Plant Disease Research

  • Year: 2009
  • Volume: 24
  • Issue: 2

Spore load of Tilletia indica and other associated fungi under different tillage and planting systems from soils of wheat based cropping sequences

  • Author:
  • Kamaldeep Singh, Indu Sharma, Hari Ram, R.C. Sharma, D. S. Kaler
  • Total Page Count: 5
  • DOI:
  • Page Number: 109 to 113

Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana-141004.

Online published on 25 November, 2011.

Abstract

Teliospores load (8700 spores/100 g soil) of Tilletia indica and cfu (3 x104/g soil) of fungi were higher under maize-wheat cropping sequence at Hoshiarpur whereas at Ludhiana teliospore load (8813 spores/100 g soil) and cfu (6.2 x104/g soil) were observed to be more in soybean-wheat rotation with tillage practices of zero tillage + wheat straw in Kharif and zero tillage during Rabi season. The fungi detected were Penicillium spp., Aspergillus spp., Fusarium spp., Bacillus spp., Drechslera sorokiniana, Alternaria spp., Rhizopus spp. and Curvularia spp.

Keywords

Wheat, crop sequence, teliospores load, Tilletia indica,