Vol. 10, Special Issue 12 (2021)

Author(s):
Archana Negi, Jitendra Singh and Pradeep Kumar

Abstract:
The glasshouse experiments were conducted for evaluation of inoculating techniques and various toxicants against Xanthomonas axonopodis pv. citri at, Department of Plant Pathology, College of Agriculture, G.B.P.U.A. &T., Pantnagar. The experiments were laid out in Completely Randomized Design (CRD) in glass house. In first experiment various inoculating methods were tested, among which the highest number of lesions were produced in case of carborandom abbaration method with 32.07% disease severity and was found to be most effective for inoculating the test pathogen. While in second experiment evaluation of certain chemicals, antibiotics, bioagents and their combinations were tested for the Management of citrus. The data revealed that the combination of blitox-50 and strepocycline was most effective and significantly superior among all the treatments with maximum (49.91%) decrease in disease severity followed by streptocycline (45.43%).