Investigation into fungi causing deterioration of different parts of the shoot have been made by Hogg and Hudson (1966), Hudson and Webster (1958), Kamal and Singh (1970), Webster (1957) and Yadava (1966). Such studies on the modified part of the shoot are scarce and scanty. Undoubtedly, some fragmentary reports in connection with the floral infection of one or the other part of the flower, though available; yet are the local interest (Plate and Schineider, 1966; Schonbeck, 1967 and Welfswinkee, 1966). The present study is an attempt to explore the organisms associated with the...
Sunday, 19 August 2018
Saturday, 4 August 2018
Mushroom Awareness Program at Ayodhya (Part-2)
Just like the year 2016, this year too we had organized a mushroom awareness programme under the banner of Sri Laxman Prasad Pyare Lal Agro Products, Ayodhya during the month of February to March, 2018, In which many talented students of various institutions have participated. Our aim toward this programme was to develop research aptitude among the students. During this programme, the students were not only acquainted with the experiments going on in the mushroom unit but also they were made familiar with the various dimensions of mushroom production technology. The experiments based...
Thursday, 2 August 2018
Notes on an unrecorded fungal disease of Manihot esculenta
During November, 1978, The author collected leaves of Cassava (Manihot esculenta) Crantz severely infected by a leaf blight disease from a kitchen garden at Bareilly. On examination, the associated fungus was identified as Aspergillus niger Van Tieghem. This appears to be a new host-fungal association for India. The specimen has been deposited with the Department of Botany, K.S. Saket Post Graduate College, Faizabad under No. RSK-299. The disease appears along the midrib of the leaves on the ventral side as irregular narrow light gray spots which enlarge with the advance of time. In...
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