Vol. 12, Issue 3 (2023)

Author(s):
S Dilip Kumar Reddy, SL Godara, Ashok Kumar Meena, Vijay Shree Gahlot and Nitika Kumari

Abstract:
Brinjal is one of the important tropical vegetable crops in India. Sclerotinia stem rot of brinjal was found to be a serious disease of brinjal that causes damage partial or complete wilting of the plant. In the field experiment, seedling treatment and soil drenching with fungicides (tebuconazole 50%+ trifloxystrobin 25% WG and carbendazim 12% + mancozeb 63% WP) and soil application of bioagents (T. harzianum and P. fluorescens) were alone and in combination were used. Seedling treatment in combination with soil drench of fungicide tebuconazole 50%+ trifloxystrobin 25% WG gave the minimum disease incidence and highest per cent disease control, and highest yield over other treatments followed by seedling treatment in combination with soil drenching of carbendazim 12% + mancozeb 63% WP. Least effective was found in case of soil application of Pseudomonas fluorescens.