Beschreibung:
Dr. Hemant Dattatraya Pawar is working as Junior Research Assistant in Department of Plant Pathology, Dr. B.S. Konkan Krishi Vidyapeeth, Dapoli (M.S.) India. He has awarded M. Sc. (Agri) in 2010 and Ph.D. (Agri.) during 2015 in the discipline of Plant Pathology He has experience over 9 years in research, teaching and extension education.
The field experiment was conducted at the department of Agronomy, College of Agriculture, Dapoli. Dist - Ratnagiri. In vitro evaluation of various fungicides indicated that Carbendazim (0.1%), Mancozeb (0.25%) and Hexaconazole (0.1%), were found very effective in inhibiting the growth of Drechslera maydis causing leaf blight of sweet corn.The crop sown on the 5th November (D1; 45 MW) showed fewer incidences of disease (15.87%) and found very effective treatment in reducing the disease. The treatment T1 (Carbendazim 0.1%) significantly reduced disease incidence (12.60%).None of the varieties of sweet corn was found to be immune or resistant to the disease.