Document Type

Article

Source of Publication

Acta Agriculturae Scandinavica Section B - Soil & Plant Science

Publication Date

5-29-2022

Abstract

This study was planned to investigate the efficacy of various concentrations of Trichoderma virens against Meloidogyne incognita in vitro. The five concentrations viz., S, S/2, S/ 10, S/25, S/50 were prepared and planned for in vitro study to test the potential of T. virens against hatching and mortality of second-staged juveniles of M. incognita. It was observed a reduction in second-staged juveniles hatching within all tested aqueous concentrations of T. virens. The second-stage juvenile mortality was also recorded in the above-given concentrations of T. virens. The maximum decrease in second-stage juveniles hatching was found in standard aqueous fungal concentration (S). Moreover, in the same T. virens concentration (S), mortality of juveniles was also recorded as highest, and was followed by S/2, S/10, S/25 and S/50. Additionally, the application of T. virens as an individual, simultaneous, and sequential order with M. incognita was also investigated in pot-grown chickpea plants and found that its use was significantly effective in suppressing root-galling disease and improved the plants' growth and physiological attributes. According to the correlation coefficient analysis, the root-knot index correlated significantly with the per cent reduction of the plants' growth and physiological attributes.

ISSN

0906-4710

Publisher

Informa UK Limited

Volume

72

Issue

1

First Page

775

Last Page

787

Disciplines

Life Sciences

Keywords

Fungal strain, Root-galling disease, Meloidogyne species, pulse crop, Management

Scopus ID

85131650573

Creative Commons License

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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yes

Open Access

yes

Open Access Type

Gold: This publication is openly available in an open access journal/series

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