Agricultural Science Digest
SCOPUS
  • Year: 2010
  • Volume: 30
  • Issue: 3

Antagonistic Effect of Trichoderma Strains Against Fusarium Oxysporum F. Sp. Udum Buttler Causing Wilt of Pigeon Pea

  • Author:
  • Shashi Kapoor, Ashish Jaiswal, D.N. Shukla
  • Total Page Count: 3
  • Page Number: 189 to 191

Bhargava Agriculture Laboratory. Department of Botany, University of Allahabad, Allahabad - 211 002, India.

*Email: ashish_botany@yahoo.com.

Abstract

The study revealed the antagonistic effect of Trichoderma spp. against the pathogen of Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. udum caused wilt disease of pigeon pea. Among all the bioagents, local isolate of Trichoderma viride (AI) was found to be the most promising showing maximum inhibitory effect on the mycelial growth (87.77%) of the pathogen. All bioagent were further tested as seed dressing agents for the control of wilt disease of pigeon pea. The lowest incidence of wilt (20.48%) was observed in the plots treated with local Isolates of T. viride.

Keywords

Pigeon pea, Wilt disease, Fusarium udum, Bioagent.T. viride (AI)