Chickpea (Cicer arietinum) is one of the world's major legume crops and suffers substantial damage from collar rot disease incited by Sclerotium rolfsii Sacc., a soil-borne pathogen. The holistic management of this pathogen is possible by adopting through integration of multiple disease management strategies. Two non-conventional chemicals, ZnSO4 (10-4 mM) and oxalic acid (4 mM) were tested (alone as well as in combination with seeds bacterized with Pseudomonas syringae strain PUR46 and vermicompost substitution), for their ability to suppress collar rot of chickpea. ZnSO4 was more effective...

Chickpea (Cicer arietinum) is one of the world's major legume crops and suffers substantial damage from wilt disease incited by Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. ciceri (Padwick) with yield loss over 60 per cent. It is an important soil borne plant pathogen and is difficult to manage by application of chemical. Moreover, the chemical control is costly and leads to residual effect. In this book, an integrated approach using host plant resistance and integration of three components i.e., cultural (vermicompost amendment), chemical (ZnSO4 and Salicylic acid) and biological (seed bacterization with...