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Agriculture · Q477

Agricultural Entomology

Graduate and Post Graduate · Agriculture · question 477

Q477

Commercially granulosis virus (GV) used for the control of

A.
Helieoverpa armigera
B.
Spodoptera litura
C.
Chilo infuseatellus
Answer
D.
None of these

Answer: Option C

Solution

Answer: Option C
Solution:
Commercially granulosis virus (GV) is used for the control of Chilo infuseatellus.
Granuloviruses (GVs) are rod-shaped, double-stranded DNA viruses of the family Baculoviridae which infect a wide range of Lepidoptera and a few Hymenoptera. These viruses cause a highly infectious disease in the larvae of susceptible species.
Granulosis virus is commonly utilized as a carrier for insecticides, in an attempt to reduce potato tuber moth Phthorimaea operculella (Zeller) (PTM) damage at harvest.