Trends in Biosciences
  • Year: 2014
  • Volume: 7
  • Issue: 23

Bio-priming for Management of Seed-borne Pathogens of Cotton

  • Author:
  • K. Sri Ananth, M. S. L. Rao
  • Total Page Count: 3
  • Page Number: 3852 to 3854

Department of Plant Pathology, College of Agriculture, University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad – 580 005, Karnataka (India)

*Email: sriananth040@gmail.com

Online published on 13 January, 2015.

Abstract

Pseudomonas fluorescens and Trichoderma harzianum at 0.8 per cent concentration along with priming agents were tested for their efficacy in the management of seedborne infections of cotton (Bunny-Bt). Among all the treatments, seed treatment with P. fluorescens at 0.8 per cent + Jelly and T. harzianum at 0.8 per cent + Jelly showed least seed infection of 13.30 per cent and 11.74 per cent with maximum per cent germination of 92.30 and 90.65 and vigour index of 2688.43 and 2725.28.

Keywords

P. fluorescens, T. harzianum, seed infection, per cent germination, vigour index