Subgroups of Baculoviridae
Baculoviridae had 3 subgroups
i. Nuclear polyhedrosis (nucleopolyhedrosis) viruses (NPVs)
- Virus after enter on insect attack on midgut cell, break the cell of midgut cell and release to haemolymph.
- Insect turn into milky or white color and insects show less appetite, climbing away, far away from food.
- It is used to control alfalfa Caterpillar, cabbage looper, tobacco caterpillar, and Gram pod borer, and soybean looper, Diamondback month.
ii. Granulosis viruses (GVs)
- It is used to control Potato tuber month, Codling moths etc.
iii. Nuclear viruses (NOVs): non-occulated rod shaped