Relative effectiveness of different methods of application of nematicides against rice root-knot nematode in paddy under pot and field conditions
摘要
The present study was undertaken to standardize the method of application of nematicides in rice cropping system. The rice plants grown in the soil infested with ~ 1600 Meloidogyne graminicola juveniles/kg soil developed hook-shaped terminal galls on the roots (104 galls/root system). The nematode inflicted a significant decline in the plant length (28–32%), tillers (36%), panicle (34%) and grain yield (28%) of rice cv. PB-1509 over uninoculated control. The seed treatment (ST), root-dip (RD) and soil application (SA) of nematicides suppressed the galling (3–18% and 4–42%), and reproduction of M. graminicola (3–48%), and promoted the plant growth (4–18%), and grain yield (6–23%) over inoculated control. The overall order of effectiveness of the nematicides under pot condition was: fluopyram > carbofuran > iprodione > phorate > chlorpyrifos. The performance of fluopyram was also evaluated in a field infested with ~ 1800 J2 of M. graminicola/kg soil. The rice cv. PB-1509 grown in the infested plots developed 128 terminal galls/root system and exhibited 23% decrease in the grain yield. The RD and SA of fluopyram significantly reduced the disease incidence (18 and 49%), galling (16 and 44%), egg mass production (11 and 36%), fecundity (13 and 31%), reproduction factor (39–77% and 48–85%), and soil population of M. graminicola (10–15% and 23–45%), and significantly increased the grain yield (11 and 23%, respectively). The soil application was found most effective, and suppressed the disease by 36–49% and improved the rice yield by 23% over control, whereas the ST did not induce significant effects.