Host range of Alternaria alternata - A potential fungal biocontrol agents for waterhyacinth in India

Crop Protection

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1083-1085

  Babu, R Mohan ^a   Sajeena, A ^a   Seetharaman, K ^a   Vidhyasekaran, P ^a   Rangasamy, P ^a   Som Prakash, M ^a   Raja, A Senthil ^a   Biji, K R ^a  

^a TAMIL NADU AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Alternaria alternata; Eichhornia crassipes; Host range; Pistia stratiotes

Indexed keywords

BIOCONTROL AGENT; DISEASE CONTROL; FUNGAL DISEASE; HOST RANGE;

BIOLOGICAL CONTROL AGENT; HOST RANGE; INDIA; NATIVE SPECIES; WEED CONTROL;

INDIA;

ALTERNARIA ALTERNATA; EICHHOMIA CRASSIPES; EICHHORNIA CRASSIPES; PISTIA STRATIOTES;

EID: 0036897422     PISSN: 02612194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0261-2194(02)00076-5     Document Type: Article

References (7)

1. Charudattan, R., 1989. Assessment of efficacy of mycoherbicide candidates. In: Derfose, E.S. (Ed.), Proceedings of the VII International Symposium on Biological Control of Weeds, 6-11 March 1989. Institute Sperimentale per la Patologia Vegetale, Ministero dell' Agricoltura e delle Foreste, Rome, pp. 455-464.
2. Dhingra, O.D., Sinclair, J.B., 1994. Basic Plant Pathology Methods. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, USA.
3. Elwakil, M.A., Sadik, E.A., Fayzaka, E.A., Shabana, Y.M., 1990. Biological control of water hyacinth with fungal plant pathogens in Egypt. In: Delfosse, E.S., Scoot, R.R. (Eds.), Proceedings of the VIII International Symposium on Biological Control of Weeds, 2-7 February 1992. Lincoln University, Canterbury, New Zealand, pp. 483-497.
4. Martinez Jimenez, M., Gutierrez Lopez, E., 2001. Host range of Cercospora piaropi and Acremonium zonatum, potential fungal Biocontrol agents for water hyacinth in Mexico. Phytoparasitica 29 (2), 175-177.
5. Nag Raj, J.R., Ponnappa, K.M., 1970. Blight of water hyacinth caused by Alternaria alternata sp. Nov. Trans. Br. Mycol. Soc. 55 (1), 123-130.
6. Shabana, Y.M., Charudattan, R, Elwakil, M.A., 1995. First record of Alternaria eichhorniae and Alternaria alternata unwater hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes) in Egypt. Plant Dis. 79 (3), 319.
7. Wapshere, A., 1974. A strategy for evaluating the safety of organisms for biological weed control. Ann. Appl. Biol. 77, 201-211.