Plant Disease Research

  • Year: 2015
  • Volume: 30
  • Issue: 2

Comparative production of pectinases by Fusarium verticilloides (Gibberella fujikuroi) isolates causing Bakanae disease of basmati rice

  • Author:
  • Jaspal Kaur1,, P.P.S. Pannu, Shikha Sethi, Anita Puyam
  • Total Page Count: 4
  • DOI:
  • Page Number: 123 to 126

1Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana-141 004

Department of Plant Pathology, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana-141 004

Abstract

Pectinases production by 30 different isolates of Fusarium verticilloides causing Bakanae disease of rice was estimated qualitatively as well as quantitatively. Test for qualitative estimation by in-vitro plate assay gave positive results for all the test isolates. Quantitative estimation of pectinases revealed that all isolates produced pectinases but the amount of enzyme varied from 0.02–0.11 U/ml/min.

Keywords

Pectinases, Fusarium verticilloides, Bakanae disease, foot rot disease, basmati rice