Université de Fribourg

Virulence of in vivo and in vitro produced conidia of Metarhizium brunneum strains for control of wireworms

Eckard, Sonja ; Ansari, Minshad A. ; Bacher, Sven ; Butt, Tariq M. ; Enkerli, Jürg ; Grabenweger, Giselher

In: Crop Protection, 2014, vol. 64, p. 137–142

Wireworms are the soil inhabiting larvae of click beetles and can cause severe damage to arable crops such as potatoes (Solanum tuberosum, L.). Several strains of the entomopathogenic fungus Metarhizium brunneum (Petch) are pathogenic to wireworms. In this study, three European strains of M. brunneum were tested in the laboratory against the most damaging wireworm species in Europe, Agriotes...