Table 2 Presentation of manufacturers in Africa and commercialized products
From: Toward the efficient use of Beauveria bassiana in integrated cotton insect pest management
Manufacturer | Registration | Products | Name of products | Brief description of products | Role/Disease or target pest controlling |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Plant Health Products (Pty) Ltd. | South Africa | Biofungicide & Biostimulant | Eco-T | Contains Trichoderma asperellum (previously known as T. harzianum) | - Management of common root diseases including Fusarium, Rhizoctonia, Pythium and Phytophthora |
-Eco-T stimulates plant root growth, improves germination offering faster seedling development and promotes healthier, more productive plants | |||||
Plant Health Products (Pty) Ltd. | South Africa | Biofungicide & Biostimulant | Eco-T Ezi-Flo | Eco-T in a graphite/talc lubricant formulation, suitable for use with mechanical planters (Eco-T Ezi-Flo) | Management of common root diseases including Fusarium, Rhizoctonia, Pythium and Phytophthora |
-Eco-T stimulates plant root growth, improves germination offering faster seedling development and promotes healthier, more productive plants | |||||
Plant Health Products (Pty) Ltd. | South Africa | Aerial Biofungicide | Eco-77 (T-77) | Aerial biofungicide | -Effective against Botrytis on leaves, flowers and fruit for cucumbers and tomatoes and grapevine |
Eco-77 is a wettable powder (WP) concentrate of a beneficial aerial Trichoderma atroviride (previously known as T. harzianum) strain | - Eco-77 colonizes pruning wounds and prevents pathogens like Botrytis from gaining entrance to the vineyard | ||||
Plant Health Products (Pty) Ltd. | South Africa | Bio-insecticide | Eco-Bb (Bb-Protec) | A concentrated wettable powder formulation of the entomopathogenic fungus, Beauveria bassiana. It is non-toxic, residue free and may be used right up to harvest | Eco-Bb infects and kills whitefly, spider mite, Fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda), False codling moth Thaumatotibia (Cryptophlebia leucotreta), Tuta absoluta and various other agricultural insect pests |
Plant Health Products (Pty) Ltd. | South Africa | Bacterial inoculant | -Eco-Rhiz Soya | Eco-Rhiz Soya and Eco-Rhiz Lucerne are both biofertilizer, their bacterial inoculant containing Bradyrhizobium japonicum strain WB74 and Sinorhizobium meliloti strain RF14 respectively | Their bacterial inoculant improve fixing nitrogen in the root nodules of soya bean (soybean) and Lucerne (Alfalfa) |
-Eco-Rhiz Lucerne | |||||
Biological Control Products SA (Pty) Ltd | South Africa | -Bio fertilizers | Not specified | Not specified | -bio fertilizers that help in keeping and sustaining the biological population in soil, as well as aid in the nutrient management of plants |
- Soil inoculants | |||||
-Plant stimulants | - soil inoculants, which are a range of micro-organisms that build and replenish the biological population in soil | ||||
- Bio-pesticides | |||||
-plant stimulants, which are a range of products that assist plants through periods of stress, as well as optimize plant development during the critical growth stages | |||||
-and bio-pesticides that control plant pests and diseases | |||||
Biological Control Products SA (Pty) Ltd | South Africa | Bio-pesticide | Bb Weevil | CP formulation of Beauveria bassiana conidia | Used for the control of Coleoptera (Curculionidae) |
Biological Control Products SA (Pty) Ltd | South Africa | Bio-pesticide | Bb Plus | WP formulation of Beauveria bassiana conidia | Used for the control of Hemiptera (Aphididae), Acari (Tetranychidae) |
BASF South Africa (Pty) Ltd | South Africa | Less bio-pesticide and more chemicals, plastics and agricultural products | BroadBand® | Emulsifiable spore concentrate (EC) of Beauveria bassiana strain PPRI5339, BroadBand® contains 4e9 CFU·mL−1. It a fungal contact insecticide, derived from a hardy African strain, isolated from the tortoise beetle and active at all stages of the life cycle of insects – eggs, larvae, juveniles and adults. | BroadBand® – a fungal contact insecticide for the effective reduction of target insects on crops including Plutella xylostella, Thaumatotibia leucotret, Aonidiella aurantii, Tetranychus urticae, Phthorimaea opercullella, stinkbug, thrips, whiteflies. Its effectively controls the potato tuber moth (Phthorimaea opercullella) on potatoes, red spider mite (Tetranychus urticae) and whitefly on tomatoes and thrips on onions |
Dudutech Ltd. | Kenya | Beneficial fungi | Beauvitech®WP | A wettable powder (WP) formulation containing spores of Beauveria bassiana strain J25 | Target challenge: aphids, coffee berry borer, leafminers, mealybugs, scale insects, thrips, whiteflies |
Crop: coffee, flowers, fruits, vegetable | |||||
Dudutech Ltd. | Kenya | Beneficial fungi | Lecatech®WP | A biological insecticide containing Lecanicillium lecanii, a naturally occurring entomopathogenic fungus that is effective against whiteflies | Target challenge: aphids, leafminers, mealybugs, scale insects, thrips, whiteflies |
Crop: coffee, Flowers, Fruits, Vegetables | |||||
Dudutech Ltd. | Kenya | Beneficial fungi | Mytech®WP | A biological nematicide based on Paecilomyces lilacinus a naturally occurring nematophagous fungus for control of plant parasitic nematodes | Target challenge: enhanced root development, plant parasitic nematodes |
Crop: cereals, coffee, flowers, fruits, ea, vegetables | |||||
Dudutech Ltd. | Kenya | Beneficial fungi | Trichotech®WP | Contains spores of Trichoderma asperellum an antagonistic fungus that is used globally for control of soil borne fungal diseases | Target challenge: Armillaria, Botrytis Blight, Crown Gall, Fusarium, Pythium, Rhizoctonia, Root Rots, Sclerotinia, Stem Cankers |
Crop: cereals, flowers, fruits, tea, vegetables | |||||
Dudutech Ltd. | Kenya | Beneficial insects and predators | Amblytech C® | Contains Amblyseius cucumeris a predatory mite used for the management of Thrips | Target challenge: broad mite, cyclamen mite, red spider mite, thrips larvae |
Crop: flowers, fruits, tea, vegetables | |||||
Dudutech Ltd. | Kenya | Beneficial insects and predators | Amblytech® | Contains Amblyseius californicus, a predatory mite used for the management of red spider mites | Target challenge: red spider mite |
Crop: flowers, tea, vegetables | |||||
Dudutech Ltd. | Kenya | Beneficial insects and predators | Diglytech® | Contains living Diglyphus isae, a parasitic wasp that is ectoparasitic i.e. develops nearby, but outside the leaf miner larvae | Target challenge: leafminers |
Crop: flowers, vegetables | |||||
Dudutech Ltd. | Kenya | Beneficial insects and predators | Hypotech® | Contains the predatory mite Hypoaspis miles used for the management of thrips, fungus gnats, leaf miner, sciarid flies and shore flies | Target challenge: bulb mites, leafminers, sciarid flies, thrips |
Crop: flowers, vegetables | |||||
Dudutech Ltd. | Kenya | Beneficial insects and predators | Phytotech® | Contains a predatory mite Phytoseiulus persimilis marketed for management of the two-spotted mite (Tetranychus urticae) | Target challenge: red spider mite, two spotted mite |
Crop: flowers, fruits, vegetables | |||||
Dudutech Ltd. | Kenya | Beneficial nemetodes | Nematech S® SP | A biological insecticide containing infective juveniles of Steinernema feltiae (isolate DDT-D2) in an inert carrier | Target challenge: leafminers, sciarid flies, thrips |
Crop: flowers, vegetables | |||||
Dudutech Ltd. | Kenya | Beneficial nemetodes | Nematech H® | A biological insecticide containing infective juveniles of Heterorhabditis bacteriophora (isolate DDT- F27) in an inert carrier | Target challenge: caterpillars, cutworms, leafminers |
Crop: flowers, vegetables | |||||
Dudutech Ltd. | Kenya | Beneficial nemetodes | Slugtech® SP | A biological molluscicide containing infective juveniles of Phasmarhabditis hermaphrodita (isolate DDT M1) in an inert carrier | Target challenge: slugs, snails |
Crop: flowers, vegetables | |||||
Dudutech Ltd. | Kenya | Beneficial virus | Helitech | Helicoverpa armigera nucleopolyhedrovirus (HearSNPV) isolated from nature in Kenya and has not been genetically altered | Target challenge: Helicoverpa armigera |
Crop: vegetables | |||||
Dudutech Ltd. | Kenya | Botanics | NEMguard® | A powerful polysulphide solution for the management of plant parasitic nematodes | Target challenge: plant parasitic nematodes |
Crop: lowers, fruits, vegetables | |||||
Dudutech Ltd. | Kenya | Botanics | NEMROC® | Azadirachtin | Target challenge: plant parasitic nematodes |
Crop: flowers, egetables | |||||
Dudutech Ltd. | Kenya | Traps and pheromones | Delta Trap® | Traps for control of flying insect pests. These traps are cost-effective, readily assembled traps, are easy to use enabling fast implementation for a quick infestation count | Target challenge: diamonback moth, Duponchelia, false coddling moth, Tuta absoluta |
Crop: flowers, vegetables | |||||
Dudutech Ltd. | Kenya | Traps and pheromones | Rolltech Trap® | Traps for control of flying insect pests. This product comes in Blue or Yellow depending on the target pests | Target challenge: aphids, leafminers, sciarid flies, thrips, whiteflies |
Crop: flowers, egetables | |||||
Dudutech Ltd. | Kenya | Traps and pheromones | -Blue STICKTECH® Yellow STICKTECH® | Blue STICKTECH® and Yellow STICKTECH® cards are used as the “attract and trap” technique for control of flying insect pests | Target challenge for Blue sticktech: thrips |
Target challenge for Yellow sticktech: aphids, false coddling moth, leafminers, mealybugs, sciarid flies, whiteflies | |||||
Crop: flowers, vegetables | |||||
Dudutech Ltd. | Kenya | Traps and pheromones | Duponchelia® | These lures are rubber strips impregnated with a synthetic replica of the Duponchelia female pheromone | Target challenge: Duponchelia |
(Pheromone) | Crop: flowers, vegetables | ||||
Dudutech Ltd. | Kenya | Traps and pheromones | Tuta Absoluta® | Rubber strip lures, impregnated with a synthetic replica of the Tuta absoluta female pheromone | Target challenge: Tuta absoluta |
(Pheromone) | Crop: vegetables | ||||
Dudutech Ltd. | Kenya | Traps and pheromones | Planococus® | Mealybug lures are rubber strips impregnated with a synthetic replica of the mealy bug female pheromone | Target challenge: mealybugs |
(Pheromone) | Crop: flowers, vegetables |