Annals of Plant Protection Sciences
  • Year: 2011
  • Volume: 19
  • Issue: 1

Management of Stemphylium blight of Garlic through chemicals

  • Author:
  • Upesh Kumar, Jitendra Singh, Prem Naresh, Ramesh Singh
  • Total Page Count: 3
  • Page Number: 126 to 128

Department of Plant Pathology, C.S. Azad University of Agriculture & Technology, Kanpur-208 002, India, < prem_praja@rediffmail.com>

Abstract

Out of ten fungicides tested, bavistin, benomyl, mancozeb, vitavax, companion, topsin-M and captan proved to be the most effective to inhibit the growth of fungus in vitro. In field spraying of mancozeb (0.25%) on garlic crop at 15 days interval gave lowest disease intensity 9.8% with highest yield (36.3 kg/plot) over control. The satisfactory results was also observed in case of clove treatment along with two foliar sprays of mancozeb (0.25%).

Keywords

Allium sativum, Fungicides, Stemphylium botryosum.