Effect of Fusarium moniliforme Cultural Filtrate on Seed Quality Parameters of Paddy Cultivars

Author: M. Yellamelli*, M.J. Patil, T.S. Pillai and L.B. Singh

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Abstract

Fusarium moniliforme is one of the important seed borne fungi responsible for bakane or foot rot disease in paddy in india as well as across the globe. The study was conducted at the Plant Pathology Section, College of Agriculture, Nagpur in 2020 to find out the level of infection of F. moniliforme against seed quality parameters viz, germination per cent, shoot and root length and seedling vigour in four different varieties of paddy maintaining three replications by paper towel method. The results revealed that, higher seed quality parameters was observed with MTU-1010 cultivar recorded germination per cent (62.00%), shoot length (6.32 cm), root length (12.50 cm) and seedling vigour (1166.84) in inoculated seeds with F. moniliforme culture. While it was 84.25 per cent, 7.40 cm, 12.57 cm and 1682.47 respectively in uninoculated seeds. Least germination per cent, shoot length, root length and seedling vigour in inoculated seeds were 58.00 per cent, 4.11 cm, 7.19 cm and 655.40 respective

Keywords

Paddy, Fusarium moniliforme, Paper towel, Seed quality parameters.