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Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
Entotomopathogenic nematodes (Steinernema sp.) isolated from the soil samples in the Barak Valley of Assam, India. The nematodes were isolated by baiting technique using greater wax moth (Galleria mellonella). Soil samples were collected during rabbi and monsoon season from the different locality of Barak Valley especially from crop fields, rubber plantation, pineapple garden, tea gardens and also from rhizospheric soil of bamboo bushes. Nematodes are isolated from rhizospheric soil of Bamboo and from crop field. Only on the basis of morphological characters isolates resembles with the Steinernema sp. Female having prominent vulva, anus, females juvenile bearing before emergence; males having prominent spicule and gubernaculum; juvenile with excretory pore anterior to nerve ring, tail is slightly curved and killed the insects larvae within 48 hours of infection. This is the first report for the occurrence of entomopathogenic nematodes from this region of Assam, India.