Effect of potential bioinoculants and organic manures on root-rot and wilt, growth, yield and quality of organically grown Coleus forskohlii in a semiarid tropical region of Bangalore (India)

Plant Pathology

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 700-708

  Singh, R ^a   Kalra, A ^a   Ravish, B S ^a   Divya, S ^a   Parameswaran, T N ^a   Srinivas, K V N S ^a   Bagyaraj, D J ^b  

^a CSIR CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF MEDICINAL AND AROMATIC PLANTS   (India)

^b Centre for Natural Biological Resources and Community Development   (India)

Author keywords

Fusarium chlamydosporum; Organic cultivation; Organic fertilizers; Ralstonia solanacearum; Root rot wilt

Indexed keywords

ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZA; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; CROP YIELD; CULTIVATION; DICOTYLEDON; DISEASE INCIDENCE; GROWTH RATE; MANURE; MEDICINAL PLANT; ORGANIC FARMING; ROOT ROT; SEMIARID REGION; WILT;

BANGALORE; INDIA; KARNATAKA;

ARBUSCULAR; AZADIRACHTA INDICA; COLEUS; FUNGI; FUSARIUM; FUSARIUM CHLAMYDOSPORUM; GLOMUS FASCICULATUM; PLECTRANTHUS BARBATUS; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; RALSTONIA SOLANACEARUM;

EID: 84864004175     PISSN: 00320862     EISSN: 13653059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3059.2011.02567.x     Document Type: Article

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