Overlooking the importance of insect disease can have disastrous effects on insect conservation. This study reported the microfungi that infect Pteroptyx bearni eggs and larvae during ex-situ rearing project. Two different species of microfungi that infected the firefly's immature life stages were isolated and identified. Penicillium citrinum infected the firefly's eggs while Trichoderma harzia...

Twenty isolates of Bacillus species obtained from livestock manure composts and cotton-waste composts were tested for their antagonistic effects in vitro against three green mold pathogens of mushrooms (Trichoderma harzianum, T. koningii, and T. viridescens). However, there exists a possibility Bacillus species may have antagonistic effects against mushrooms themselves, and thus the same 20 iso...

An environmentally compatible method for controlling sapstain fungi in wood was evaluated, using a combination of chitosan and an albino strain Trichoderma harzianum, biological control agent (BCA). The growth penetration into the Ophiostoma piceae, Leptographium procerum, Sphaeropsis sapinea were assessed radiata pine wafers treated with BCA, both alone combination. Several mycological microsc...

A total of 75 isolates belonging to five different species of Trichoderma viz., T. asperellum, T. harzianum, T. longibrachiatum, T. pseudokoningii and T. virens were screened for the production of silver nanoparticles. Although all the isolates produced nanoparticles, T. virens VN-11 could produce maximum nanoparticles as evident from the UV-Vis study. The highest Plasmon band was observed at 4...

Seven different strains of Trichoderma are isolated from wilt infected leguminous crops of a Madhya Pradesh state and tested for their antagonistic activity against Fusarium (soil borne pathogen) which is expressed as a zone of inhibition in the culture plates. The seven strains are identified as Trichoderma viride, T. harzianum, T. asperellum, T. koningii, T. atroviride, T. longibrachiatum, an...

Pot experiment was conducted to find out the competence of some commercial product Trichoderma spp. on management root knot nematode in tomato crop. The RCBD having seven treatments six different including one control three replications. Each treatment had five pots. Twenty days old seedling Shrijana hybrid transplanted and inoculated with 1500 eggs Meloidogyne soil after transplanting seedling...

Banded leaf and sheath blight (BLSB) of maize (Zea mays L.) caused by Rhizoctonia solani f. sp. sasakii is one the most important yield-limiting factors faced growers in India. Therefore, attempts were made to identify promising suitable bioagents for management BLSB maize. Present study was carried out check efficacy two bioformulations, viz. Pusa Th3 (Trichoderma harzianum) Cg2 (Chaetomium gl...

to evaluate the effect of metarhizium anisopliae and trichoderma harzianum on root knot nematode (meloidogyne javanica) in tomato, experiments was performed under controlled as well as greenhouse conditions. volatile and non-volatile tests showed that there is no inhibitory effect against every one of each biocontrol agents. on the larval mortality and inhibition of egg hatching, a laboratory t...