A Review: Organic Amendments of Soil for Management of Soil Borne Pathogens

Author: Yash Punia, Lovepreet Singh, Vipul Kumar and Toomula Ravinder Reddy

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Abstract

The harmful effect of chemical on living organisms and loss of chemical fungicides towards plant pathogens which attracted the attention towards organic amendments of soil for management of soil borne pathogens. Application of different organic amendments like animal waste, bone meal, blood meal, vermicompost and antagonists etc suppress the soil borne pathogens (Rhizoctonia spp., Sclerotinia spp. and Pythium spp. etc) as well as increase soil heath too. There are various methods like soil suppression, soil solarization, bio solarization, anaerobic disinfectants and bio fumigation several and more methods in organic amendments. This review mainly focuses on application of organic amendments of soil for management of soil borne pathogens. By using of soil amendments to control soil borne pathogens is very effective in result then chemical control. While organic amendments reduce plant pathogen populations, they result in a 1000-fold increase in soil microorganism populations after imple

Keywords

Organic amendments, soil borne pathogens, soil fertility, soil solarization, anaerobic disinfestation, bio-fumigation, soil suppression.

Conclusion

Organic amendments application in field control soil borne disease effectively as well as increase fertility of soil by increasing organic compound in soil. From many years chemical compound is using in field increased. Which effect soil fertility, ground water, animals and human health. There are many studies which focus on organic amendments application and culture methods like solarization, anaerobic soil disinfestation which reduce the soil borne pathogens in field by culture methods. Total dependency on chemicals will lead to resistance in pathogens but application of organic amendments doesn’t lead resistance in pathogen because of their board spectrum control of soil borne pathogens by increasing microbial colonies in soil, secretion of extracts, create resistance in plant toward pathogens, increase organic acid in soil which led to develop anaerobic condition in soil and creating competition with causal organisms etc. As we learn more about their potential benefits that organ

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Punia, Y., Singh, L., Kumar, V. and Reddy, T.R. (2021). A Review: Organic Amendments of Soil for Management of Soil Borne Pathogens. Biological Forum – An International Journal, 13(1): 368-374.