Efficacy of Sulfur With Benomyl For Reducing Effect Fungi of Fusarium solani Infecting Rice
Efficacy of Sulfur With Benomyl For Reducing Effect Fungi of Fusarium solani Infecting Rice
Qasim H.A. Aljboori* and Saadoon Murad Saadoon
ABSTRACT
In recent years, the importance of sustainable agriculture has been increased and plant diseases management has become one of the most important challenges in agriculture. Moreover, plant diseases remain a major factor limiting agricultural production. F. solani is one of the most important pathogens that causes rot disease in rice and affects plant growth. Many Fusarium species can infect rice plants and affect its growth, in addition to producing various mycotoxins that are dangerous to humans and animals. Therefore, a study was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of four levels of agricultural sulphur (0,100,200 and 300 g/m2)and the fungicide Benomyl (100 ppm) against F. solani fungus infecting three varieties of rice (Anbar33,Yasmeen and Mishkhab2) grown in Iraq. The study results showed that sulphur reduced the F. solani infecting rice, with the most effective treatment being the (200) g/m2 treatment compared to the (0,100,300) g/m2 treatments. The results showed that varieties had different infection levels with the Anbar33 variety having the lowest infection rate, reaching having the lowest infection severity (18.25%) and Yasmeen variety was more susceptible to the pathogenic fungus F. solani infection severity (32.08%). A study proved that sulphur was effective in reducing the Effect of F. solani to an acceptable level or at least to a level where further control with the fungicide Benomyl is more successful and less expensive.
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