Various insect pests and plant disease can outbreak in a field. For the effective control of pests and plant diseases during crop cultivation, farmers simultaneously or sequentially spray various eco-friendly agricultural materials (EFAM), chemical pesticides and microbial control agents on the same fields. It was reported that many agrochemicals are harmful to entomopathogenic fungi, especially some fungicides with broad spectrum activity that are routinely applied for the control of plant diseases. In addition, some pesticides may antagonize the potential insecticidal activity and efficiency of entomopathogenic fungi. Therefore, sometimes the utilization of fungal entomopathogen in forestry and agricultural production is limited because of the undesirable interference from some fungicides and pesticides. There is little research that examines the compatibility of these EFAMs with entomopathogenic fungi and the influence of EFAMs on the control efficacy of mycopesticides. We conducted a study of influence of pretreated eco-friendly agricultural materials on control efficacy of Isaria javanica isolate against sweet potato whitefly.

• Byung Ju Lee(Agricultural Microbiology Division, National Institute of Agricultural Sciences)
• Jeong Hwa Huang(Agricultural Microbiology Division, National Institute of Agricultural Sciences)
• Tae Young Shin(Agricultural Microbiology Division, National Institute of Agricultural Sciences)
• Jin Ju Yun(Agricultural Microbiology Division, National Institute of Agricultural Sciences)
• Jeong Seon(Agricultural Microbiology Division, National Institute of Agricultural Sciences)
• Jeong Jun Kim(Agricultural Microbiology Division, National Institute of Agricultural Sciences)
• Ji Hee Han(Agricultural Microbiology Division, National Institute of Agricultural Sciences)
• Sang Yeob Lee(Agricultural Microbiology Division, National Institute of Agricultural Sciences)