hernández1
Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol.88, No.1, pp. 47-54, 2019, DOI:10.32604/phyton.2019.04611
Abstract The control of Spodoptera frugiperda is based
on synthetic insecticides, so some alternatives are the use of
entomopathogenic fungi (EF) and neem extract. The objective of
the study was to evaluate in vitro effectiveness of native EF and
neem extracts on S. frugiperda larvae. Six EF were identified by
DNA sequencing of ITS regions from three EF (Fusarium solani,
Metarrhizium robertsii, Nigrospora spherica and Penicillium
citrinum). They were evaluated in concentrations of 1 × 10⁸ spores/
mL. In addition, a second bioassay was carried out evaluating
only F. solani, M. robertsii and N. sphaerica and… More >