Fungal ecology of BLSB infected maize fields

Abstract

Screening of fungal population was done from the rhizosphere/rhizoplane of BLSB infected maize fields from different locality of District Bahraich. Ninteen species were isolated from rhizoplane and twenty­ three species from rhizosphere. Rhizoctonia solani and Aspergillus flavus were dominant in serial dilution whereas Aspergillus flavus was dominant by Warcup method.

Keywords

• Rhizosphere
• Rhizoplane
• Fungal population
• Maize
• BLSB
• Rhizoctonia so/ani