Chickpea is an essential crop for protein nutrition and is grown around the world in rain-fed
conditions. However, chickpea cultivation is under threat due to emerging diseases favored …

This study reports the potential of a soil bacterium, Bacillus subtilis strain SPB1, to produce
lipopeptide biosurfactants. Firstly, the crude lipopeptide mixture was tested for its inhibitory …

Macrophomina phaseolina is the most devastating pathogen which causes charcoal rot and
root rot diseases in various economically important crops. Three strains M. phaseolina 1156 …

Mungbean root rot caused by Rhizoctonia bataticola (Taub.) Butler is the most devastating
disease inflicting yield loss up to 60%. The use of beneficial antagonist, viz., Streptomyces …

Abstract Rhizoctonia bataticola (Taub.) Butler {Pycnidial stage: Macrophomina phaseolina
(Tassi) Goid} is a soil inhabiting fungus which is a serious threat to more than 500 plant …

Sheath blight (Rhizoctonia solani) causes severe loss in the production of rice in India.
Twenty five (25) isolates were collected from different parts of India. Morphological and …

Wet root rot caused by Rhizoctonia solani is one of the important diseases of chickpea
(Cicer arietinum). Morphological and pathogenic variability of 50 isolates of R. solani …

Sixty-one isolates of Macrophomina phaseolina were characterised on the basis of different
morphological characters to study the variability in the population. PCA analysis extracted …

Rhizoctonia solani is a plant pathogenic fungus which is the causal organism of sheath
blight of rice. Yield losses due to the sheath blight, caused by R. solani Kuhn is reported to …

The purpose of the book Postharvest Plant Pathology is to provide its readers recent
developments and updated comprehensive information on postharvest pathogens & …