Integrated management of root Knot disease complex of Brinjal by using fungal bioagent

In systematic survey a disease complex was found which caused disease complex resulting in heavy damage of brinjal crop caused by root knot nematode Meloidogyne incognita and root will fungus Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici. Sevral sprophytic fungi were found associated with the rhizosphere soil viz. Trichoderma hazarium, Aspergillus terreus, A. fumigatus, A. niger, Cladosporium oxysporum, Penicillium oxalium, Aspergillus species which was not egg parasitic but exihibited high toxicity (85–100%) to second stage juveniles (J2), C. oxysporum parasitized the egg by 84% but in effective against J2, while the eggs and juveniles of M. incoginita get effected by T. hazarium by 80% and 72% respectively. The soil is amendment of vasicular mycorrhiza by talc based formulation of T. hazarium @8g Kg-¹ (2*10⁶ spore load) along with leaf powder (0.05% w/w) of Tinospora longifolia and vasicular arbuscular mycorrhiza (Glomus fasciculatum) @ 100 chlamydospore per kg soil.