Abstract
Methanolic extracts of forty plant species commonly growing across India were collected and have been screened for antisporulant activity against Sclerospora graminicola (Sacc.) Schroet., the causative agent of pearl millet downy mildew. The collection represented 38 genera of 30 families. The methanolic extracts of nine species did not show any effect, whereas the activity of the extracts of Clematis gouriana, Evolvulus alsinoides, Mimusops elengi, Allium sativum and Piper nigrum were commensurable to that of the marketed botanical fungicides. The extracts of 11 species (Agave americana, Artemisia pallens, Citrus sinensis, Dalbergia latifolia, Helianthus annus, Murraya koenigii, Ocimum basilicum, Parthenium hysterophorus, Tagetes erecta, Thuja occidentalis and Zingiber offinale) exhibited remarkable antisporulant effect even after 10-fold dilution of the crude extracts while in the case of remaining 15 plants the crude extracts loosed activity after 10-fold dilution. The antisporulant activity of commercialised Azadirachta preparation (Nutri-Neem) was more pronounced than that of Reynutria based one (Milsana) and Sabadilla (veratrin), however, these botanical preparations held off the extracts of C. gouriana and E. alsinoides and synthetic fungicides.
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