Annals of Plant Protection Sciences
  • Year: 2008
  • Volume: 16
  • Issue: 2

Effective Management of Stem Rot of Groundnut through Application of Pseudomonas fluorescens*

  • Author:
  • M. Johnson1, P. Narayan Reddy1, D Rajaram Reddy2
  • Total Page Count: 5
  • Page Number: 428 to 432

1Agricultural Research Station, Anantapur - 515 001.

2Acharya N.G. Ranga Agril. Univ., Rajendranagar, Hyderabad - 500 030, India.

*Part of Ph. D thesis submitted by the senior author

Abstract

The treatments involving Pseudomonas fluorescens with or without tryptophan along with and without FYM were superior in decreasing the stem rot incidence (22.8 & 25.2%). In addition, the same treatments gave increased pod yield (1441 & 1372 kg ha−1) and haulm yield (3045 & 2953 kg ha−1) besides decreasing pods left over in soil (118 & 117 kg ha−1) and leaf drop (259 & 280 kg ha−1) than other treatments.

Keywords

Arachis hypogea, Pseudomonas fluorescens, Sclerotium rolfsii, Tryptophan