Department of Nematology, Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology, Bhubaneswar-751 003, India.
Maximum reduction in height and weight of shoot and root of betelvine cv. Godibangla was observed in simultaneous inoculations of nematode with fungus and bacterium. Incidence of root rot was noticed in all the combined treatments, without showing any significant difference. The nematode population in the soil decreased to the maximum when the root-knot nematode was inoculated at 3 weeks after fungus and bacterium inoculation.
Meloidogyne incognito, Sclerotium rolfsii, Xanthomonas betlicola, root-knot, root rot, betelevine
