Parthenium hysterophorus, Fungi, Control Potential.
Abstract
Pathogenicity of nineteen fungi isolated earlier from living and diseased parts of exotic weed Parthenium hysterophorus L., in Madhya Pradesh was tested. Colletotrichum gloeosporioides, Alternaria alternata, A. dianthi, A. macrosporus, Myrothecium roridum, Fusarium oxysporum, F. moniliforme, Phoma herbarum and Bipolaris sp. were found to cause considerable damage to the weed under laboratory conditions.