1Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology, Chatha-180 009, India
2Khalsa College of Veterinary, Amritsar-143 001, India
Division of Plant Pathology, Faculty of Agriculture, Khalsa College of Agriculture, Amritsar-143 001, India
*E-mail: Seethiyamahajan@gmail.com
Online published on 22 September, 2023.
Fortnightly surveys of different chickpea growing areas of Jammu sub-tropics revealed that overall disease incidence of 15.64 and 16.86 per cent, during Rabi seasons of 2016-17 and 2017-18, respectively. Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. ciceri was isolated from wilt infected chickpea plants and soil samples collected from chickpea fields of Jammu sub-tropics. Pathogenicity test of different isolates of Foc exhibited disease incidence (6.26-66.65%) in susceptible cultivar (C-235). Wilt symptoms in adult plants were quite common at flowering and pod stages. The affected plants showed characteristic wilting viz., drooping of the petioles, rachis and leaflets.
Prevalence, Chickpea, Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. ciceri, Pathogenicity
