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Banda University of Agriculture and Technology, Banda

Banda University of Agriculture and Technology, Banda has been established as a full-fledged State University, having unique honour of being the “First Agricultural University of Bundelkhand Region”. The University was notified vide Government Order No. 301/79-V-1-10-1 (Ka) 27-2009 Lucknow and established on 2nd March 2010 under Uttar Pradesh Agriculture University Act (Sanshodhan) 1958 Gazette-Adhiniyam 2010. Initially it was named as “Manyawar Shri Kanshiram Ji University of Agriculture and Technology, Banda”, which was changed as “Banda University of Agriculture and Technology, Banda” vide Uttar Pradesh Agriculture University Act (Sanshodhan) Adhiniyam, 2014, No. 1528(2)/LXXIX-V-1-14-1(Ka)-13-2014 dated 4th December 2014. The University has been established for the development of the agriculture and allied sectors in the Uttar Pradesh on the whole and Bundelkhand region in particular. It is committed to serve the Bundelkhand region with trinity concept, i.e. complete integration of teaching, research and extension for the development of agriculture and allied sectors in order to ensure food security and enhance socio-economic status of inhabitants. State Government of Uttar Pradesh has assigned the University with the responsibilities of (a) human resource generation and development, (b) generation and perfection of technologies, and (c) their dissemination to the farmers, orchardists and dairy farmers in the Chitrakoot Dham and Jhansi divisions. The Chirtrkoot Dham Division consists of four districts, namely Banda, Chitrakoot (Karvi), Mahoba and Hamirpur whereas Jhansi Division consists of Jhansi, Lalitpur and Jalaun (Orai) districts.

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Subject: Plant Pathology × Author: Jaisval, Girijesh Kumar × End date: 2023 × Start date: 2022 ×
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    “Evaluation of Microbial Consortia for Plant Growth Promotion and Management of Fusarium Wilt of Chickpea”
    (Banda University of Agriculture and Technology, Banda, 2022-09-09) Jaisval, Girijesh Kumar; Singh, Vivek
    Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) is one of the most important pulse crop of Bundelkhand region of Uttar Pradesh. Wilt disease caused by Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. ciceris is one of the major constraints in production of chickpea in the regions and causes 10% annual yield loss (Singh and Dahiya, 1973). The microbial consortium is a group of species of microorganisms that act together as a community and synergistic way. Indigenous isolates of bacterial bio-agents viz; Pseudomonas fluorescens, Bacillus subtilis and Mesorhizobium ciceri were isolated from root nodules and rhizospheric field collected chickpea field of Crop research farm of the University and identified on the basis of morphological characters and biochemical tests. Potential isolates of fungal antagonists such as T. harzianum and T. viride were collected from Plant Pathology Laboratory of BUAT, Banda. Indigenous fungal and bacterial bio-agents were tested in vitro for their efficacy against pathogen. Among Six native fungal antagonists T. harzianum (TH-2) was found highly effective against the pathogen, which inhibited maximum growth of the pathogen 67.03% followed by T. harzianum (TH-3) which inhibited 66.85% mycelia growth of pathogen. Among three bacterial isolates, P. fluorescens showed maximum inhibition growth of pathogen (63.98%) followed by B. subtilis (48.70%) and M. ciceri (36.93%). The compatibility of potential bio-agents was also tested through dual culture technique. All the bacterial bio-agents found compatible with each other and the fungal antagonist T. harzianum (TH-3) found potential against pathogen and compatible with all the bacterial bioagents. The bio-agents which found effective and compatible with each other were selected for development of consortia. Laboratory studies were conducted to study the effect of pH (4.5- 9.0) and temperature (20-400C) on colony growth of pathogen and bio-agents. In study of the effect of pH the fungal antagonist T. harzianum was attained maximum growth (80 mm) at pH 6.0 whereas the pathogen (Foc) and P. fluorescens attained highest growth 72.50 mm and 56.80 mm respectively at pH 6.5. While B. subtilis and M. ciceri both grew best at neutral pH 7 with 75.50 mm and 18.5 mm respectively. In study of the effect of temperature on the growth of microbes, the pathogen (Foc), T. harzianum and M. ciceri exhibited maximum growth 65.33 mm, 80 mm and 37.83 mm respectively at 280C, while B. subtilis and P. fluorescens exhibited maximum growth 76.67 mm and 58.17 mm respectively at 32°C. A pot culture experiment was conducted under net house condition during Rabi season 2021-22 with 14 treatments and three replications in CRD to evaluate the efficacy of microbial consortia for plant growth promotion and management of chickpea wilt. The results revealed that the treatment (T13) in which seed treatment with T. harzianum + B. subtilis + P. fluorescens + M. ciceri found most effective which enhanced maximum root and shoot length 40.10 and 48.72 cm respectively and that treatment also provided 100% seed germination maximum reduction (75.11%) in wilt incidence.