Fungicide resistance is reducing the effectiveness of fungicides in controlling plant diseases, leading to increase crop losses and the need for alternative control strategies. Addressing this issue requires careful fungicide use and the development of new management approaches....
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2023/v35i203813
Black pepper (Piper nigrum L.) is grown extensively across many parts of Tamil Nadu. Pepper production is greatly affected by the fungal wilt complex diseases. In this study, the major pepper growing regions of Tamil Nadu were surveyed for two wilt complex diseases viz., slow wil...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2023/v35i203816
A survey was conducted at different rice growing regions of Tamil Nadu such as Erode, Tanjore and Coimbatore. Among the areas surveyed the maximum disease incidence was recorded at Tanjore in the rice variety ADT 54 with the percent disease incidence of 50.23%. Initially one bact...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2023/v35i193725
Carrot is an important root vegetable which plays an important role in human health. Globally, Post harvest diseases are the major constraint in carrot production, especially soft rot which resulting in severe yield loss. Early diagnosis of these post-harvest diseases paves a way...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2023/v13i102700
K. Raja, M. Karthikeyan, I. Johnson, P. Latha & D. Saravanakumar·Advances in Research·2017
Plant growth promoting bacterial (PGPB) strains of Pseudomonas fluorescens were tested for their capacity to overcome the water stress under rice fallow condition in black gram plants. Among the different bacteria used, P. fluorescens TRRI-1 were exhibited the highest antagonisti...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2017/34227
Quorum sensing is a cell-to-cell communication mechanism that was reported in Rhizobium mayense S11R1, Pantoea dispersa YBB19B, and Paenibacillus illionoisensis YBB20 by the presence of N-acyl homoserine lactones. This study explored possible mechanisms for expressing plant growt...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2023/v35i193641
Groundnut leaf miner (Aproaerema modicella. D.) is an important leaf feeding insect in groundnut that significantly reduces the pod yield up to 50 per cent. The growth and development of this insect pest is closely associated with the abiotic weather parameters prevailing in a pa...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2023/v13i92501
Sheath blight is caused by Rhizoctonia solani which is known as a destructive disease and a major bottleneck for rice production in India as well as world. Eleven isolates of sheath blight pathogen were collected from major rice growing states such as Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Keral...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2021/v40i4231610
Grapes powdery mildew and downy mildew caused by Erysiphe necator and Plasmopara viticola respectively are the most devastating diseases worldwide resulting in significant loss of yield and quality. Epidemics of grapevine mildews are caused by airborne inocula such as conidia an...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2021/v33i2230677
Aims: An experiment was conducted to examine the effect of various concentrations of melatonin on post harvest weight loss and shelf life of three traditional banana varieties viz. Ney Poovan, Nendran and Red Banana. Study Design: Completely Randomized Design. Place and Duration...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2023/v13i102746
P. Ananthi, Karthikeyan , M., J. Shajith Basha, Revathy , N., M. Karthikeyan, I. Johnson, N. Revathy, N. Manikanda Boopathi, Patil Santosh Ganapati, Boopathi , N. Manikanda, Basha , J. Shajith, Johnson , I., Ananthi, P. & Ganapati , Patil Santosh·International Journal of Plant & Soil Science·2023
The rising use of fungicides in cucurbits are significant issue, there are insufficient data to support the various factors influencing fungicide usage pattern. In this survey, a structured questionnaire and sequential exploratory mixed design was used to gather information about...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2023/v35i193727
The present experiment was conducted to study the effect of preharvest fruit bagging on the physical parameters and shelf life of mango cv. Alphonso during 2023. Mango fruits were bagged 35 days after the fruit set with various types of bags viz: T1: Brown paper bag; T2: Double l...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2023/v13i102765