Journal of the Indian Potato Association

  • Year: 1977
  • Volume: 4
  • Issue: 1

Effect of crop rotation on the potato black scurf incidence

  • Author:
  • S. K. Bhattacharyya1, V. K. Bahal2, B. S. Bist1
  • Total Page Count: 4
  • DOI:
  • Page Number: 1 to 4

Abstract

Black scurf incidence on potatoes was significantly reduced when maize or sunnhemp crops were grown in a long term rotation. Rotation with cowpea increased infection substantially. The population of saprophytic fungi and bacteria in the soil increased considerably in all the rotations tested, highest being with maize and sunnhemp. The populations of Penicillium spp. were more in soil cropped with maize or sunnhemp as compared with other crops or fallow.