Dry root rot (DRR) caused by the fungus Rhizoctonia bataticola (Taub.) Butler, is an emerging disease in chickpea. The disease is often mistaken with other root rots like Fusarium wilt, collar rot and black root rot in chickpea. Therefore, its timely and specific detection is important. Current detection protocols are either based on mycological methods or on protocols involving DNA amplificati...

ABSTRACT Strain L324-92 is a novel Bacillus sp. with biological activity against three root diseases of wheat, namely take-all caused by Gaeumannomyces graminis var. tritici, Rhizoctonia root rot caused by Rhizoctonia solani AG8, and Pythium root rot caused mainly by Pythium irregulare and P. ultimum, that exhibits broad-spectrum inhibitory activity and grows at temperatures from 4 to 40 degree...

abstract valerian medicinal plant (valeriana officinalis) is a perennial succulent plant that is natural lenitive and good ingrained of diazepam. this study was conducted in order to identify the fungal agents of rhizome and root rot of valerian. infected plant samples that showed the symptoms of rotting and necrosis were collected from karaj and used in order to isolate disease agents. symptom...

Sheath blight is one of the most important fungal rice diseases worldwide as well in Indonesia, caused by Rhizoctonia solani Kuhn. Yield losses sheath disease tropics reached 6%. This research was conducted survey technique to measure incidence and severity on plants 13 (thirteen) locations representing 12 (twelve) districts Northern Sumatra, Indonesia. Variable values were found surveyed locat...

The antagonistic activity of three bacterial isolates namely Microbacterium terregens, Cellulosimicrobium cellulans and Bacillus amylollquefaciens was evaluated through direct confrontation method and filtrates culture against the growth of Fusarium solani, Fusarium oxysporum, Rhizoctonia solani and Phytophthra cactorum. All bacterial isolates showed the inhibition of the mycelia growth of the ...