Efficacy of Metarhizium anisopliae isolate MAX-2 from Shangri-la, China under desiccation stress

BMC Microbiology

Table 1 Multiple range comparison of hosts’ mortality rates for M. anisopliae isolates at different moisture levels

Moisture levels	MAX-2 (%)	MAC-6 (%)	MAL-1 (%)	MAQ-28 (%)	F	df	P
35%	100.00?±?0a	100.00?±?0a	100.00?±?0a	95.33?±?2.08a	15.08	3, 11	0.31
30%	100.00?±?0a	83.33?±?1.53b*	74.33?±?1.53b**	61.67?±?1.53b**	445.27	3, 11	0.00
25%	92.33?±?2.08a	56.67?±?1.53c**	47.67?±?3.21c**	29.00?±?1.00c**	470.74	3, 11	0.00
20%	78.00?±?2.65b	40.33?±?0.58d**	28.00?±?2.65d**	10.67?±?1.53d**	587.11	3, 11	0.00
15%	57.33?±?2.52c	19.00?±?1.00e**	8.00?±?2.00e**	0.00?±?0.00d**	682.62	3, 11	0.00
8%	41.33?±?1.53d	4.00?±?1.00f**	0.00?±?0.00e**	0.00?±?0.00d**	1452.80	3, 11	0.00
F1	530.070	3509.562	1148.687	2663.893	-	-	-
df1	5, 17	5, 17	5, 17	5, 17	-	-	-
P1	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	-	-	-

Data are expressed as means?±?Standard deviations (SD). Within each column, different letters indicate differences significant (P < 0.05) and the same letters indicate no statistic differences. Within each row, one *means the difference is significant (P < 0.05); two *means the difference is very significant (P < 0.01); no *means no statistic difference. The values of F, df, P are results of comparison among different isolates within each row (the same moisture level). And the values of F1, df1, P1 are results of comparison among different moisture levels within each column (the same isolate).

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