Abstract            Volume:12  Issue-9  Year-2024         Original Research Articles

Online ISSN : 2347 - 3215 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcret@gmail.com

The current study on diversity of associated fungi was conducted during 2022-2023 at Agriculture field, Baba Farid College, Bathinda, Punjab. Different samples of vegetable crops i.e. cabbage, brinjal, tomato, radish and spinach was collected. The isolation and identification of fungi from collected samples was conducted at Plant Pathology Laboratory, Baba Farid College using standard blotter paper and Agar plate methods. The results revealed that total thirteen fungal species belongs to 8 fungal genera were isolated and identified. Maximum 10 fungi were identified in Cabbage followed by Brinjal (09), Tomato (7), Spinach (5) and Radish (4), respectively. The percent incidence of fungal species was also recorded on both blotter paper and agar plate method. The result ranges from 0 to 58.3±2.60 (blotter paper) and 0 to 56.6±4.05 (agar plate) respectively. The highest colonization frequency percentage was recorded in Fusarium oxysporum (58.3±2.60; 56.6±4.05), followed by Aspergillus flavus (50.3±1.85; 47.3±2.02) using both methods respectively. Therefore this study will helps during further studies on identification of proper control measures against isolated fungi in vegetable crops.

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