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Advances in Life Sciences
Year : 2016, Volume : 5, Issue : 9
First page : ( 3591) Last page : ( 3593)
Print ISSN : 2278-3849. Online ISSN : 2278-4705.

Efficacy of Different Plant Extracts against Alternaria alternata Causing Ripe Fruit Rot of Chilli

Rakholia D.J., Bhaliya C. M.*, Rajani V. V., Patel P. K.

Department of Plant Pathology, College of Agriculture, Junagadh Agricultural University, Junagadh-362 001

*email: chirag_bhaliya@yahoo.co.in

Online published on 23 December, 2016.

Abstract

Chilli (Capsicum annum L.) is one of the most important spice crops grown in India. Since last few years chilli crop in Rajkot district of Gujarat was severely affected in scattered pocket by ripe fruit rot problem which causes considerable crop loss. Looking to the seriousness of the disease, present investigation was undertaken to find out suitable phytoextracts for minimizing the crop losses. The result of the various phytoextracts evaluated against Alternaria alternata revealed that garlic cloves extract proved to be the best sources of plant origin for the reduction of radial growth of fungal pathogen. Garlic cloves extract was highly inhibitory to the fungal growth followed by ardusi leaf extract and gave 58.96 and 33.83 percent inhibition respectively.

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Keywords

Chilli, Alternaria alternata, Phytoextracts.

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