National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
Mycoparasitism by Trichoderma sp. is one of the important modes of action exhibited by biocontrol agents against host fungi including plant pathogenic ones. Its study in-vitro constitutes considerable importance while studying bio-efficacy of an antagonist against a fungal pathogen. At present there is no standard, rapid, easy and reliable method to study mycelial interaction between a possible mycoparasitic fungi and host. An easy, cheap, and rapid agar plate assisted slide culture technique is developed which facilitates the study of in-vitro mycoparasitism with ease. With the help of this technique mycoparasitism by a strain of Trichoderma sp. was studied against pathogenic Rhizoctonia solani and Fusarium oxysporium. A drastic mycoparasitism in the form of coiling and tightly sticking with occasional formation of appressoria like structures was observed while studying mycoparasitism with the help of this method.
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