%0 Journal Article %T Evaluaci¨®n de cepas nativas de Bacillus thuringiensis Berliner para el control de Heliothis virescens Fabricius en el cultivo del tabaco en Cuba %A Carreras Sol¨ªs %A Bertha %A Rodr¨ªguez Batista %A Dayam¨ª %A Piedra D¨ªaz %A Felicia %J Fitosanidad %D 2009 %I Instituto de Investigaciones de Sanidad Vegetal %X liquid culture of eight bacillus thuringiensis strains were evaluated on second instar larvae of heliothis virescensfabricius. lbt-111 strain showed 50% of mortality the second day of experiment. a second bioassay with this strain allowed to determinate the cl50 against heliothis virescens, which was 2.6 x 107 spores/ml-1 and the highest correlation (0.95) was obtained with the data of 48 h. the confidence limits (p 0.05) in the dosis-probit correlation line showed narrow margins with the data of 48 h, which indicate the accuracy in the calculation of the cl50. %K bacillus thuringiensis %K heliothis virescens %K biological control %K cl50. %U http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1562-30092009000400009&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en