Effects of constant and fluctuating temperatures on sporulation and infection by the aphid-pathogenic fungus Pandora neoaphidis
Effects of constant and fluctuating temperatures on sporulation and infection by the aphid-pathogenic fungus Pandora neoaphidis
- Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, 103(3), p.257-266, 2002 .
Laboratory studies were performed to assess the importance of temperature on sporulation and infection by the aphid-pathogenic fungus Pandora neoaphidis (Remaudiere and Hennebert)Humber. Numbers of primary conidia discharged from mycelium formulated as alginate granules and unformulated mycelial mats were assessed, as well as infection of the potato aphid, Macrosiphum euphorbiae (Thomas)(Homoptera, Hemiptera, Aphididae), using culture plugs as inoculum sources. Sporulation from experiments at constant temperatures indicated the optimum temperature range was 10.20 .C for both mycelial preparations and there was no or very little sporulation at 30 .C. Infection of aphids kept at 15 .C was 34.50
PANDORA NEOAPHIDIS
MYCOPATHOGENS
SPORULATION
INFECTION
TEMPERATURE
MACROSIPHUM EUPHORBIAE
HOMOPTERA
APHIDIDAE
ENTOMOPHTHORALES
Laboratory studies were performed to assess the importance of temperature on sporulation and infection by the aphid-pathogenic fungus Pandora neoaphidis (Remaudiere and Hennebert)Humber. Numbers of primary conidia discharged from mycelium formulated as alginate granules and unformulated mycelial mats were assessed, as well as infection of the potato aphid, Macrosiphum euphorbiae (Thomas)(Homoptera, Hemiptera, Aphididae), using culture plugs as inoculum sources. Sporulation from experiments at constant temperatures indicated the optimum temperature range was 10.20 .C for both mycelial preparations and there was no or very little sporulation at 30 .C. Infection of aphids kept at 15 .C was 34.50
PANDORA NEOAPHIDIS
MYCOPATHOGENS
SPORULATION
INFECTION
TEMPERATURE
MACROSIPHUM EUPHORBIAE
HOMOPTERA
APHIDIDAE
ENTOMOPHTHORALES