Vol. 6, Issue 4 (2018)
Efficacy of soil sterilants and neem against plant parasitic nematodes, microarthropods and soil mycoflora in cabbage grown in pots under protected conditions
Author(s): Abhishek Rana, YS Chandel and RS Chandel
Abstract: The effect of metham sodium, dazomet and neem cake was evaluated against plant parasitic and saprophytic nematodes, mites, collembolans and fungi in cabbage crop grown in pots under polyhouse conditions. The complete reduction was observed in the population of Helicotylenchus species with metham sodium and dazomet at 30 DAT and crop end. Neem cake was found to be least effective and it showed 57.55 percent reduction in the population of Helicotylenchus species at crop end. At crop end, the number of galls varied from 0.0 to 4.00 galls/ plant in metham sodium and dazomet treatments. Saprophytic nematodes were also adversely affected by metham sodium and dazomet showing reduction in their population by 70.54 (metham sodium @ 2 ml/ pot) to 86.48 (dazomet @ 3 g/ pot) percent, whereas in neem cake, decrease in the population of saprophytic nematodes was 62.85 percent. Microarthropod population in different treatments of metham sodium and dazomet was found to decline from 44.38 (dazomet @ 3g/ pot) to 82.00 (metham sodium 2 g/ pot) percent. Among fungi, only Fusarium species has been recorded. The maximum reduction in Fusarium population was recorded in higher dose of dazomet (3 g/ pot).
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Abhishek Rana, YS Chandel, RS Chandel. Efficacy of soil sterilants and neem against plant parasitic nematodes, microarthropods and soil mycoflora in cabbage grown in pots under protected conditions. Int J Chem Stud 2018;6(4):3064-3068.
