Macrophomina phaseolina is a fungal pathogen with a host range of more than 500 plant families; inciting a stem cancer disease in many crops that is often referred to as charcoal rot, due to the charcoal type coloration imparted to the colonized plant tissues.
How effective is biological control among other management strategies for Macrophomina??
Though there are other management practices only Biological control is one of ecofriendly method where we can stop the growth of pathogen. Sclerotia one of the propagating structure from this fungus have to be destoyed by using different bioagents like bacteria,fungi and actinomyces.Recent evidence tells us Trichoderma spp.is one of the bioagent to suppress the growth of pathogen.But failure comes from lack of awareness program and formulations for bioagents.Though a lot of Research is established but there is no progress at field level.
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