Botanicals: An Effective Tool to Check the Initial Infection of Maize Cyst Nematode, Heterodera zeae on Maize as Seed Treatment Baheti B.L.1, Meena K.K.1, Chandrawat B.S.1,*, Khandelwal S.K.2, Singh Dilip3 1Department of Nematology, Rajasthan College of Agriculture Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture and Technology, Udaipur-313001, Raj 2MBBT, Rajasthan College of Agriculture Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture and Technology, Udaipur-313001, Raj 3Agronomy, Rajasthan College of Agriculture Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture and Technology, Udaipur-313001, Raj *email: brijrcanemat@gmail.com
Online published on 2 January, 2017. Abstract An experiment was carried out to test the efficacy of neem (Azadirachta indica), jatropha (Jatropha curcas) and lantana (Lantana camara) leaves powder for the management of maize cyst nematode, Heterodera zeae on maize. Various leaves powder were used at 5, 10 and 20% w/w as seed treatment. Experimental findings showed that neem leaves powder at 20 per cent w/w was found most effective to increase plant growth parameters i.e. shoot weight (19.06g) and root weight (15.22g) of maize in nematode infested plants. The said treatment significantly decreased nematode reproduction factors viz. cyst per 100cc soil (14.20), cyst per plant (15.60) and number of H. zeae larvae per 100cc soil (426.00) as compared to check followed by jatropha leaves powder at 20% and neem leaves powder at 10%. Top Keywords Seed treatment, Heterodera zeae, Neem, Lantana, Water hyacinth, Maize. Top |