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the metabolic activity (Paris and Ferron, 1971). UV rays that causes alkylation and has been found effective in mutagenesing fungi has been employed in this study. Randomly picked colonies of V. lecanii and M. anisopliae that came up on SMAY agar on plating the mutant bank were picked up and analysed for their insecticidal activity. Four UV mutants of V. lecanii (VA2, VA5, VA11 and VA12) were found to be more toxic to aphids B. brassicae. The mutants of M. anisopliae Ma2 including MH2, MH4, MH8 and MH12 showed higher pathogencity to H. armigera. The highest mortality was observed in case of VA2 (91.97%) and MH4 (91.67%) on B. brassicae and H. armigera respectively. The mutants VA2 and MH4 showed 11.3 per cent and 23.94 per cent higher mortality over the wild type respectively. The results obtained indicate the potential of chemical and UV mutagenesis in improving the toxicity of entomopathogens. Mutants of M. anisopliae and Paelomyces farinosus have been generated earlier which were significantly more virulent. It is possible that more vigorous mutagenesis and wider screening will enable identification of more potent strains. Evaluation of potency of V. lecanii Vl1 against selected crop pests The effect of V. lecanii Vl1 was initially tested on B. brassicae and A. disperses in laboratory using different dosages of conidia. The per cent mortality was observed after different days of inoculation. The per cent mortality (92.3%) progressively increased upto 10 days after inoculation. At 10 days, the maximum mortality of B. brassicae was observed when 1.2 x 10 9 conidia/ml was used. The per cent mortality (80.95%) of A. disperses during the same period was also the highest when 1.2 x 10 9 conidia/ml inoculum was used. However, in an earlier study (Masuda and Kikachi, 1992), it was found that higher concentration (10 7 to 10 8 conidia/ml) was enough to cause 96-100 per cent mortality on A. gossypii by V. lecanii. The results indicate variability of pathogencity of V. lecanii on the two insect tested. V. lecanii was found to be more toxic to B. brassicae than A. disperses. The effect of V. lecanii has been reported earlier on Trialeurodes vaporariorum and B. tabaci which reported a per cent mortality of 91 and 100 using a inoculum of 3.2 x 10 6 . The effectiveness of the fungus, V. lecanii has been proved against Myzus persicae (Khalil et al., 1990; Milner and Lutton, 1986). Having known the potential of V. lecanii to be toxic to B. brassiae, A. disperses in laboratory condition, a field experiment was laid out in order to assess the performance of the entomopathogen on B. brassicae and Apis crassivora. The mortality in the field was however, lower when the same dosage was used 10 days after inoculation. Among the three isolates, Vl1 application showed higher rate of mortality (61.16%) of B. brassicae followed by Vl3 (50.17%). Overall, the efficacy of fungus was more effective at higher concentration and high exposure period than lower concentration and low exposure period. The reduction in toxicity in the field could be due to several reasons including the harmful effects of UV rays on the fungal pathogen itself (Ignoffo et al., 1976), less accessibility of the pathogen to the insect pest and dispersal of the conidia due to wind. Hence, sprays with higher initial population and additional sprays are required to augment the biocontrol potential in field. The lower effectiveness could be also due to the low humidity prevented during the period of experiment. All the five dosages of V. lecanii proved their supremacy to uninoculated treatments. Comparatively, the highest dosage (2 x 10 12 conidia/ha) caused 61.6 per cent mortality of B. brassicae after second spray which was lesser than the mortality caused by the recommended spray of dimethoate 30 EC (@ 1.7 ml/l) which resulted in 87.53 per cent. However, the results indicated that the fungus Vl1 at higher dosage (2 x 10 12 conidia/ha) did not lag much. All the dosages of V. lecanii isolates against A. crassivora proved their superiority over untreated treatment. Among the three isolates, Vl3, caused highest mortality of 66.50 per cent after second spray of higher dosage (2 x 10 12 conidia/ha). Dimethoate maintained their supremacy over the mycopathogen throughout the experimental period recording significantly
higher mortality of aphids. The commercial formulation Vertalec was found to control whitefly and aphid effectively at 10-13 h at ≥97 per cent relative humidity in Japan (Hall, 1982). The lower mortality of fungus than chemicals may be due to the fact that chemical insecticides were quick in action and hence reduced the whitefly population considerably. The entomopathogen which acted slowly on the pest allowed them to live on the plant, until the incubation period of the disease was completed (Miranpuri and Khachatourians, 1995). FUTURE LINE <strong>OF</strong> WORK 1. Extensive exploration of diverse areas and environmental niches need to be done. 2. Mutagenesis of the isolates need to be done on more vigorous note and larger screening need to be done. 3. Refinement of formulation and development of application technology to enhance the effectiveness of the fungus under field conditions. 4. Genetic/molecular diversity of the isolate need to be done in order to develop an inoculum consortia containing diverse strains. 5. The molecular basis of toxicity needs to analyse to attempt further exploitation of these mycopathogens.
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