1Department of Microbiology, College of Basic Sciences and Humanities, Uttar Pradesh, India
2Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, 141004, Pubjab, India
Department of Entomology, College of Agriculture, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel University of Agriculture and Technology, Meerut250110
*Email: siwach2363@gmail.com (corresponding author)
This study analysed 256 soil samples from four districts viz. Meerut, Muzaffarnagar, Saharanpur, and Shamali in the Western Plain zone of Uttar Pradesh for entomopathogenic fungi for its efficiency on the tomato fruit borer Helicoverpa armiger (Hubner). These analyses led to isolation of Beauveria bassiana, Lecanicillium lecanii and Nomuraea rileyi from districts Saharanpur and Shamali; and Metarhizium anisopliae from Saharanpur and Muzaffarnagar. Random Amplification of Polymorphic (RAPD) analyses of these fungi with 20 random primers gave six scorable bands with reproducible results, of which the dendrogram brought out the similarity amongst them.
Metarhizium anisopliae, Beauveria bassiana, Nomuraea rileyi, Lecanicillium lecanii, Helicoverpa armigera, RAPD analyses, Dendrogram, Distribution, Strains
