Effect of Leaf Litters and Soils on Viability of Entomopathogenic Fungi Beauveria bassiana (Bals.) Vuill.docVIP

HAYATI Journal of Biosciences, September 2008, p 93-98 ISSN: 1978-3019 Vol. 15, No. 3 Effect of Leaf Litters and Soils onViability of Entomopathogenic Fungi Beauveria bassiana (Bals.) Vuill , YUNIMAR , SEMPURNAGINTING LISDARIDWANSUDIRMAN1?, YUSMANIPRAYOGO2 2 2 1 Department of Biology, Bogor Agricultural University, Darmaga Campus, Bogor 16680, Indonesia; Research Center for Bioresources and Biotechnology (PPSHB), Bogor Agricultural University, Darmaga Campus, Bogor 16680, Indonesia 2 Study Program of Entomology and Phytopathology (ENT-FIT), Graduate School, Bogor Agricultural University, Darmaga Campus, Bogor 16680, Indonesia Received March 24, 2008/Accepted September 22, 2008 Viability of Beauveria bassiana is extremely low due to toxic compounds in soils. This research was aimed to study the effect of four groups of media on viability of B. bassiana Bb-Pb2. The first group was leaf litters of onion, flowering white cabbage, cabbage, and chinese mustard, respectively; the second group was the soils containing decomposed residues of each plant of the first group; the third group was the mixtures of each media of both groups above (1:1), and the fourth group was natural top soil as a control. Each plastic bag filled with one kg of each medium was inoculated with ten ml of B. bassiana conidia (10 /ml of concentration) and incubated in open area for 8 weeks. The results showed that all leaf 6 litters of those plants and their compost soils affected the fungal viability. The highest decreasing number of colony was found on onion’s leaf litters, soil containing of decomposed onion, and the mixtures of both media. The treated B. bassiana showed significant reducing abilities of growth, conidia production and conidia germination on PDA media, except the one of control. It is suggested that the Bb-Pb2 isolate mig