Abstract
Beauveria bassiana is an entomopathogen that has the ability to control agricultural crop pests. The purpose of this study was to find local B. bassiana from various rhizosphere of agricultural plants in Riau Province, Indonesia using insect baiting techniques. Isolation is carried out in several rhizosphere in plants such as oil palm, chili and rice. The results showed that isolate B. bassiana from oil palm plantations showed a faster time of infection in the test larvae of 3 days and 100% mortality, time to grow on PDA medium 2 days and conidia density 4.87 × 107 con/ml.
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