Effect of Baculovirus with adjuvants against Helicoverpa armigera (HBN) on Cotton and evaluation of its effect in Different Instar Narendrakumar G.1,*, Dey Ritayan1, Godavarthi Sarath Sasi1, Preethi T.V.2 1Department of Biotechnology, School of Bio and Chemical Engineering, Sathyabama University, Chennai-600119 2Department of Microbiology, School of Life Science, Vels University, Chennai, 600117, India *Corresponding Author E-mail: gnaren22@gmail.com
Online published on 17 October, 2017. Abstract During the past few years, the damage by the American bollworm Helicoverpa armigera (Hbn) has become serious on many crop plants especially cotton in South India. Along with that insecticide resistance varieties of larvae were also reported. In our study, field-collected larvae were reared in glass vial providing tender leaves for neonatal larvae and squares of grown up larvae. The along with the adjuvants were made into wettable and dust formulation and were studied. Evaluation of the Efficacy of Helicoverpa NPV with certain adjuvants possessing phagostimulants in combination were tested in different instars and results were tabulated. Top Keywords Adjuvants, NPV, Helicoverpa armigera, Adjuvant. Top |