Egg Mass Mycoflora of Meloidogyne incognita in Assam

Abstract

Mycoflora i.e. fungi are classified as pathogenic, non-pathogenic, saprophytic, predator and parasitic etc. Some are pathogenic to plants; some are antagonistic towards pathogen and some are beneficial which increases resistance in plant against pathogen. In soil, fungi control pathogen including nematodes like Meloidigyne spp. are known as nematophagous fungi and that comprise more than 200 taxonomically diverse species. Meloidigyne spp is sedentary plant parasitic nematode and laid their eggs in gelatinous matrix (called as eggmass) which are exposed on rhizoplane. However, such exposed egg masses are heavily colonized by micro flora and become an important factor in finding the nematode antagonists (Kok et al., 2001). Now a day’s efforts has been put for International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences ISSN: 2319-7706 Volume 8 Number 01 (2019) Journal homepage: http://www.ijcmas.com