Indian Journal of Nematology

A pot experiment was conducted to study the effect of Glomus fasciculatum on nutritional and biochemical changes in brinjal infested by Meloidogyne incognita. Plants inoculated with VAM alone had significantly increased plant growth parameters, nitrogen, crude protein, phosphorus, potassium, total sugar, total protein and total free amino acids contents compared to uninoculated plants and nematode inoculated plants. The plants inoculated with VAM+ Nematode after 10 days (V+N) significantly decreased the number of galls, eggmasses, and final nematode population in soil; increased nitrogen (N), crude protein, phosphorus (P), potassium (K), total sugar and total phenol, total free amino acids in the roots of brinjal compared to nematode alone, nematode prior to VAM(N+V) and VAM+nematode simultaneously (VN).