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Chinese Journal of Biological Control ›› 2021, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (1): 124-129.DOI: 10.16409/j.cnki.2095-039x.2021.01.023

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Pathogenicity and Extracellular Enzyme Activities of Metarhizium anisopliae to Ectropis obliqua hypulina Wehrli

CHEN Feng1, WANG Changfang1, WANG Jun1, CHEN Wenle2, HU Jinfeng1, WU Wei1, YAO Jinai1   

  1. 1. Fujian Key Laboratory for Monitoring and Integrated Management of Crop Pests/Institute of Plant Protection, Fujian Academy of Agricultural Science, Fuzhou 350013, China;
    2. Sanming Agricultural and Rural Bureau, Sanming 365000, China
  • Received:2020-05-07 Published:2021-02-23

Abstract: Fungal strains were identified using morphological characteristics and rDNA-ITS sequence from entomogenous fungi isolated from insect cadaver in the humic layer of tea garden and evaluated for their biocontrol potential and extracellular enzyme activities against the 4th instar larvae of Ectropis obliquus. The isolated fungus was identified as Metarhizium anisopliae CHMA-005. After infection of the 4th instar larvae of E. obliquus for 10 days, the strain CHMA-005 resulted in mortality, LC50 and LT50 of 100%, 1.84×104 cfu/mL and 3.57 d, respectively. Protease activity and chitinase activity peaked on the 6th day after infection, which were 31.43 U/mL and 27.73 U/mL, respectively. Therefore, with high pathogenicity and extracellular enzyme activities to E. obliqua, M. anisopliae strain CHMA-005 has good biocontrol potential and application prospect.

Key words: Metarhizium anisopliae, toxicity, extracellular enzyme activity, Ectropis oblique

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