Application of Ampellomyces quisqualis and some Non-Chemical Measures for Managing Powdery Mildew Disease: A Review Kumhar Kishor Chand1,*, Singh Dalvinder Pal2, Sharma Bajrang Lal2, Kumar Anil1, Nisha Sam Nirmala3, Babu Azariah4 1Deendayal Upadhyay Centre of Excellence for Organic Farming, Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, Haryana, India 2Forage Section, Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, Haryana, India 3Department of Biotechnology, Veh Tech Rangarajan Dr. Sangunthala R&D Institute of Science and Technology, Avadi, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India 4Tea Research Association, North Bengal Regional Research and Development Centre, Nagrakata, Jalpaiguri, West Bengal, India *Corresponding author: kishorkumarc786@hau.ac.in (ORCID ID: 0000-0003-1250-9464)
Paper No. 1085 Online Published on 16 October, 2023. Abstract Powdery mildew is one of the economically important diseases. It causes huge crop losses by adversely affecting quantity as well as quality of several cereals, pulses, vegetable, ornamental, fruit crops. There are certain genera of fungal domain namely species of Erysiphe, Microsphaera, Phyllactinia, Podosphaera, Sphaerotheca, Uncinula etc. The disease primarily infects the aerial plant parts and poses a negative impact on physiological activities. It can effectively be managed through the application of antagonists especially Ampellomyces quisqualis and some other means of on non-chemical nature like milk, natural sulfur, potassium bicarbonate, sodium bicarbonate, metal salts, oils, neem oil, sesame oil, compost tea, and involvement of genes in disease resistance event. This review paper limelight in a precise way the various aspects related to the pathogenic and its antagonist fungi. It deals with updated information of powdery mildew genera with peculiar characteristics. History, biology, infection mechanism, life cycle, ecology, host spectrum, and occurrence of A. quisqualis is mentioned in detail. Highlights • Powdery mildew disease of various crops is of great importance due to causing crop losses, under organic/natural crop production system it can be managed through A. quisqualis, which is natural fungus that has no issues alike synthesis fungicides. Hence, it could be a safer alternate to handle this disease. Top Keywords Powdery mildew, Ampellomyces quisqualis, Host spectrum, Mode of action, Ecology, Non-chemical measures. Top |