Fold Scope: Vital Friend for Field Research Survey for pest biocontrolling agent

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Satish

I am Dr. Satish V Patil, from NMU, Jalgaon, India working on various aspects of Applied Microbiology, includes microbial nanoparticles , pigments, biopolymers and metabolites synthesis and application as microbicides. My major work is Mangment of Mosquitoes by using microbial pesticides, by altering of gut microbes of mosquito larvae and other agro pest.

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Fold Scope: Vital Friend for Field Research Survey for pest biocontrolling agent
The Jalgaon , is famous city for high temperature in summers Maharashtra, India is (20.997984°N 75.566711°E.) Maharashtra, India). We observed heavy infestation of Spodoptera caterpillar on neem plant, in the month of October- November 2018, whole Neem (Azadirachta indica) plant population are converted in leafless branches. To find solutions and avoid the future attack on the pesticide-resistant insect on cash crops of Jalgaon. We decided to find some natural controlling agent for the pest. As a primary step of work, We collected some larvae’s, on the field and primarily by using foldscope we observed naturally infected larvae’s and adult. We are able to isolate a naturally biocontrolling fungi which are growing on Spodoptera caterpillar larvae as well as the adult.

(Working Foldscope Team of my Lab Mr. Chandrakant Narkhede, Dr. Bhavana Mohite, Mr.Sunil Koli & Dr. Jamamtsingh Rjaput , NMU, Jalgaon )