Impact of Land and Water Management practices on Root Rot Complex influencing Lentil performance

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Abstract

Lentil plays a pivotal role in food and nutritional security of large scale Indian, which is still by and large vegetarian in food habit. Root rot complex of lentils are sever disease, with a potential to devastate entire crop. An invstigation was undertaken to study the dynamic of root rot  in the rice - lentil – mungbean cropping systems, managed under conventional and zero tilled condition with 04 water regime based on IW:CPE, at ICAR- Research Complex for Eastern Region, Patna, Bihar, India during 2016-17 to 2018-19.  Rhizoctonia solani and Fusarium oxysporum were the  fungus responsible for root rot incidence. Results reveled that if the disese incidence (%) is more 65% the yield penalty will be more than 80% as compare to the normal crop season. Root rot complex can damage more at advanced stage as compare to seedling or early grorth stages.  Best way to manage root rot disease complex are adapting crop rotation, sowing resistance varieties along withprophylactic seed treatment.

 Keywords: Fusarium oxysporum, Land and water management, Lentil, Rhizoctoniasolani, Root rot complex, Yield penalty, ETL