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Effect of TNAU-Pf1 Seed Biopriming and Foliar Spray of Newer Fungicides on the Incidence of Leaf Blight of Sunflower


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1 Plant Pathology, TNAU, Coimbatore – 3, Tamil Nadu, India
2 Agronomy, TNAU, Coimbatore - 3, Tamil Nadu, India
3 PBG, TNAU, Coimbatore - 3, Tamil Nadu, India
4 Department of Oilseeds, TNAU, Coimbatore - 3, Tamil Nadu, India
 

Seed biopriming followed by foliar spray of different newer fungicide molecules to manage sunflower leaf spot under field conditions have been tried in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India for three consecutive years (2014-2016). The result indicated that among the different treatments tested, seed biopriming with TNAU Pseudomonas fluorescens (Pf1) @ 10g/kg seeds followed by spray of Hexaconazole @ 0.1% at 45 days and P. fluorescens (Pf1) @ 1.0% at 60 DAS showed less severity of Alternaria leaf spot (25.7) with the highest yield of 1471kg/ha against the control (47.7) which recorded yield of 1111kg/ha. In addition, seed biopriming promoted higher and uniform seed germination under field conditions.

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Newer Molecule, Leaf Spot/Blight, Seed Biopriming, Seed Yield, Sunflower.
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Authors

L. Rajendran
Plant Pathology, TNAU, Coimbatore – 3, Tamil Nadu, India
C. Gopalakrishnan
Plant Pathology, TNAU, Coimbatore – 3, Tamil Nadu, India
T. Selvakumar
Agronomy, TNAU, Coimbatore - 3, Tamil Nadu, India
N. Manivannan
PBG, TNAU, Coimbatore - 3, Tamil Nadu, India
P. L. Viswanathan
Department of Oilseeds, TNAU, Coimbatore - 3, Tamil Nadu, India

Abstract


Seed biopriming followed by foliar spray of different newer fungicide molecules to manage sunflower leaf spot under field conditions have been tried in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India for three consecutive years (2014-2016). The result indicated that among the different treatments tested, seed biopriming with TNAU Pseudomonas fluorescens (Pf1) @ 10g/kg seeds followed by spray of Hexaconazole @ 0.1% at 45 days and P. fluorescens (Pf1) @ 1.0% at 60 DAS showed less severity of Alternaria leaf spot (25.7) with the highest yield of 1471kg/ha against the control (47.7) which recorded yield of 1111kg/ha. In addition, seed biopriming promoted higher and uniform seed germination under field conditions.

Keywords


Newer Molecule, Leaf Spot/Blight, Seed Biopriming, Seed Yield, Sunflower.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18311/jbc%2F2017%2F16185