Ecofriendly Management of Seedling Diseases of Chickpea (Cicer arietinum)
Farid Ahmed *
Horticulture Division, Bangladesh Institute of Nuclear Agriculture, BAU Campus, Mymensingh-2202, Bangladesh.
Mahbuba Kaniz Hasna
Plant Pathology Division, Bangladesh Institute of Nuclear Agriculture, BAU Campus, Mymensingh-2202, Bangladesh.
Md. Babul Akter
Bangladesh Institute of Nuclear Agriculture, Sub-Station, Barishal, Bangladesh.
Md. Tanjilur Rahman Mondal
Bangladesh Institute of Nuclear Agriculture, Sub-Station, Rangpur, Bangladesh.
K. M. Eadun Nabi
Plant Pathology Division, Bangladesh Institute of Nuclear Agriculture, BAU Campus, Mymensingh-2202, Bangladesh.
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
The experiment was carried out in the field of Plant Pathology Department, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh, Bangladesh to determine the effect of BARI-biofertilizer and Integrated Pest Management (IPM) biopesticide for controlling foot and root rot diseases of chickpea. It was observed that both BARI-Biofertilizer and IPM biopesticide resulted significantly lower disease incidence of seedlings of the test pulse over the control. Soil treatment with BARI-Biofertilizer resulted the lowest disease incidence of chickpea var. Hyprosola, Binasola-2, Binasola-3 and Binasola-4 at 20 DAS (Days after sowing) that displayed reduction of disease incidence up to 83.77%, 54.48%, 70.76% and 71.45% respectively over control. While at 28 DAS, showedup to 82.82%, 71.92%, 84.72% and 68.39%, respectively, reduction of disease incidence over control. At 35 DAS, exhibited up to 79.91%, 73.18%, 81.32% and 73.44%, respectively, reduction of disease incidence over control. BARI-biofertilizer and IPM biopesticide increased fresh weight of plant, number of nodules per plant and fresh weight of nodules per plant.
Keywords: Seedling diseases, chickpea, Cicer arietinum, plant pathology.