Isolation and screening of microorganisms supressing seed germination in Striga Subbapurmath Prashant. S., Patil C. R.*, Jagadeesh K. S., Hiremath S. M., Dodamani M. B., Nadagoud B. T.** Dept. of Agril. Microbiology, College of Agriculture, Dharwad, UAS, Dharwad, Karnataka-580005 * Institute of Organic Farming, UAS, Dharwad, Karnataka-580005 ** ARS, Mudhol, Bagalkot, UAS, Dharwad, Karnataka Online published on 28 February, 2013. Abstract As many as 152 microbial isolates were obtained from the soil associated with Striga. Out of these, 42 were bacteria, 35 fungi, 37 actionmycetes and 39 belonged to fluorescent Pseudomonads. All isolates were screened for their ability to suppress germination of Striga seeds. Top Keywords Striga hermonthica, Biocontrol, Rhizobacteria, Parasitic weed. Top |