(Brief repart) First Report of Verticillium epiphytum on Thrips tabaci from Iran

Document Type : Research Article

Authors

• S. Fadayivatan
• Gh. moravvaj
• javad Karimi

Ferdowsi University of Mashhad

10.22067/jpp.v29i2.33285

Abstract

The entomopathogenic fungus, Verticillium epiphytum was isolated from the infected specimens of Thrips tabaci collected in Mashhad in April 2011. The fungus has been previously reported from rusts and sugar beet cyst nematode Heterodera schachtii. This is the first record of V. epiphytum on T. tabaci in the world.

Keywords

• Entomopathogenic fungus
• Thrips
• Verticillium epiphytum

20.1001.1.20084749.1394.29.2.16.1

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