Annals of Plant Protection Sciences

  • Year: 2014
  • Volume: 22
  • Issue: 2

Effect of amalgerol and tebuconazole on tikka leaf spot and rust of Groundnut

  • Author:
  • Shaista Rahman, Jayanta Tarafdar, Santosh Kumar1,, Amarendra Kumar1
  • Total Page Count: 3
  • DOI:
  • Page Number: 355 to 357

Department of Plant Pathology, Faculty of Agriculture, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Mohanpur, Nadia - 741 252, India

1Department of Plant Pathology, Bihar Agricultural University, Sabour, Bhagalpur-813 210, India

Abstract

The results revealed that combination of tebuconazole 25EC + amalgerol @ 500ml and 2000ml/ha exhibited the best to control the diseases as well as improved groundnut crop health. Two applications of tebuconazole 25EC + amalgerol @ 500ml and 2000ml/ha gave very effective control of tikka leaf spot and rust and where terminal PDI was 06.1 and 09.1, respectively. Amalgerol regulating the disease incidence was environmentally safe and economically beneficial. Results also indicated that amalgerol in combination with tebuconazole offered resistance to the invasion of disease causing pathogen.

Keywords

Arachis hypogaea, Cercospora arachidicola, Puccinia aracidis