Fungitoxic effect of biocontrol agent and botanicals on seed mycoflora and seed germination of oilseed crops.

摘要

The results revealed that neem extract showed 93.7% inhibition of the seed mycoflora thereby enhancing the seed germination as compared to Ricinus plant extract (87.5%) and T. viride (62.5%) which showed that the culture filtrate of the antagonistic fungus T. viride was also efficient to decrease the growth of mycoflora but with levels less than plant extracts. Findings of this study confirmed that plant extract can be used as natural biopesticides to control mycoflora and enhanced the seed germination of different oilseed crops to reduce the dependence on the synthetic fungicides.