Impact of IPM practices on microbial population and disease development in transplanted and direct-seeded rice.

ABSTRACT: Integrated pest management (IPM) is a comprehensive approach to managing diseases, focusing on combining various strategies to reduce pathogen populations effectively and in an environmentally conscious way. We investigated the effects of IPM on beneficial microbial populations and its relationship with pathogen populations in both direct-seeded rice (DSR) and transplanted rice (TR) systems. This study demonstrates that IPM practices have significantly higher populations of beneficial microbes, such as Trichoderma harzianum and Pseudomonas fluorescens, and lower level of the pathogen Fusarium verticillioides compared to non-IPM (farmer practices). The average mean population of T. harzianum was 6.38 × 10³ CFU/g in IPM compared to 3.22 × 10³

SUBMITTER: Khokhar MK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11323746 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature