Antifungal Activity of Medicinal Plants Metabolites Against Collar Rot of Chickpea Caused by Sclerotium rolfsii

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• Volume 4,Issue 6,Nov.,2017

Year:

2017

Type of Publication:

Article

Keywords:

Medicinal Plant Extract, Ashwagandha, Chickpea, Sclerotium rolfsii, Collar Rot

Authors:

Zope, A. V.; Rakhonde, O. S.; Awadhiya, G. K.

Journal:

IJRAS

Volume:

4

Number:

6

Pages:

364-367

Month:

November

ISSN:

2348-3997

Abstract:

Under laboratory condition, the fungitoxicity of alcohol extract of medicinal plants against Sclerotium rolfsii significantly varied with concentration and time intervals. All plant extracts were inhibitory to the mycelial growth of Sclerotium rolfsii. As concentration of extracts decreased, the effectiveness of extracts found to be slower in inhibiting mycelial growth. Therefore, maximum growth inhibition of S. rolfsii was recorded at 1000 μg ml-1 concentration in all cases. The extracts at 250 μg ml-1 concentration were failed to inhibit the mycelial growth of the pathogens. At this concentration, Ashwagandha leaf, Bawchi seed and Kali haldi root extracts were found to inhibit the mycelial growth of S. rolfsii. Ashwagandha recorded maximum average per cent inhibition of mycelial growth of S. rolfsii i.e. 25.818, 20.48 and 18.878 per cent at 1000, 500 and 250 μg ml-1 concentration, respectively.

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