Depanment of Nematology, TamiL Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore-641 003.
The effect of chopped leaves of bougainvillea, ocimum, onion, prosopis, calotropis and subabul @ 5 g/kgs oil was studied against the root-knot nematode on tomato and reniform nematode on greengram. All the leaf products tested were able to enhance the plant growth and suppress the final nematode population in the soil. Among them prosopis was superior followed by subabul, calotropis and bougainvillea.
Meloidogyne incognita, tomato, Rotylenchulus reniformis, greengram, control
