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The insect associated fungi are very important due to their parasitic nature against economical important insect pests of major crops. Most of the species of entomopathogens occur everywhere in the world under different climatic conditions. Some of them occur in forest ecosystem and others live in the soils of different agroecosystem as dormant conidia.The diversity of entomopathogens in the soils of Pakistan agroecosystem varies in different areas under different cultural practices.

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