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Chapters
- 00:04Introduction
- 01:15Blastospore Production and Inoculation
- 03:26Preparation of the Solid Substrate, Inoculation, and Fermentation
- 05:40Drying of Fungal Cultures
- 06:49Harvest of Fungal Conidia
- 08:02Results: Comparision of Conidia Yield Obtained From Metarhizium pinghaensand Metarhizium robertsii
- 09:27Conclusion
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.
