Antagonistic potentials of seven rhizoshere soil fungi viz., Aspergillus flavus Link., A. fumigatus Fresen., A. niger Tiegh., A. terreus Thom., Penicillium sp., Trichoderma harzianum Refat. and T. viride Pers. were tested in opposition to six pathogenic fungi viz., Colletotrichum sp., Curvularia lunata, Fusarium moniliforme, F. oxysporum, F. semitectum and Phomopsis sp. isolated from different leaf spots and fruit rots of brinjal. Out of seven soil fungi, Trichoderma harzianum was found most effective to control the growth of all the test fungi in the study of colony interactions and effects of volatile and non-volatile metabolites. This fungus may be exploited commercially to biocontrol the diseases.
A total of 192, 14 days old as hatched broilers were fed ad libitum up to 56 days of age, on a control diet with 12% fish meal (FM) and 3 test diets; shrimp waste (SW) and/or marine waste (MW) and equal mixture of SW and MW completely replace dietary FM to have their effects on performance. Live weight and feed conversion improved and feed intake depleted on test diets than that on control. The test diets did not affect survivability of broilers. Complete replacement of FM by SW and/or MW reduced feed cost and production cost with increased profitability of raising broilers. Meat yield decreased on test SM and MW diets, but equal mixture of SM and MW, gave similar meat yield to that on control. It was concluded that equal mixture of SM and MW might be better, economic and efficient substitute of FM.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/bjas.v40i1-2.10785Bang. J. Anim. Sci. 2011. 40 (1-2): 18-22
Twenty species of fungi associated with blight symptom of different plant parts of Tagetes erecta L. and T. patula L. have been described. The associated fungi were Alternaria alternata (Fr.) Keissler, Aspergillus flavus Link, A. fumigatus Fresenius, A. niger van Tieghem, Bipolaris australiens is (M.B. Ellis) Tsuda &Ueyama, Chaetomium globosum Kunze, Cladosporium elatum (Harz) Nannf., Corynespora cambrensis M. B. Ellis, Curvularia brachyspora Boedijn, C. fallax Boedijn, C. lunata (Wakker) Boedijn, C. stapeliae(du Plessis) Hughes &du Plessis, Epicoccum purpuras cens Ehrenb. ex Schlecht,, Fusarium semitectum Berk. & Rav., Monochaetia ceratoniae (Sousa da Camera) Sutton, Nigrospora panici Zimm., Penicillium italicum Wehmer, Rhizopus stolonifer (Ehrenb.: Fr.) Vuill, Trichoderma viride Pers. and Trichothecium roseum Link.
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