The Potential of Antagonistic Organisms for Bio-Control of Neovossia indica Causing Karnal Bunt of Wheat

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Authors

  • Division of Plant Pathology, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi - 110012 ,IN
  • Division of Plant Pathology, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi - 110012 ,IN
  • Division of Plant Pathology, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi - 110012 ,IN

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18311/jbc/1995/7631

Keywords:

Wheat, Karnal Bunt, Biological Control, Trichoderma spp., Gliocladium spp., Bacillus subtilis.

Abstract

Neovossia indica (Mitra) Mundkur, causing Karnal bunt of wheat is mainly a soil-borne pathogen, whose teliospores germinate and produce a crop of allantoid secondary sporidia, which become air-borne and cause infection (Dhaliwal and Singh, 1986). Seed treatment and foliar spray fungicides have been tested to control the disease (Singh et al., 1985, 1991).