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Management of Fungal Diseases of Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) through Plant Growth Promoting Actinobacteria and Their Secondary Metabolites

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Title Management of Fungal Diseases of Chickpea
(Cicer arietinum L.) through Plant Growth Promoting
Actinobacteria and Their Secondary Metabolites
 
Creator Gopalakrishnan, S
Srinivas, V
Sambangi, P
Ankati, S
 
Subject Pest Management
Chickpea
Food and Nutrition
Plant Growth
Plant Disease
 
Description Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) is an important pulse crop and
ranks third in overall production after bean and pea on a world
basis. It is grown in 33 countries over an area of about 11.5 million
hectares (Bidyarani et al. 2016). Chickpea is mainly used
as food because of its high protein (12−31%) and carbohydrate
(52−71%) contents (Mergaand Haji 2019). Global yields of chickpea
(968 kg ha−1) have been stagnant for the past five decades
in spite of using various conventional and molecular breeding
approaches and extensive use of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides
(FAOSTAT 2014). Productivity of chickpea may be considerably
improved if the adverse effects of biotic stresses (such
as Ascochyta blight, dry root rot, Fusarium wilt, collar rot, and
Botrytis gray mold) are addressed. Management of fungal diseases
of chickpea is difficult, as no single control measure is
fully effective. Some of the control measures such as advanced
sowing date, solarization of soil, use of pathogen-free seed and
fungicide-treated seed are usually employed to control the diseases,
but with limited success. The use of resistant cultivar is the
most efficient control measure but the effectiveness of disease
resistance is restricted by the occurrence of several races of the
pathogen. Hence, there is a need to use biological options to manage
plant pathogens.
 
Publisher Taylor & Francis
 
Contributor Awasthi, L P
 
Date 2021-05
 
Type Book Section
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/11807/1/Book%20chapter.pdf
Gopalakrishnan, S and Srinivas, V and Sambangi, P and Ankati, S (2021) Management of Fungal Diseases of Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) through Plant Growth Promoting Actinobacteria and Their Secondary Metabolites. In: Biopesticides in Organic Farming: Recent Advances. Taylor & Francis, pp. 61-63.