Abstract
The current investigation deals with the isolation, identification and testing the antagonistic ability of Trichoderma spp. on Macrophomina phaseolina under in vitro and in vivo conditions. The locally isolated biocontrol agents were subjected to morphological and molecular identification and further research was carried out to test all the biocontrol agents. T. harzianum was found to be highly effective in dual confrontation test, restricting the fungal growth by 67.59% as compared to control. Various secondary metabolites of Trichoderma spp. were studied with inverted plate and culture filtrate assay. Mycoparasitism and antibiosis were also examined using light and Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) which indicated that all the Trichoderma spp. restricted the growth by coiling around the host hyphae and through secondary metabolites. In vivo experiments showed that all the treatments significantly reduced the disease severity and intensity where T. harzianum was found to be the most effective biocontrol agent (decreased upto 72.88 and 60.24%). Nevertheless, T. harzianum could be used as a potent indigenous biocontrol agent against dry root rot which also helped to reduce its deleterious effect on the host plant.
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