Abstract:
For the last many years pathologist around the world are trying to evolve
non-monetary and environment friendly methods to control the soil bom
pathogens. Pakistan is an agricultural country with poor yield of cash crops due
to many environmental constraints, the pathogens, been the most important,
However, in our country this aspect of scientific research has not yet attained
due attention. Therefore the present investigation was carried out for the
biological control of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. ciceri the cause of chickpea
wilt to achieve this goal, soil solarization technique was exploited by using
tarping single and double layer polyethylene sheets. Both techniques were
found effective for the control of Fusarium oxysporum f sp. ciceri however,
desirable results for the control of the target pathogen were achieved under
double layer of polyethylene sheet. It seems to be due to high temperature
achieved under this treatment, as Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. ciceri remained
unable to tolerate the situation. This cultural method may prove effective
against, the control of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. ciceri for field application in
our agro-eco systems and will be helpful to save a huge amount of foreign
exchange spent for the import of fungicides.
